1973 establishments in the Soviet Union

international airport serving Riga, Latvia

The All-Union Science Production Association Biopreparat (, , ) was a Soviet agency created in April 1974, which spearheaded the largest and most sophisticated offensive biological warfare program known. It was a vast, ostensibly civilian, network employing 30–40,000 personnel and incorporating five major military-focused research institutes, numerous design and instrument-making facilities, three pilot plants and five dual-use production plants. The network pursued major offensive research and development programs with genetically engineered microbial strains to be resistant to an array of an

university in Azerbaijan

university in Barnaul, Russia

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nature reserve in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

political party in the Soviet Union