Soviet Military Trucks Evolution (1924–1991)

On April 2, 1979, in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), a catastrophic biological accident occurred at a secret military research facility known as Compound 19. A technician at the lab had removed a clogged filter from an exhaust pipe that led from an anthrax drying machine. He left a note for the next shift, but the supervisor failed to record it in the logbook. When the next shift began, they turned the machines on, venting a concentrated plume of anthrax spores directly into t