Kantubek

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Kantubek ( _ru. 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 warfare. In the 1930s, experiments were conducted on monkeys.

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 tons of anthrax over a three-month period. The cost of the cleanup operation was approximately $5,000,000.

References

*"Anthrax Island", By Christopher Pala