The creator of Novichok has died. Vladimir Uglolov was 80 years old

Vladimir Uglov was born on September 20, 1946 in Kirovsk. In 1975, he graduated from the Moscow Chemical and Technological Institute. Mendeleev.

In the years 1975–1990, Ugłow was a senior researcher at the branch of the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology in Wolsk. Work was carried out at this facility on the development of poisonous agents, including substances belonging to the Novichok group.

The chemist gained international recognition in 2018. He then gave interviews about Novichok after the poisoning in Great Britain of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

He consulted on independent media investigations

In the following years, Uglov consulted journalists from independent Russian media who were preparing materials regarding the use of Novichok by the Russian secret services.

Substances from this group were associated with, among others: with the attempted poisoning of Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny in 2020. Russia has consistently denied responsibility for attacks using this means.

Novichok is the name used for a group of highly toxic chemical compounds developed in the USSR and later in Russia. Some of these substances are included in the list of banned chemicals of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

In the last years of his life, Uglo lived in Anapa. The cause of his death was not given.