In April of 1979, people from the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk began falling strangely ill with inexplicable symptoms. Soviet intelligence is believed to have covered-up the true number of casualties.

It was, they said, contaminated meat. In April of 1979, people in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk began falling mysteriously ill: fevers, coughs, vomiting. At least 66 people died. When officials ...

On a cold April day in 1979, a secret Soviet bioweapons lab released a deadly fog of anthrax over the city of Sverdlovsk. Dozens died—but the truth was buried for years.

Now people know that there was a special military settlement in Sverdlovsk. For a little period of time that settlement was involved in research and development, and manufacturing of biological ...

While Nikita Khrushchev talks, the other 202 million inhabitants of the Soviet Union do their best to go about their daily business, living and loving, bettering their lot, and sometimes—with ...

With the threat still looming 37 years after the Sverdlovsk accident, scientists finally have an unhindered view of the deadly germ inadvertently unleashed: The full genome sequence of the anthrax ...

The overnight launch was ordered to be implemented from Russia's Sverdlovsk region. By REUTERS MAY 18, 2025 15:21 Updated: MAY 18, 2025 22:26 ...

Dozens of Central Asian migrants are being held in Russian jails with no access to proper food as they wait for deportation orders. Incarcerated migrants told RFE/RL they were being held in jails ...