[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Isn’t (or wasn’t) Chelyabinsk the center of Russias’ famed/feared bio-weapons labs?

[Strategerist]

There is an enormous amount of important military stuff of all kinds near Chelyabinsk.

[PA Engineer]

Isn’t (or wasn’t) Chelyabinsk the center of Russias’ famed/feared bio-weapons labs?

Yes. Russian TV (English) was discussing this early this morning.

[cunning_fish]

It was a city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) 200 miles north of Chelybinsk.
Chelyabinsk is a home for a lot of defense research and manufacturing too.

[Moose4]

Not so much bio-weapons, but Chelyabinsk Oblast (the equivalent of a state or province) had several top-secret nuclear facilities in it.

The city itself was more famous in Russia for becoming the center of T-34 tank production during WW II. The T-34 factories were disassembled, moved from the west of the country a thousand miles east to and beyond the Urals, and reassembled. Chelyabinsk became known as “Tankograd” as a result.

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