Media, 'Vladimir Uglev, one of the creators of Novichok, has died'

Vladimir Uglev, one of the creators of Novichok, has died at the age of 81. The news was revealed to The Insider. Uglev had collaborated with The Insider during the investigation into the use of Novichok (a class of military-grade nerve agents) by Russian intelligence.

Specifically, it is the substance used to poison Alexei Navalny in 2020. The news also received prominence in the Ukrainian media.

As The Insider learned, Vladimir Uglev passed away on October 26. He spent the last years of his life in Anapa.

His name became widely known in 2018, when the biochemist gave a series of media interviews following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, England. In 2020, when politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, Uglev also actively commented on the properties of this poison to several news outlets.

Uglev collaborated with The Insider during the investigation into Russian intelligence's use of Novichok. In particular, The Insider published an investigation into who produces Novichok in Russia and how.

Vladimir Uglev was born in Kirovsk, Russia, on September 20, 1946. In 1975 he graduated from the Dmitri Mendeleyev Institute of Chemical Technology in Moscow, specializing 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, which, among other things, participated in the development of poisons.