Yuri Ovchinnikov (biochemist)

Yuri Anatolievich Ovchinnikov (Russian: Юрий Анатольевич Овчинников; 2 August 1934 – 17 February 1988) was a Soviet bioorganic chemist. He was the youngest vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1971-1988) and a member of the Central Committee of CPSU. Ovchinnikov was director of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Moscow. He was a leading proponent of using molecular biology and genetics for creating new types of biological weapons.

References

Birstein, Vadim J. (2004), The Perversion Of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science, Westview Press ISBN 0-8133-4280-5.

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 Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services

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