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Tomka gas test site (german: Gas-Testgelände Tomka) was a secret
pp.137-150
/ref> It operated (according to an agreement undersigned by fictitious joint stock companies) during 1926-1933. After 1933 the area was used by the Red Army and expanded under the name "Volsk-18" or "Schichany-2" to Russia's most important center for the development of chemical warfare agents and protective measures against NBC weapons. Another chemical site was established by the settlement of Ukhtomsky, Moscow Region.''Note:'' Now Ukhtomsky is part of Kosino-Ukhtomsky District of Moscow, see :ru:Ухтомская (платформа) for more detail
Tomka gas test site (german: Gas-Testgelände Tomka) was a secret chemical weapons
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testing facility near a place codenamed Volsk-18 (Wolsk, in German literature), 20 km off Volsk
Volsk (russian: Вольск) is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, opposite the mouth of the Bolshoy Irgiz (a tributary of the Volga), northeast from Saratov, the administrative center of the oblast. ...
, now Shikhany
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, Saratov Oblast
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, Russia
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created within the framework of German-Soviet military cooperation to circumvent the demilitarization provisions of the post-World War I
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Treaty of Versailles
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. It was co-directed by (начальник военно-химического управления Красной Армии), and German chemists Alexander von Grundherr and Ludwig von Sicherer.Sally W. Stoecker, Forging Stalin's Army: Marshal Tukhachevsky And The Politics Of Military Innovation , Routledge, 2018, pp.137-150
/ref> It operated (according to an agreement undersigned by fictitious joint stock companies) during 1926-1933. After 1933 the area was used by the Red Army and expanded under the name "Volsk-18" or "Schichany-2" to Russia's most important center for the development of chemical warfare agents and protective measures against NBC weapons. Another chemical site was established by the settlement of Ukhtomsky, Moscow Region.''Note:'' Now Ukhtomsky is part of Kosino-Ukhtomsky District of Moscow, see :ru:Ухтомская (платформа) for more detail
See also
*Kama tank school The Kama tank school (german: Panzerschule Kama) was a secret training school for tank commanders operated by the German ''Reichswehr'' near Kazan, Soviet Union. It operated from 1929 to 1933. The school was established in order to allow the German ...
*Lipetsk fighter-pilot school
The Lipetsk fighter-pilot school (german: Kampffliegerschule Lipezk), also known as WIWUPAL from its German codename ''Wissenschaftliche Versuchs- und Personalausbildungsstation'' "Scientific Experimental and Personnel Training Station", was a secr ...
References
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