NTI: Country Overviews: Kazakhstan: Biological Facilities

Biological Facilities

Facilities Overview

The four main Soviet BW facilities in Kazakhstan directly or indirectly involved in an offensive and defensive Soviet BW program are:

--Vozrozhdeniye Island Open-Air Test Site in the Aral Sea;
--Scientific Experimental and Production Base (SNOPB) in Stepnogorsk;
--Scientific Research Agricultural Institute (NISKhI) in Gvardeyskiy;
--Anti-Plague Scientific Research Institute in Almaty.


	Updated March 2007

	Facilities Overview
	Anti-Plague Scientific Research Institute in Almaty (former Alma-Ata)
	Scientific Research Agricultural Institute (NISKhI)
	Scientific Experimental and Production Base (SNOPB)
	Vozrozhdeniye Open-Air Test Site
	M. Aikimbayev Kazakh Scientific Center of Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases (KSCQZD)
	Branch State Enterprise - Scientific Research Institute of Biosecurity Problems
	Joint Stock Company "Biomedpreparat-Engineering Center" (Former Scientific Experimental and Production Base -SNOPB)

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This material is produced independently for NTI by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, agents. Copyright © 2007 by MIIS.

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