Vladimir Pasechnik, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vladimir Pasechnik

Soviet biologist

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1937

Place of Birth: Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 21-Nov-2001

Profession: biologist

Nationality: United Kingdom, Russia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Vladimir Artemovich Pasechnik (12 October 1937 Stalingrad, USSR – 21 November 2001, Wiltshire, England) was a senior Soviet biologist and bioweaponeer who defected to the United Kingdom in 1989, alerting Western intelligence to the vast scope of Moscow's clandestine biological warfare (BW) program, known as Biopreparat.
His revelations that the program was ten times larger than previously suspected were confirmed in 1992 with the defection to the United States of Colonel Kanatjan Alibekov, the No.
2 scientist for the program.