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Base of storage/destruction of chemical weapon

Russia / Udmurtija / Kambarka /
 arsenal / weapon and ammunition storage, military, chemical warfare

136th central base of manufacture, repair of arms and means of radiating, chemical and biological protection

According to official figures, 6349 tons were stored in Kambarke in stationary capacities люизита that made 15,9 percent from all stocks of the chemical weapon of the Russian Federation.

The history of object the EAR in Kambarke has reckoned from the first days of the Great Patriotic War. Then for a re-deployment of 136th central chemical warehouse НКО far inland on a joint of three republics - Udmurtiyas, Bashkortostan and Tatarstan - the woody district in 3 km from the center of settlement Kambarka and in 1 km from a trunk-railway Kazan - Sverdlovsk has been chosen.

In November, 1941 the warehouse has completely transferred the base on a new place, and in December the first parties OV kozhno-naryvnogo actions - люизита in butts there began to arrive. Necessity of storage of considerable quantity ОВ has been caused by acceptance of adequate measures in connection with preparation by fascist Germany for conducting against the USSR chemical war with application of poison gases. In the late forties the decision on building of the stationary land brick storehouses containing large-capacity tanks is accepted. To the middle of 50th years of work on filling of all of 80 capacities люизитом have been finished, and the object has been put in operation. As it stands 1203 object on storage of the chemical weapon - a body 35 776 - according to the Joint Staff instruction has been generated on July, 1st, 1992.

After a number of administrative transformations the former central warehouse of chemical property is transformed at first to 1203 object on storage, and then in object on destruction of the chemical weapon. In conformity with the Federal target program «Destruction of stocks of the chemical weapon in the Russian Federation» building of the industrial enterprise for liquidation люизита on the basis of object in Kambarke has been defined as a priority problem.
In the middle of 2004 warehouse have been still surrounded by a barbed wire and dense wood, and in the beginning of 2006 here cases of the industrial production completely answering to technology requirements of the XXI-st century already flaunted.

In September, 2008 of work on destruction of the basic stocks люизита (about 97 percent) have been finished. By this time of storehouse was дооснащены the necessary process equipment to begin destruction of the rests so-called трудноизвлекаемого люизита (the crystallized deposit which has arisen because of long storage in tanks). This not the most simple work has been finished in the beginning of April.
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Coordinates:   56°15'54"N   54°15'47"E
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