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A meat processing -plant was located nearby with a view to supplying components of bacterial nutrient media. It was located immediately adjacent to the Vtorchermet housing estate. Compound 19 abutted the southern industrialised sector of the city in the Chkalovskii district. The BW facility at Sverdlovsk was in fact located within a military base known as Compound 19 ( 19-m gorodok) which itself was created between 19. In 1974, the facility was re-named as the Scientific-Research Institute of Bacterial Vaccine Preparations. Later in the 1970s interest in the latter ceased and there was a major shift in focus to B. In 1951 a programme was launched which focused on botulinum toxin. Research was initiated at Sverdlovsk on bacterial pathogens including Bacillus anthracis. Alibek suggests that the construction of the institute incorporated technologies which had been gleaned from captured scientists who had participated in the Japanese biological warfare programme. The new facility, known as the USSR Ministry of Defence's Scientific-Research Institute of Hygiene, became operational on 19 July 1949. It was allocated the former site of the Cherkassk-Sverdlovsk Infantry Academy in Sverdlovsk on Uiltsa Zvezdnaya, 1, and abutted the southern industrialised sector of the city. The biological warfare facility in Sverdlovsk was built during the period 1947 to 1949 and was a spin-off of the Soviet Union's main military BW facility in Kirov. During the Cold War, Sverdlovsk became a Soviet ' closed city' to which travel was restricted for foreigners. The city has at times been referred to as Russia's Pittsburgh because of its large steelmaking industry. It produced tanks, ballistic missiles, rockets and other armaments. By the 1970s, 87 per cent of the city's industrial production was military only 13 per cent for public consumption. The closed city of Sverdlovsk had been a major production center of the Soviet military-industrial complex since World War II.

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