Tomka
Tomka was the German code name of a ordnance test site of the Reichswehr and the Red Army in the Soviet Union . It was located about 15 kilometers west of the city of Wolsk near today's Schichany , and about 750 kilometers southeast of Moscow .
history
From 1928 to 1933 the artillery inspection of the Reichswehr (In 4) in Tomka carried out further development and training in the field of chemical warfare together with the Soviet army. Since chemical weapons have not been allowed to be used by Germany since the First World War , this part of the cooperation was kept strictly secret and is less known than the bases at Kazan ( tanks ) and Lipetsk ( aviation ). The Tomka experimented mainly with mustard gas ( mustard ), hydrogen and blue cross warfare agents .
After 1933 the area was used by the Red Army and expanded under the name "Wolsk-18" or " Schichany -2" to become Russia's most important center for the development of chemical warfare agents and protective measures against NBC weapons .
literature
- Henning Sietz: It smells like mustard! In: The time . No. 26 , 2006 ( zeit.de ).
- Christian Schmidt: The eighth village . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 8, 1996, p. 77 ( zeitungsarchiv.nzz.ch [accessed June 7, 2016]).
- Manfred Zeidler: Reichswehr and Red Army 1920–1933 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 978-3-486-56093-0 .
- Lev Aleksandrovich Fedorov : Chemical Weapons in Russia: History, Ecology, Politics . 1994 ( fas.org [accessed July 29, 2007]).
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ' N , 47 ° 6' E