The wind blew the anthrax spores, as I understand it, away from Sverdlovsk. If the wind had been blowing the other way back into the city of Sverdlovsk what could the death rate have been?

A cloud of death floats silently through Sverdlovsk. The Soviet Union claimed nothing was wrong—but hundreds were exposed to ...

In this account, as with her two earlier books — a history of biological weapons and an investigation into a mysterious 1979 anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk, Russia — Guillemin demonstrated an ...

Dark Records How a Soviet Lab Accident Unleashed Deadly Anthrax in 1979 Posted: March 10, 2025 | Last updated: March 10, 2025 A deadly cloud drifted through the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk in 1979 ...

The worse anthrax outbreak in Russia (USSR) occurred in spring 1979 in Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), leaving 64 people dead. From 2009 to 2014, there were 40 recorded anthrax cases in Russia ...

In 1979, a rare outbreak of anthrax disease in the city of Sverdlovsk killed nearly 70 people. The Soviet government publicly blamed contaminated meat, but U.S. intelligence sources suspected the ...

YEKATERINBURG, May 7. /TASS/. Forest fires in Russia’s Urals region of Sverdlovsk exceeded 33,000 hectares as of Saturday night, the regional Department of Information Policy said on Sunday.

"We had no idea what would happen when we knocked on the door and said we want to talk about anthrax," he says. "Would [the female investigators] be kicked ... Now a trim, energetic man of 71, ...

TASS/. Russia’s Sverdlovsk Region in the Ural Mountains has banned the use of drones until the end of the "special regime" that had been introduced by the federal government, regional officials ...