Institute of Applied Biochemistry

Laboratory in Omutninsk, Kirov, Russia

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

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

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Soviet program of biological weapons

Weaponized agents|

* Smallpox
* ANTHRAX
* Plague
* Botulism
* Brucellosis
* Glanders
* Q
* SEB
* Tularemia
* VEE
* MARV
* Red rust
* Rice blast
* Polonia

Researched agents|

* AHF
* AVIAN
* BHF
* CHIKV
* CCHF
* DENGUE
* EEE
* FMDV
* Hantavirus
* Lassa fever
* Melioidosis
* VND
* Plague
* Potato blight
* Penicillium
* Psittacosis
* Ricin
* RVF
* Rinderpest
* Typhus
* WEE
* Yellow fever
* ZIKV

Operations and projects|

* Project Bonfire
* Project Factor
* Kamera
* Ekologiya

Facilities and test sites|

* BIOPREPARAT
* SNOPB
* VECTOR
* Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene in Kirov
* Laboratory B
* Berdsk
* 48-CNII
* BIOSINTZ
* Sverdlovsk-19 [ru]
* Aralsk-7
* Institute of Virus Preparations
* Laboratory No. 1
* Volsk-1

Administrators|

* Lavrentiy Beria
* Yakov Fishman

Scientists|

* Kanatjan Alibekov
* Hans Born
* Pyotr Burgasov [ru]
* Alexander Catsch
* Igor Domaradsky [ru]
* Elena Fidler
* Yuri Ovchinnikov
* Vladimir Pasechnik
* Sergei Popov
* Nikolay Ressovsky
* Nikolai Ustinov
* Ivan Velikanov
* Marina Voroshilova
* Zinaida Yermolyeva

Accidents|

* Sverdlovsk anthrax leak
* Aral smallpox incident
* Aral ecological collapse

Related topics|

* Biological agent
* Biological warfare (BW)
* Biological Weapons Convention
* Entomological warfare
* U.S. biological weapons program
* History of biological warfare
* Sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance

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