Novocheboksarsk
"Khimprom" Cheboksary Production Association
Production Facility No. 3
Production III
Chuvash Production Association
Khimprom imeni Leninskiy Komsomol
Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic
On 23 September 1989, Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze signed the Wyoming Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which called for a bilateral exchange of information and verification inspections for chemical weapons. Two phases comprise the Wyoming MOU. Phase I ended in 1991. Phase II, which began on January 14, 1994, consisted of a two-part data exchange on the respective country's chemical weapons (CW) program including stockpiles and facilities associated with the development, production and storage of CW and five inspections by each country of facilities declared under Phase II. The data exchange occurred in April and May 1994 and the inspections began in August 1994 and ended in December 1994. Certain aspects of Russia's Phase II data on facilities, chemical agents, and stockpile were incomplete, inaccurate, or inconsistent with previously declared data.
The last of the five United States inspections of Russian chemical facilities allowed under Phase II of the Wyoming MOU took place, with Team Kilgore conducting a challenge inspection at the Novocheboksarsk facility, near Cheboksary, between 29 November and 15 December 1994. This facility, which formerly produced VX and "Substance 33" binary agent is mothballed but intact, with several buildings contaminated with nerve agents.
Production III at the Novocheboksary Khimprom plant had manufactured as much as 15,200 ton of V-agents when production ceased in 1987.
Sources and Methods
- Expert Eyes Russian Chemical Arsenals : JPRS-TAC-95-006-L : 26 January 1995
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