How it was №1 04.07.1998 (1998)

Video chronicle: Work in a biological laboratory.

Specialists in protective suits remove a sealed flask from storage.

Place the contents in a special device.

Virus division under a microscope.

The events of 1979 are reconstructed.

Alexander Burmistrov tells how three people in his team died at once on one day.

Employees of specialized services, dressed in chemical suits, arrived at the homes of the deceased.

The bodies of the deceased were covered with chloramine and taken away.

And the living quarters were sanitized.

Alevtina Nekrasova shows family photographs.

She tells how her father was taken to the hospital.

The next day he died.

The family was given a death certificate, which contained the diagnosis - poisoning with an unknown poison.

People in specialized clothing were present in the morgue, who treated the premises.

The Nekrasovs' home was also subjected to special treatment.

By April 10, the number of victims in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) reached twenty.

The official diagnoses were different for everyone.

Vladimir Perlin talks about the first victims of the viral infection.

Talks about the symptoms of anthrax and its varieties.

Petr Burgasov talks about the spread of the infection through animal meat.

In the Chkalovsky district of the city there was a military town with a secret institute engaged in the development of protection against bacteriological weapons.

One version is that it became the source of the spread of the virus.

Petr Burgasov refutes this version.

Vladimir Perlin talks about the bacteria of the virus found in residential areas, where the so-called "washings" were taken - special scrapings for analysis.

Talks about the spread of this virus through the air.

Which explained the death of people working in Alexander Burmistrov's workshop, where the central ventilation of the plant workshop was located.

Andrei Mironyuk made a map of the wind direction and outlined the walking routes of all those infected with the virus.

As it turned out, they were all in the same place at about the same time.

Video chronicle: Military town Sverdlovsk-19. Checkpoint.

Drive along the fence.

Address plan of the ceramic factory.

City Hospital No. 20 of the city.

After the chemical treatment of the contaminated streets of the city began, a second wave of deaths broke out.

Residents of the city, unwarned, without specialized protection, were infected with the virus, which spread throughout the area for several more months.

Lev Fyodorov and Sergey Volkov were the first to talk about the tragedy and question the official version of what happened.

They talk about bacteriological weapons, which were manufactured in the military town.

Scientists assume that along with the anthrax leak, there was a second pathogen, since in the affected areas people began to suffer from musculoskeletal diseases, damage to the lymphatic and vascular systems, as well as gene mutation.

The military did not admit their guilt.

The official version says that the infection was caused by the meat of diseased cattle.