Aralsk - 7, Kantubek

Uzbekistan / Korakalpogiston / Moynoq /
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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, and other mammals.

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.


Old aerial photo: qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/aral-sea-1960s.jpg?q...
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantubek
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Coordinates:   45°9'11"N   59°20'13"E

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  • It's not a port actually. It is so called "Aralsk-7", small secret town, where lived soviet doctors with families, which made byological weapons.
  • Also known as Kantubek.
  • What were these biological weapons used for? Against whom were they to be used?
  • the weapons were never used. they were designed as a wmd against nato if the cold war went hot.
  • Interesting this place is kind of like prypiat(chernobyl) only instead of being a nuclear hazard its a biological hazard.
  • Eagle eye lol you didn't go to school my friend.
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