Aralsk-7 (Barkhan)- military training to the test biological weapons.

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Aralsk-7 - a military test ground for biological weapons on 15 th Chief of General Staff of the USSR Ministry of Defense.

Experiments on the island of the Renaissance began well before the 2 nd World War, in 1936 th year.
The expedition of 100 people under the supervision of Professor Ivan Velikanova investigated the possibility to control the spread of tularemia and related microorganisms. In autumn 1937 the first year Velikanova NKVD arrested, and the work was stopped for 15 years.

In 1952 th the Soviet Government has resumed the study. The test range has been expanded and is now known as "Aralsk-7. On the island moved military unit consisting of several hundred people. It is equipped ships and aircraft.
In the Aral launched another section, who served as the base poddezhrki. Its called "Ural".

The field laboratory is developing methods for biological protection of Soviet troops. During the invasion of Afghanistan is tested military equipment designed for the Afghan environment. But it was only a side study.
In the southern part of the island was a platform upon which to spray the aerosol components of biological weapons. Studied methods of detection, as well as special testing bombs filled pathogenic microbes.

Deadly strains produced in the defense industry in Kirov, Sverdlovsk, Zagorsky, as well as to the Kazakhstan Stepnogorsk. Military microbiologists turned anthrax, tularemia, brucellosis, plague, typhus fever, and cu-in weapons of mass destruction. Apply even incitant specific diseases such as Venezuelan equine encephalitis. Tests were conducted on horses, monkeys, sheep and laboratory animals type of white mice, guinea pigs and hamsters.
By the 80 th years of fighting, or the model strains of microorganisms have already been made through genetic engineering.
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