Gorodomlya Island

Coordinates: 57°12′8″N 33°04′2″E / 57.20222°N 33.06722°E / 57.20222; 33.06722
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View of Gorodomlya Island in Lake Seliger

Gorodomlya Island (остров Городомля) is located on Lake Seliger in Tver Oblast, Russia, 300 kilometres (200 mi) northwest of Moscow. The closed urban-type settlement of Solnechny is located on the island.

In June 1930, the People's Commissariat of Agriculture (Narkomzem) began construction on Gorodomlya Island of the Scientific-Research Institute for the Study of Foot-and-Mouth Disease. It was opened officially in October 1932 and incorporated the very best Soviet and imported equipment and its huge main building, occupying 25,000 square metres, incorporated both production facilities and research laboratories, a guinea pig nursery, biological wastewater treatment facilities, a museum, a library, a micro-photo laboratory, a cinema and a 100-seat lecture room.[1] In 1934-1935, the FMD facility was transferred to the Red Army's BW facility, the Biotechnical Institute, also known by the code designation V/2-1094. German intelligence reported that the military institute was engaged in experiments focused on Francisella tularensis (the causative agent of tularaemia) and Yersinia pestis (the causative agent of plague). Germany launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 and following the capture of Kalinin in October, the BW facility was evacuated from the island and eventually relocated to Kirov.[2] The facilities served as a convalescent hospital in the following years.[3]

In 1946, more than 170 German rocket scientists and engineers, including

V-2 manufactured with Russian parts. In June 1952, 100 German scientists were repatriated and sent home.[4]: 3–4  Branch 1 of NII-88 eventually became a part of the Zvezda Branch of the Academician Pilyugin Center, a subsidiary of Roscosmos
.

References

  1. ISBN 978-3-030-73843-3
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  2. ISBN 978-0-19-092885-8
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  3. ^ a b "WORKING CONDITIONS AND PERSONNEL AT BRANCH NO. 1 OF NII 88, GORODOMLYA ISLAND" (PDF). CIA. 15 July 1953. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 May 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  4. ^ "SITE LAYOUT OF BRANCH NO. 1, NII 88, GORODOMLYA ISLAND" (PDF). CIA. 7 October 1953. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 May 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.

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