One of the developers of Novichok died in Russia

04.11.2026, 09:30◉ 02 min readEditorial team “SHCHO STALOSIA”

In Russia, one of the inventors of the deadly nerve agent Novichok, Volodymyr Ugliev, died at the age of 81. — Ukrinform.

One of the developers of Novichok died in Russia

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Біохімік консультував The Insider під час підготовки розслідувань про використання «Новічка» російськими спецслужбами.

Uglev was born in the Russian city of Kirovsk on September 20, 1946. In 1975, he graduated from the Dmitri Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology with a degree in chemistry and technology of biologically active substances. From 1975 to 1990, he worked as a senior researcher at the Volsk branch of the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology (DerzhNDIOKhT), which, among other things, participated in the development of the poison.

Prior to the official destruction of chemical weapons, the 33rd Central Research Testing Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the village of Shikhany-2 of the Saratov region was engaged in the creation and development of Novichok class substances, where until 1990 Ugliev developed the first "Novices".

Details

Novichok is a family of highly toxic nerve agents. Substances in this group are recognized as prohibited by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

Context

Uglev's name became widely known in 2018, when the biochemist gave a series of interviews after the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the British city of Salisbury. Later, in 2020, when Russian politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned by Novichok, Uglev also actively commented on the properties of this poison in the media.