Anatoly Demjanowitsch Kunzewitsch

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Anatoli Demjanowitsch Kunzewitsch ( Russian Анатолий Демьянович Кунцевич ; born August 6, 1934 in Swislatsch (Mahiljouskaja Woblasz) ; † March 29, 2002 in Syria ) was a Russian - Soviet general of the chemical armed forces , member of the Russian Academy of Chemists and Forces .

Life

Kunzewitsch graduated from the Military Academy of Chemical Defense SK Timoshenko in 1959. He then worked at the Soviet Chemical Weapons Research Institute in Schichany from 1961 to 1984 and was involved in the development of chemical weapons from 1972. From 1984 he was deputy head of the Soviet chemical weapons troops , which he remained until 1991 (head was Vladimir Karpovich Pikalov ). He was involved in the Russian negotiations on the international chemical weapons agreement.

1986 to 1989 he was involved in a leading position in the decontamination after the reactor accident in Chernobyl . From 1988 onwards, he also investigated the chemical and ecological legacy of the Americans in the Vietnam War. After Gorbachev officially abandoned the chemical weapons program in 1987, he held a leading position in the disposal of the remains of the Soviet chemical weapons program, including the conversion of lewisite into arsenic trichloride with subsequent use in the manufacture of gallium arsenide for the semiconductor industry. In 1991 he was the founder and then head of the Center for Ecotoximetry at the Institute for Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences NN Semenov.

He was senior advisor on biological and chemical weapons control to the Russian government, but was removed from office in April 1994 after it became known that he had supplied laboratory equipment and chemical products to a Syrian so-called ecological research center. He was accused of supplying V-series nerve agent precursors to Syria, and in October 1995 he was arrested by Russian intelligence while boarding a plane for a business trip to Damascus. Kunzewitsch was a right-wing candidate for the Duma at the time and claimed that the charges were politically motivated. The charges against him were dropped a few months later. In 2002 he died unexpectedly of a heart attack on his return flight from Syria.

He wrote over 280 scientific papers in applied and organic chemistry. He was not only active in the development of chemical weapons and in chemical engineering (development of highly reactive sorbents, cleaning of surfaces, water and wastewater, evaluation of polymers for chemical engineering, optimization of the use of chemicals in industrial processes), but also developed decontamination methods and protection against chemical weapons.

In 1991 he received (in secret) with Victor Petrunin and General Igor Yevstavyev (Igor Yevstavyev) the Lenin Prize for the successful industrial production of Novichok . He was also a Hero of Socialist Labor (1981). In 1987 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

In 2018 rumors were spread that the Mossad had murdered Kunzewitsch in Syria.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tucker, War of Nerves, p. 276
  2. ^ Tucker, War of Nerves, 2006, p. 324
  3. ^ Tucker, War of Nerves, 2006, p. 315
  4. ↑ Russia's chemical weapons commander was a Mossad target . In: Ynetnews . March 16, 2018 ( ynetnews.com [accessed June 2, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Kunzewitsch, Anatoli Demjanowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian general of chemical weapons and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Swislatsch (Mahiljouskaja Woblasz)
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2002
Place of death Syria