Biohazard

^{Military training: laying a simulated mine at Tomsk in 1974.}

^{Delivering a report on the tularemia outbreak at the Battle of Stalingrad at a scientific conference for military cadets in early 1975.}

 ^{With my platoon at graduation: June 1975. I am bottom row, second from the right. Top row on the far left is Yevgeny Staroverov. He was assigned with me to Omutninsk, where still worked in the late 1980s. In the second row, second from the left is Yevgeny Stavsky, who joined the Fifteenth Directorate after graduation and went to Vector in the 1980s as a department chief to develop a smallpox weapon.}

^{With my first child, Mira, at Berdsk in 1979, when I was working with brucellosis and was accused by the KGB of illegally developing biological weapons.}

^{An official army photo, taken in 1982, after I was promoted to deputy director of Omutninsk. I am wearing a medal for "wartime services" awared for the successful development of a tularemia biological weapon.}

^{May Day at Stepnogorsk, 1985. Anthrax weapons developers and their children.}

^{Part of the Stepnogorsk compound: a view from Building 221. The building in the fore-ground housed aerosol explosive chambers. Directly behind it is an anthrax drying facility. The bunkers in the foreground were for filling and assembling biological munitions.}

^{With my family in August 1987. From the right: Lena, Alan, Mira, Timur. This photo was taken after the successful testing of my new anthrax weapon, a month before we moved to Moscow.}

^{General Kalinin presides: an annual conference of bioweaponeers — institute directors, sci-Urakov, director of Obolensk; me; Oleg Ignatiev, chief of Biological Weapons Directorate of the Military Industrial Commission (VPK); unidentified official; and Kalinin.}

^{General Kalinin's audience.}

^{First doubts: with Colonel Professor Tarumov, one of the main developers of tularemia biological weapons, at a scientific conference in Moscow in 1990.}

^{Military coup: Biomash employees at CM barricades in front of the Russian White House in August 1991.}