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Shikhany

Saratov Oblast, Russia
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About Shikhany

Shikhany is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, found 130 kilometers north of Saratov on the correct bank of the Volga River. It has been a shut town since 1997, however will lose this status from 1 January 2019. It was established in 1928 and conceded town status in 1996. It has had shut status since 1997, the year that the Chemical Weapons Convention came into power. Once in the past, it was named after Count Vasily Orlov-Denisov, a legend of the 1812 Patriotic War.

Inside the structure of authoritative divisions, it is consolidated as the shut regulatory regional development of Shikhany—a managerial unit with the status equivalent to that of the districts. As a city division, the shut managerial regional arrangement of Shikhany is fused as Shikhany Urban Okrug. Shikhansky concoction proving ground keeps a lot of military toxic substance substances, basically old ones, for example, yperite.

In light of a report put together by Russia to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons OPCW, a British synthetic weapons master shown that Shikhany was the wellspring of the novichok specialist utilized in the 2018 harming of Sergei Skripal and his daughter. However, a compound weapons site in Uzbekistan that was disassembled and sterilized in 1999 may have been utilized to initially deliver and test the operator. Shikhany has a superior environment than the closest enormous cities. Shikhany is encompassed by the timberland and the concoction plant isn't being used.

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