• Satellite image of former Vozrozhdeniya Island, November 1994. ... Mid-2001: Vozrozhdeniya no longer an island, connects to the mainland.
  • The Aralkum Desert is covered in a layer of toxic, salty dust (Credit: Alamy). During the Cold War, Vozrozhdeniya Island was a top-secret testing ground for...
  • The Case of the Disappearing Anthrax Island | Condé Nast Traveler Vozrozhdeniya island By Conde Nast Traveler.
  • Kantubek and Vozrozhdeniye villages on Vozrozhdeniya Island, Aral Sea, Uzbekistan. former secret Sovjet biological warfare laboratory in Kantubek and...
  • Elyor Nematov. Until the 1940s, the only thing on Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea was a small fish processing plant.
  • The island was initially named in honor of Tsar Nicholas I and became known as Vozrozhdeniya Island following the establishment of the USSR.
  • ...one on Lake Seliger, but the one that eventually became the site for the world’s largest biological-warfare testing ground was Vozrozhdeniya Island on Aral Sea.
  • Explore Vozrozhdeniya Island in Google Earth.
  • The history of Anthrax Island. Vozrozhdeniya Island formed from the end of the 16th to the beginning of 17th centuries due to the decrease of the Aral Sea level.