Kantubek

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Kantubek
Kantubek Location in Uzbekistan
Coordinates: 45°09′17″N 59°20′06″E / 45.15472°N 59.33500°E / 45.15472; 59.33500
Country	Uzbekistan

Kantubek (Russian: Кантубек) was a town on Vozrozhdeniya Island (Uzbekistan) in the Aral Sea. The town is still found on maps, but is usually uninhabited, and lies in ruins today.

Kantubek used to have a population of approximately 1,500, and was the place the former Soviet Union government used to test biological weapons. In the 1930s, experiments were conducted on monkeys.

Brian Hayes, a biochemical engineer with the United States Department of Defense's Threat Reduction Agency, led an expedition in the spring and summer of 2002 to neutralize what was probably the world's largest anthrax dumping grounds. His team of 113 people neutralized between 100 and 200 tonnes of anthrax over a three-month period. The cost of the cleanup operation was approximately US$5,000,000.

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Anthrax Island, By Christopher Pala

Coordinates: 45°09′17″N 59°20′06″E / 45.15472°N 59.33500°E / 45.15472; 59.33500

v t e 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	Project Bonfire Project Factor

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 Zagorsk smallpox production facility Berdsk bioweapons production facility Obolensk bioweapons research facility Military Compound 19 Aralsk-7 (Vozrozhdeniya Island) Kantubek Test Facility (Vozrozhdeniya Island) Institute of Virus Preparations

Bioweaponeers	Kanatjan Alibekov (Ken Alibek) Vladimir Pasechnik Sergei Popov Yuri Ovchinnikov Igor Domaradskij Nikolai Ustinov Pyotr Burgasov

Accidents	Sverdlovsk anthrax leak Aral smallpox incident

Related topics	Biological agent Biological warfare (BW) Entomological warfare U.S. biological weapons program History of biological warfare Sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance

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