WSLADYMYR ROSCHDESTVENSKY/SOVIET SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTES

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: October 10, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Mr Weladymyr Roschdestvensky Was a graduate medical bacteriologist from Kiev.
University. His official position was at the Kiev Institute of Microbiology
.and Epidemiology imeni Zabolotny.
3. Biological warfare training was given to students of military medical '
academies. Civilians were not permitted to enter these institutions. In
all other universities and institutes, all students were given general
military training such as topography, technique and practice of shooting
(rifles and machine guns)lthrowing hand grenades) etc.
According to rumors, the bacteria which were being considered by the Soviets
for use as offensive BW agents were anthrax, tularemia (or its variants),
and the toxin of fungus stachybotrys.
The full title of the Institute imeni D K Zabolotny is the Institute of
Microbiology and Epidemiology imeni Zabolotny, Akademiya Nayk, Ukrainian
SSR. It is located in Kiev, and the old name of the street was Welyka -
Zhytomrska Street. The present location is given as 28 Hershuni Street.
(See Footnote for exact location) The institute is not large; it
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occupies two, two story houses. Thas the best German and Soviet equipment
and employs the best bacteriologists, e.g., Prof Drobotko, academician
Cholodnyi, and others. Its principal activities are human epidemiology and
agricultural microbiology (illnesses of plants). Nmik
The Etssian title of"Oblast Microbiological Institute is Oblastnoi Sanitarno
Bacteriologicheskij Institute". (See Footnote for the loeation.of thIs
institute and the Pasteur Station). This is a scientific, practical
institution, while the Institute of Microbiology of the Acadiemv of Science is
a research institution. Prof Drobotko is the one scientist' who may
be working at the Oblast Microbiological Institute.
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25X1 7. The Kievskij Veterinarnyj Institute is located in Holosijevo, a suburb of
Kiev. Its clinics are located in another suburb, Stalinka. (See kVotnpta
for exact location). The institute was very well equipped, but largely
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rest by Germans to Germany. The greater part
of the research personnel remained, among whom were these young, outstanding
scientists: Slabospicki, microbiologist; Korstich, epizootologist; Kasianenko,
anatomist; Ponomanenko, pathologist. Residing outside of the USSR are
,Prof Korsunskij (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Prof Krasheninnikov, parasitologist
(USA); Prof Hrynorenko (Europe); and Prof Himmelreich (Europe).
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two microbiological institutes in Kiev were working on
problems of war Before
World War II, Soviet scientists were engaged mainly in work on poison gas,
chlorine and others).
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