Institute of Applied Biochemistry

The Institute of Applied Biochemistry is a research laboratory and bioweapons production facility located in Omutninsk, Kirov Oblast.^[1] For a time in the 1980s, the facility was directed by Ken Alibek.^[2]

Wild rodents like rats that live in the woods outside the factory are chronically infected with the "Schu-4 military strain" of tularemia due to a "small leak" in a basement pipe found in the twilight years of the USSR to be dripping a viral suspension into the ground.^[2]

References

^ "Omutninsk". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b Preston, Richard (9 March 1998). "THE BIOWEAPONEERS". pp. 52-65. The New Yorker.

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[gsomut-1] "Omutninsk". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 4 February 2021.

[rpbio-2] Preston, Richard (9 March 1998). "THE BIOWEAPONEERS". pp. 52-65. The New Yorker.

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v t e Soviet program of biological weapons
Weaponized agents	Smallpox Anthrax Plague Botulism Brucellosis Glanders Q fever Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B Tularemia VEE Marburg Wheat stem rust Rice blast Polonia
Researched agents	AHF BHF Bird flu CHIKV Dengue fever EEE Hantavirus Lassa fever Melioidosis VND Plague Potato blight Psittacosis Ricin RVF Rinderpest Typhus WEE Yellow fever
Operations and projects	Project Bonfire Project Factor
Facilities and test sites	BIOPREPARAT Scientific Experimental and Production Base VECTOR Institute of Applied Biochemistry Laboratory B Berdsk Zagorsk NPO Biosintez Sverdlovsk-19 [ru] Aralsk-7 Institute of Virus Preparations Laboratory No. 1
Scientists	Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky Kanatjan Alibekov Vladimir Pasechnik Sergei Popov Yuri Ovchinnikov Igor Domaradsky [ru] Nikolai Ustinov Alexander Catsch Pyotr Burgasov [ru]
Accidents	Sverdlovsk anthrax leak Aral smallpox incident
Related topics	Biological agent Biological warfare (BW) Biological Weapons Convention Entomological warfare U.S. biological weapons program History of biological warfare Sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance