
German staff at Tomka chemical weapons facility, 1928
Tomka gas test site (German language: Gas-Testgelände Tomka) was secret chemical weapons testing facility near place codenamed Volsk-18 (20 km off Volsk), now Shikhany,[1] Saratov Oblast, Russia created within the framework of German-Soviet military cooperation to circumvent the demilitarization provisions of the post-World War I Treaty of Versailles. It was co-directed by Yakov Fishman (начальник военно-химического управления Красной Армии), and German chemists Alexander von Grundherr and Ludwig von Sicherer.[2][3][4] It operated (according to an agreement undersigned by fictitious joint stock companies) during 1926-1933.[5]
Another chemical site was established by the settlement of Ukhtomsky, Moscow Region.[2][6]
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- ↑ Note: Shikhany still has a chemical testing ground (Шиханский полигон)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sally W. Stoecker, Forging Stalin's Army: Marshal Tukhachevsky And The Politics Of Military Innovation , Routledge, 2018, ISBN 0429980027, pp.137-150
- ↑ Es riecht nach Senf!, Henning Sietz, Die Zeit, Nr. 26, 2006
- ↑ Weapons of Mass Destruction: Nuclear weapons, Volume 2 of Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology, and History, James J. Wirtz, 2005, ISBN 1851094903 p. 257, citing N. S. Antonov
- ↑ Николай Антонов (N.S. ANTONOV), ХИМИЧЕСКОЕ ОРУЖИЕ НА РУБЕЖЕ ДВУХ СТОЛЕТИЙ (CHEMICAL WEAPONS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY), Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1994, Section Становление исследовательских центров (Russian)
- ↑ Note: Now Ukhtomsky is part of Kosino-Ukhtomsky District of Moscow, see ru:Ухтомская (платформа) for more detail
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