Kantubek
Kantubek (Russian: Кантубек) was a city on the Island of Rebirth ( Uzbekistan ) in the Aral Sea . The city is still marked on maps, but is no longer inhabited and is now a ghost town . Kantubek had a population of about 1500 people.
history
The area served as a biological weapons dump from the 1930s, when experiments were conducted on monkeys . There was a laboratory equipped for this by the Soviet Biopreparat authority .
Brian Hayes, a biochemical engineer with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the US Department of Defense , conducted an expedition in the spring and summer of 2002 to clean up what is probably the world's largest anthrax- contaminated area. Its 113 employees were able to neutralize between 100 and 200 tons within three months. The cost of cleaning operation amounted to about 5 million US dollars .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile16829/Kantubek,-Renaissance-Island,-Uzbekistan.htm
- ↑ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/03/24/MN148620.DTL
Coordinates: 45 ° 9 ′ 43.5 ″ N , 59 ° 19 ′ 28.6 ″ E