S. Popov: I was born in the southwestern part of Siberia, in the city of Novosibirsk, which was where Akademgorodok was built in '57, you know, unclassified scientific institutions... a large cluster of scientific institutions doing unclassified research were established [there], although we now know that the purpose of setting up those scientific institutions in Siberia was to speed up development of military technologies, but notwithstanding that, Akademgorodok was the national flagship center for charting new scientific territory, and I went to the university there, and it so happened that the biological weapons development laboratory that belonged to Biopreparat was an Akademgorodok facility.