Soviet biological weapons program

former island in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

former Soviet physician, microbiologist, and biological warfare expert

1979 accidental release of anthrax in the Soviet Union

Soviet biologist (1900–1981)

nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of Russia

Kantubek (; ) is a ghost town on Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea. The town is still found on maps but was abandoned in 1992 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It has since been demolished, and there are plans to make the area a national park. Kantubek used to have a population of approximately 1,500 and housed scientists and employees of the Soviet Union's top-secret Aralsk-7 biological weapons research and test site.

island on Lake Seliger, Russia

biology reseach institution in Russia

The All-Union Science Production Association Biopreparat (, , ) was a Soviet agency created in April 1974, which spearheaded the largest and most sophisticated offensive biological warfare program known. It was a vast, ostensibly civilian, network employing 30–40,000 personnel and incorporating five major military-focused research institutes, numerous design and instrument-making facilities, three pilot plants and five dual-use production plants. The network pursued major offensive research and development programs with genetically engineered microbial strains to be resistant to an array of an

military unit

smallpox outbreak from a Soviet bioweapon test

secret research facility

bioweapons program from 1920s to 1990s

Soviet biologist (1937–2001)

Soviet bioorganic chemist (1934–1988)

German radiochemist