Old Kantubek bioweapons laboratory

Kantubek is a ghost town on in the . The town is still found on maps but was abandoned in 1992 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rebirth Island.

Locality
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Vozrozhdeniya Island was a peninsula and former lake island in the . The former island's territory is split between and . 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. is situated 8 km southwest of Old Kantubek bioweapons laboratory.

Old Kantubek bioweapons laboratory

Latitude
45.1496° or 45° 8′ 59″ north
Longitude
59.31251° or 59° 18′ 45″ east
Open location code
8HQX48X7+R2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 66944665
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
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Satellite Map

Discover Old Kantubek bioweapons laboratory from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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 (52-я полевая научно-исследовательская лаборатория (ПНИЛ-52))”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Vozrozhdeniya Island Airport Barkhan (inactive) and The burial grounds “PNIL-52”.

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