Old Kantubek bioweapons laboratory

Kantubek is a ghost town on Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea. The town is still found on maps but was abandoned in 1992 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rebirth Island.

Rebirth Island

Locality

Photo: NASA, Public domain.

Vozrozhdeniya Island was a peninsula and former lake island in the Aral Sea. The former island's territory is split between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In 1954, the Soviet Union constructed a biological weapons test site called Aralsk-7 there and on the neighbouring Komsomolskiy Island, which also no longer exists as an island. Rebirth Island is situated 9 km southwest of Old Kantubek bioweapons laboratory.

Old Kantubek bioweapons laboratory

Type: Ruins
Also known as: “Kontyubek”, “Qantúbek”, “Rybachiy Poselok”, and “Рыбачий Поселок”
Category: historic site
Location: Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude

45.15481° or 45° 9′ 17″ north

Longitude

59.33484° or 59° 20′ 5″ east

Open location code

8HQX583M+WW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 807718125

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=ruins

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In Other Languages

From French to Russian—“Old Kantubek bioweapons laboratory” goes by many names.

French: “Kantoubek”
German: “Altes Kantubek Biowaffenlabor”
Italian: “Kantubek”
Polish: “Kantubek”
Romanian: “Kantubek”
Russian: “Кантубек”

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