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Vozrozhdeniya Penninsula
[[Image:Vozrozhdeniya Island.jpg|thumb|225px|Vozrozhdeniya Island from space, November 1994]]
[[Image:Vozrozhdeniya-topo.jpg|thumb|225px|Vozrozhdeniya Island topographic map, 1984]]

'''Renaissance Island''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: '''Остров Возрождения''') is a former island, now a [[peninsula]], in the [[Aral Sea]].  It became a peninsula between [[2000]] and [[2001]], due to ongoing shrinkage of the Aral Sea. [http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4343] It is now shared by [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Uzbekistan]].

Located in the central Aral Sea ({{coor dm|45|0|N|59|10|E|}}), Vozrozhdeniya Island was one of the main laboratories and testing sites for the [[Soviet Union]] government’s Microbiological Warfare Group. In [[1948]], a top-secret Soviet [[bioweapons]] laboratory was established here. It was here, according to just released documents, that the [[anthrax]] [[spore]]s and the [[plague]] [[bacillus|bacilli]] were  developed and stored. The main town on the island was [[Kantubek]], which lies in ruins today, b(contracted; show full)
[[Category:Geography of Uzbekistan]]
[[Category:Geography of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Islands]]
[[Category:Aral Sea]]
[[Category:Military of the Soviet Union]]

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