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{{Short description|Soviet nuclear research site, 1946–1955}}
[[File:Laboratory B warning sign.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The ''Radioactivity'' warning sign left at the now-ruined and abandoned Laboratory B, ca. 2009]]

'''Laboratory B''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: {{lang|ru|Лаборатория Б}}), also known as '''Object B{{zwnj}}''' ({{lang|ru|Объект Б}}) or '''Object 2011''' during its period of operation,<ref>[[N. V. Timofeev-Resovskij|Timofeev-Resovskij, N. V.]] ''Kratkaya Avtobiograficheskaya Zapiska'' (''Brief Autobiographical Note'') [http://www.jinr.ru/drrr/Timofeeff/auto/auto_r.html (14 October 1977)] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120630032607/http://www.jinr.ru/drrr/Timofeeff/auto/auto_r.html |date=30 June 2012 }}.</ref><ref>''"Я ПРОЖИЛ СЧАСТЛИВУЮ ЖИЗНЬ" К 90-летию со дня рождения Н. В. Тимофеева-Ресовского ("I Lived a Happy Life" – In Honor of the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Timofeev-Resovskij)'', ''ИСТОРИЯ НАУКИ. БИОЛОГИЯ (History of Science – Biology)'', 1990, No. 9, 68-104 [http://www.ihst.ru/projects/sohist/papers/priroda/1990/9/68-104.pdf (1990)].</ref><ref>Ratner, V. A. ''Session in Memory of N. V. Timofeev-Resovskij in the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences'' [In Russian], ''Vestnik VOGis'' Article 4, No. 15 [http://www.bionet.nsc.ru/vogis/vestnik.php?f=2000&p=15_4 (2000)].</ref><ref>Izvarina, E. ''Nuclear project in the Urals: History in Photographs'' [In Russian] ''Nauka Urala'' Numbers 12-13, June [http://www.ch70.chel.su/newsview.phtml?id=20060601_01 2000] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208094742/http://www.ch70.chel.su/newsview.phtml?id=20060601_01 |date=2007-02-08 }}</ref> was a former [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] nuclear research site constructed in 1946 by {{ill|Lake Sungul|ru|Сунгуль}} in [[Chelyabinsk Oblast]] in [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russia]].{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} Operated under the 9th Chief Directorate of the Soviet [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)|Ministry of Internal Affairs]], it was a major site for the [[Soviet atomic bomb project|Soviet program of nuclear weapons]] that works on handling, treatment, and the use of the radioactive products generated in reactors, as well as radiation biology, dosimetry, and radiochemistry. It had two divisions: [[radiochemistry]] and [[radiobiophysics]]; the latter was headed by [[N. V. Timofeev-Resovskij]].

Laboratory B was run as a [[sharashka]]—a secret facility run as a prison, with at least ten of its German staff classified as [[prisoners of war]] from [[World War II]]. For two years, the German chemist [[Nikolaus Riehl]] was the scientific director. 

It was closed in 1955, and has since been abandoned and left as a ruin.

==Creation==
From early in 1945, Colonel General [[Avraami Zavenyagin|A. P. Zavenyagin]], as head of the 9th Chief Directorate of the [[NKVD]] ([[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)|MVD]] after 1946), was responsible for the acquisition of German scientists, equipment, materiel, and intellectual property, under the [[Russian Alsos]], to help Russia with the [[Soviet atomic bomb project]]. The issue of Decree No. 9877 from the [[Council of Ministers (Soviet Union)|Council of Ministers]] on 20 August 1945 created a special committee of which Zavenyagin was a member,{{efn|Members of the Special Committee were:<ref>See Knight, 1993, 135-137 and Kruglov, 2002, 31-32.</ref>
*[[Lavrentiy Beria]], Chairman of the Special Committee
*[[Mikhail Pervukhin]], [[Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|Deputy Chairman]] of the [[Council of People's Commissars]] ([[Sovnarkom]], Sovet Narodnykh Komissarov) after 1946, the [[Council of Ministers (Soviet Union)|Council of Ministers]] (Sovmin, Sovet Ministrov)
*[[Nikolai Voznesensky]], Chairman of the State Committee for Planning ([[Gosplan]], Gosudarstvennyj Komitet po Planirovaniyu)
*[[Georgy Malenkov]], Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
*B. L. Makhnev, Secretary of the Special Committee
*[[Pyotr Kapitsa]], Director of the [[Institute for Physical Problems| Institute for Physical Problems of the Academy of Sciences]]. Kapitsa requested to be taken off of the Special Committee due to disagreements with Beria. Kapitsa's first request was denied, but the second was approved.
*[[Avraami Zavenyagin]], head of the 9th Chief Directorate of the NKVD (a deputy of the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs)
*[[Igor Kurchatov]], head of Laboratory No. 2 and the scientific supervisor for the Soviet atomic bomb project. with special and extraordinary powers for solving problems related to the atomic bomb project.
}}
Zavenyagin was responsible for establishing, building, managing, and providing security for facilities supporting the atomic bomb project. Zavenyagin's purview also included the resources of the [[Gulag]]; some of the facilities to which the German scientists were assigned were run as a [[sharashka]]. German scientists were available for recruitment from the [[Soviet occupation zone]] in Germany. Also, immediately after [[World War II]] and extending into 1949, the Russians also had a large pool of German [[Prisoner of war|PoW]] scientists and highly skilled specialists from which to recruit; the main camp was at [[Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast|Krasnogorsk]].<ref>Knight, 1993, 135-137.</ref><ref>Kruglov, 2002, 31-32.</ref><ref name="wsyachina.narod.ru">Vazhnov, M. Ya. ''[http://wsyachina.narod.ru/history/zavenyagin.html A. P. Zavenyagin: Pages from His Life] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070228032634/http://wsyachina.narod.ru/history/zavenyagin.html |date=2007-02-28 }} (chapters from the book)'' [In Russian].</ref><ref>Oleynikov, 2000, 11.</ref><ref>Naimark, 1995, 205-250.</ref><ref>Albrecht, Heinemann-Grüder, Wellmann, 2001, 48-82.</ref>

Facilities to which the German scientists were assigned were under the under authority of the 9th Chief Directorate and included the following (with annotations of prominent Germans at the facilities):<ref>Maddrell, 179-180.</ref><ref>Albrecht, Heinemann-Grüder, and Wellmann, 2001, 48-82.</ref><ref>Oleynikov, 2000.</ref><ref>Vazhnov, M. Ya. ''[http://wsyachina.narod.ru/history/zavenyagin.html A. P. Zavenyagin: Pages from His Life] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070228032634/http://wsyachina.narod.ru/history/zavenyagin.html |date=2007-02-28 }} (chapters from the book)''. [In Russian]</ref>

* Laboratory 2 (later known as the [[Kurchatov Institute| Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy]] and today as the Russian Scientific Center "Kurchatov Institute") in Moscow. &ndash; [[Josef Schintlmeister]].<ref>An Austrian who was a German citizen by virtue of the [[Anschluss]], the 1938 German annexation of Austria.</ref>
*Scientific Research Institute No. 9 (NII-9; today the Bochvar All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Inorganic Materials, Bochvar VNIINM) in Moscow &ndash; [[Max Volmer]] and [[Robert Döpel]].
*[[Elektrostal| Elektrostal']] Plant No. 12 &ndash; A. Baroni (PoW), [[Hans-Joachim Born]] (PoW), [[Alexander Catsch]] (PoW), Werner Kirst, H. E. Ortmann, Przybilla, [[Nikolaus Riehl]], Herbert Schmitz (PoW), Herbert Thieme, Tobein, [[Günter Wirths]], and [[Karl Zimmer]] (PoW).
*Institutes A (in Sinop, a suburb of [[Sukhumi]]) and G (in Agudzery) created for [[Manfred von Ardenne]] and [[Gustav Hertz]], respectively. Institutes A and G were later used as the basis for the Sukhumi Physico-Technical Institute (SFTI); today it is the State Scientific Production Association "SFTI". Institute A &ndash; Ingrid Schilling, Fritz Schimohr, Fritz Schmidt, Gerhard Siewert, [[Max Steenbeck]] (PoW), [[Peter Adolf Thiessen]], and Karl-Franz Zühlke. Institute G &ndash; [[Heinz Barwich]], [[Werner Hartmann (physicist)|Werner Hartmann]], and [[Justus Mühlenpfordt]].
*Laboratory V was created for [[Heinz Pose]] in [[Obninsk]], and it was run as a sharashka.<ref>Polunin, V. V. and V. A. Staroverov ''Personnel of Special Services in the Soviet Atomic Project 1945 &ndash; 1953'' [In Russian] [http://www.fsb.ru/history/autors/polunin.html (FSB, 2004)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215035846/http://www.fsb.ru/history/autors/polunin.html |date=2007-12-15 }}</ref> Laboratory V was later renamed the [[Institute of Physics and Power Engineering|Physics and Power Engineering Institute]] (FEhI or IPPE); today the ''"State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation - A.I. Leipunsky Physics and Power Engineering Institute" (JSC SSC RF - FEI)'' &ndash; Werner Czulius, Walter Hermann, Hans Jürgen von Oertzen, [[Ernst Rexer]], [[Karl-Heinrich Riewe]], and Carl Friedrich Weiss.
*Laboratory B in Sungul' was established by a decree of the Council of Ministers in 1946, and it was run as a [[Sharashka]]. In 1955, it was assimilated into a new, second nuclear weapons institute, Scientific Research Institute-1011 (NII-1011), today known as the Russian Federal Nuclear Center All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics (RFYaTs–VNIITF). &ndash; [[Hans-Joachim Born]] (PoW), [[Alexander Catsch]] (PoW), Willi Lange, [[Nikolaus Riehl]], and [[Karl Zimmer]] (PoW).

==Research conducted==
Laboratory B had two scientific divisions, a radiobiophysics division headed by the geneticist [[N. V. Timofeev-Resovskij]] (prisoner), and a radiochemistry division headed by Sergej Aleksandrovich Voznesenskij (prisoner).<ref name="VNIITF"/>

===Radiobiophysics===
In 1925, as the Russian part of a collaborative effort between Russia and Germany, the Russians sent Timofeev-Resovskij, and his colleague Sergei Romanovich Tsarapkin, to Germany. There, they worked with [[Oskar Vogt]], director of the ''Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Hirnforschung'' (KWIH, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research),<ref>The KWIH was an institute of the ''[[Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft]]'' (Kaiser Wilhelm Society). Today, the KWIH is known as the Max-Planck Institut für Hirnforschung, [http://www.mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de/global/menue/profil.htm MPIH] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522073658/http://www.mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de/global/menue/profil.htm |date=2011-05-22 }}.  After [[World War II]], all of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes were named after the physicist [[Max Planck]].</ref> to establish the ''Abteilung für Experimentelle Genetik'' (Department of Experimental Genetics) and Timofeev-Resovskij became its director. Timofeev-Resovskij stayed in Germany through World War II, and built his department to world-renowned status. On the basis of false denunciations, Timofeev-Resovskij and Tsarapkin were arrested by the NKVD in September 1945, returned to Russia, and both sentenced to 10 years in the [[Gulag]]. They ended up in the [[Karaganda]] prison camp in northern [[Kazakhstan]], one of the most terrible camps in the Gulag; the harsh conditions of Timofeev-Resovskij's transportation and incarceration in the labor camp contributed to a significant decline in his health, including the degradation of his vision brought on by malnutrition. Colonel General Zavenyagin, who had intended to utilize Timofeev-Resovskij's talents in the Soviet atomic bomb project, had Timofeev-Resovskij and Tsarapkin sent to Laboratory B in 1947. Timofeev-Resovskij's wife Elena Aleksandrovna, after receipt of a letter in his handwriting, left Berlin in 1948, with their son Andrew, to join him in Sungul'. The house occupied by the three Timofeev-Resovskijs was every bit as nice as that planned for the German scientists working at the Sungul' institute.<ref>Timofeev-Resovskij, N. V. ''Kratkaya Avtobiograficheskaya Zapiska'' (''Brief Autobiographical Note'') [http://www.jinr.ru/drrr/Timofeeff/auto/auto_r.html (14 October 1977)] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120630032607/http://www.jinr.ru/drrr/Timofeeff/auto/auto_r.html |date=30 June 2012 }}.</ref><ref>Vogt, Annette ''Ein russisches Forscherehepaar in Berlin-Buch'', ''Edition Luisenstadt'' [http://www.luise-berlin.de/bms/bmstext/9808prod.htm (1998)].</ref><ref>Babkov, V. V. ''Nikolaj Vladimiorovich Timofeev-Resovskij'' [In Russian], ''Vestnik VOGiS'' Article 5, Number 15, 8-14 [http://www.bionet.nsc.ru/vogis/vestnik.php?f=2000&p=15_5 (2000)].</ref><ref>Medvedev, 1982.</ref><ref>Riehl and Seitz, 1996, 122-128 and 202.</ref> (In 1992, Timofeev-Resovskij was rehabilitated, 11 years after his death!<ref>Paul and Krimbas, 1992.</ref><ref>[http://www.mdc-berlin.de/englisch/about_the_mdc/public_relations/press_releases_2006/images/ressovsky.pdf Timofeev-Resovskij]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} – MDC for Molecular Medicine: ''Background Information Nikolai Wladimirovich Timoféeff-Ressovsky''.</ref>)

Born, Catsch, and Zimmer, who had worked for Timofeev-Resovskij in Berlin and who were sent to Laboratory B by Riehl in December 1947, were able to conduct work similar to that which they had done in Germany, and all three became section heads in Timofeev-Resovskij's department. Born examined fission products, developed methods of separating plutonium from fission products created in a nuclear reactor, and investigated and developed radiation health and safety measures. Catsch began his work on developing methods to extract radionucleotides from various organs, which he would continue when he left Russia.<ref name="Oleynikov, 2000, 16-17"/><ref name="Riehl and Seitz, 1996, 121-132"/><ref>[http://www.fzd.de/FZD/Roi/FZR_intern_Nr40.pdf ZfK]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} - ''50 Jahre Forschung in Rossendorf, Zentralinstituts für Kernphysik Rossendorf''</ref>

The radiobiophysics division under Timofeev-Resovskij had four sections which conducted experimental studies in four basic directions:<ref name="VNIITF"/>

*Effects of radioactive isotopes on animals.
*[[Cell biology|Cytological]] effects of radiation on plants and animals.
*Effects of weak concentrations of radioactive materials and low doses of ionizing radiation, mainly on crop cultivated plants.
*Effects of the distribution and accumulation of different radioactive materials introduced into the soil, ground water, and freshwater bodies.
The agrobiological and hydrobiological experiments were united on the general basis of the biogeochemical analysis of the experimentally created elementary [[biogeocenosis]]<ref>[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/biocenosis TheFreeDictionary] defines ''biocenosis'' as "a group of interacting organisms that live in a particular habitat and form a self-regulating ecological community."</ref> and the introduction of special factor radioactive materials into it.<ref name="VNIITF"/>

===Radiochemistry===
On the basis of a false denunciation, Sergej Aleksandrovich Voznesenskij was arrested in June 1941; in April 1942, he was sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag. From March 1943 to 1947, he led a research group in the 4th Special Department of the NKVD in Moscow; the 4th Special Department provided military research and development by utilizing specialist prisoners, i.e., scientists. In December 1947, he was transferred to Laboratory B to head up the radiochemistry division.<ref>Oleynikov stated Voznesenskij had been at the [[Glazov]], [[Udmurtia]] uranium plant sometime before going to Laboratory B; see Oleynikov, 2000, 16.</ref> With the liquidation of Laboratory B and its merger into NII-1011 in 1955, Voznesenskij was transferred to the Ural Polytechnical Institute to head up the Department of Radiochemistry, and was simultaneously appointed as a scientific consultant at Combine No. 817 on problems of radioactive waste cleanup. (Voznesenskij had been fully rehabilitate in May 1953.)<ref name="RFYaTS-VNIITF Creators">[http://www.ch70.chel.su/creators.phtml RFYaTS-VNIITF Creators] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209013555/http://www.ch70.chel.su/creators.phtml |date=2008-02-09 }} – See entry for ''ВОЗНЕСЕНСКИЙ Сергей Александрович '' (VOZNESENSKIJ Sergej Aleksandrovich) [In Russian].</ref><ref>Polunin, V. V. and V. A. Staroverov ''Personnel of Special Services in the Soviet Atomic Project 1945 &ndash; 1953'' [In Russian]  [http://www.fsb.ru/history/autors/polunin.html (FSB, 2004)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215035846/http://www.fsb.ru/history/autors/polunin.html |date=2007-12-15 }}.</ref>

The radiochemistry division had four sections and conducted research and development in the following areas:<ref name="VNIITF"/><ref name="RFYaTS-VNIITF Creators"/>

*Development of methods of cleaning radioactive waste water.
*Development of the most appropriate structures for the storage of radioactive waste.
*Study of radioactive isotope ion exchange.
*Development of spectroscopic methods for the analysis of complex mixtures of radioactive components.
*Study of the precipitation of radioactive fragments.
*Development of methods to obtain clean (chistykh) isotopic preparations from the solutions of fission fragments of uranium, supplied by Combine No. 817 in nearby Ozersk.

==Overview==
Owing to its proximity to the radiochemical plutonium facility Combine No. 817,<ref>The plutonium plant was successively known as Base No. 10, Combine No. 817, the Mendeleev Center, and today the [[Mayak|Production Association Mayak]] in Chelyabinsk-40/Chelyabinsk-65/[[Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast|Ozersk]]. See Kruglov, 2002, 7 and GlobalSecurity.org ''[http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/chelyabinsk-65_nuc.htm Chelyabinsk-65 / Ozersk] Combine 817 / Production Association Mayak''.</ref> the scientists at the institute had access to high-dose radioactive materials.<ref name="Oleynikov, 2000, 16-17">Oleynikov, 2000, 16-17.</ref><ref name="VNIITF">Penzina, V. V. ''Archive of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics, named after E. I. Zababakhin. Resource No. 1 &ndash; Laboratory "B".'' [In Russian] ([http://chelarhiv.ru/vestnik/8/ayd.html VNIITF] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111220524/http://chelarhiv.ru/vestnik/8/ayd.html |date=2013-11-11 }}).</ref>

The scientific staff at Laboratory B – a [[Sharashka]] – was both Soviet and German, the former being mostly political prisoners or exiles, although some of the service staff were criminals – one had been convicted of murder. In 1955, the institute had 451 staff members; in 1946 there had been 95.  The institute had a maximum of 26 German scientists, and more than 10 of them initially were classified as PoWs. The German contingent left the institute in 1953. The institute had two departments: radiobiophysics (No. 1) and radiochemistry (No. 2). In 1955, the institute was merged into the newly created second<ref>The first nuclear weapons design facility was [[Sarov|KB-11/Arzamas-16]].</ref> nuclear weapons design institute Nauchno-Issledovatel'skij Institut-1011 (NII-1011).<ref>Today, NII-1011 is known as the Rossijskij Federal'nyj Yadernyj Tsentr – Vserossijskij Nauchno-Issledovatel'skij Institut Tekhnicheskoj Fiziki  (РФЯЦ-ВНИИТФ), the Russian Federal Nuclear Center – All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics.</ref> During the merger, the radiopathology section of the radiochemistry department was transferred to Combine No. 817 ([[Ozersk]]) and a section of the radiobiophysics department was transferred to the Ural Branch of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences|USSR Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="wsyachina.narod.ru"/><ref name="Oleynikov, 2000, 16-17"/><ref name="VNIITF"/><ref name="Riehl and Seitz, 1996, 121-132">Riehl and Seitz, 1996, 121-132.</ref><ref>Emel'yanov and Gavril'chenko, 2000.</ref>

Accomplishments of Laboratory B include the development of technology for the isolation of fission by-products such as strontium-90, caesium-137, zirconium-65, and the technology to remove these isotopes from chemical compounds.<ref name="Oleynikov, 2000, 16-17"/>

==Personnel==
===Directors===
The first director of Laboratory B, starting in 1946, was [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)|MVD]] Colonel Alexander Konstantinovich Uralets, who had previously worked on the [[Soviet atomic bomb project]]. He received the [[Order of Lenin]] for his management of Laboratory B.<ref>[http://www.ch70.chel.su/creators.phtml RFYaTS-VNIITF Creators] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209013555/http://www.ch70.chel.su/creators.phtml |date=2008-02-09 }} – See entry for ''УРАЛЕЦ Александр Константинович'' (URALETs Aleksandr Konctantinovich) [In Russian].</ref>

From 26 December 1952 to 14 June 1955, the director was the chemist Gleb Arkad'evich Sereda.<ref name="VNIITF"/><ref>[http://ch-lib.ozersk.ru/general/biblio/projects/enc/ozersk/ecologe_oz.html (ОНИС)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060501035623/http://ch-lib.ozersk.ru/general/biblio/projects/enc/ozersk/ecologe_oz.html |date=2006-05-01 }} – Opytnaya Nauchno-Issledovatel'skaya Stantsiya (ONIS, Pilot Scientific Research Station), Ozersk.</ref>

===Scientific directors===
[[Nikolaus Riehl]] was the scientific director of Laboratory B from September 1950 to early autumn in 1952.<ref>Riehl and Seitz, 1996, 125 and 141.</ref>

Riehl, scientific director of the [[Auergesellschaft]], was sent by the Russians, in 1945, to head a group at Plant No. 12 in [[Elektrostal|Ehlektrostal']] to develop an industrial process for production of reactor-grade uranium. Other Germans sent to work there included A. Baroni (PoW), Werner Kirst, Henry E. Ortmann (chemist from ''Auergesellschaft''), Przybilla, Herbert Schmitz (PoW), Herbert Thieme, Tobein, and [[Günter Wirths]] (chemist from ''Auergesellschaft''). When Riehl learned that professional colleagues from the ''Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Hirnforschung'' (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research) in Berlin, [[Hans-Joachim Born]] and [[Karl Zimmer]], were being held in [[Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast|Krasnogorsk]], in the main PoW camp for Germans with scientific degrees, Riehl arranged though Zavenyagin to have them sent to Ehlektrostal'. [[Alexander Catsch]] was also sent there. At Ehlektrostal', Riehl had a hard time incorporating Born, Catsch, and Zimmer into his tasking on uranium production, as Born was a radiochemist, Catsch was a physician and radiation biologist, and Zimmer was a physicist and radiation biologist; in December 1947, Riehl sent all three to Laboratory B to work with Timofeev-Resovskij.<ref>Riehl and Seitz, 1996, 89-104, 121-128, and 202.</ref><ref>Maddrell, 2006, 179-180, 186, 189, and 210-221.</ref><ref>Oleynikov, 2000, 11, and 15-16.</ref>

After the detonation of the Russian uranium bomb, uranium production was going smoothly and Riehl's oversight was no longer necessary at Plant No. 12. Riehl then went, in 1950, to be the scientific director of Laboratory B, where he stayed until 1952. Essentially the remaining personnel in his Ehlektrostal' group were assigned elsewhere, with the exception of Henry E. Ortmann, A. Baroni (PoW), and Herbert Schmitz (PoW), who went with Riehl to Sungul'.<ref>Riehl and Seitz, 1996, 121-128.</ref><ref>Oleynikov, 2000, 15-17.</ref>

Besides those already mentioned, other Germans at Laboratory were Rinatia von Ardenne (sister of Manfred von Ardenne, director of Institute A, in Sukhumi) Wilhelm Menke (botanist), Willi Lange (who married the widow of [[Karl-Heinrich Riewe]], who had been at [[Heinz Pose| Heinz Pose's]] Laboratory V, in [[Obninsk]]), Joachim Pani, and K. K. Rintelen. Until Riehl's return to Germany in June 1955, which Riehl had to request and negotiate, he was quarantined in Agudzery (Agudseri) starting in 1952; Augudzery, was the location of Institute G.<ref>Riehl and Seitz, 1996, 121-128 and 141-142.</ref><ref>Oleynikov, 2000, 15-17 and Reference #154 on p. 29.</ref>

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*Polunin, V. V. and V. A. Staroverov ''Personnel of Special Services in the Soviet Atomic Project 1945 &ndash; 1953'' [In Russian]  [http://www.fsb.ru/history/autors/polunin.html (FSB, 2004)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215035846/http://www.fsb.ru/history/autors/polunin.html |date=2007-12-15 }}
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*''"Я ПРОЖИЛ СЧАСТЛИВУЮ ЖИЗНЬ" К 90-летию со дня рождения Н. В. Тимофеева-Ресовского ("I Lived a Happy Life" – In Honor of the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Timofeev-Resovskij'', ''ИСТОРИЯ НАУКИ. БИОЛОГИЯ (History of Science – Biology)'', 1990, No. 9, 68-104 [http://www.ihst.ru/projects/sohist/papers/priroda/1990/9/68-104.pdf (1990)]. This commemorative has many photographs of Timofeev-Resovskij.

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