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.

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.

When you look at Sverdlovsk, when you look at some of the intelligence that was being floated even back as early as the late 70s, why do you think the U.S. did not catch on sooner that there was a ...

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A wildfire has spread to a gunpowder depot in Russia's Urals mountains setting it ablaze and forcing the evacuation of a small village in the Sverdlovsk region, local officials said Saturday evening.

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 exact number of Central Asian workers currently incarcerated in the Sverdlovsk region is not known, but the two migrants who spoke to RFE/RL on behalf of several others say hundreds of ...