Institute of Applied Biochemistry

The Institute of Applied Biochemistry is a research laboratory and bioweapons production facility located in Omutninsk, Kirov Oblast.^[1]

History[]

For a time in the 1980s, the facility was directed by Ken Alibek.^[2]

Discoveries[]

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 Soviet biological weapons program
Weaponized agents	Smallpox Anthrax Plague Botulism Brucellosis Glanders Q fever Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B Tularemia VEE Marburg Wheat stem rust Rice blast
Researched agents	AHF BHF Bird flu CHIKV Dengue fever EEE Hantavirus Lassa fever Melioidosis Newcastle disease Plague Potato blight Psittacosis Ricin RVF Rinderpest Typhus WEE Yellow fever
Operations and projects
Facilities and test sites	Biopreparat Stepnagorsk Scientific and Technical Institute Institute of Ultra Pure Biochemical Preparations VECTOR Institute of Applied Biochemistry Kirov bioweapons production facility Obolensk bioweapons research facility Military Compound 19 Aralsk-7 (Vozrozhdeniya Island) Institute of Virus Preparations Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services
Bioweaponeers	Kanatjan Alibekov (Ken Alibek) Vladimir Pasechnik Sergei Popov Yuri Ovchinnikov Nikolai Ustinov
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