Vladimir Uglev has died: farewell to one of the creators of Novichok
He was 81 years old. Uglev had collaborated with *The Insider* during the investigation into the Russian secret services’ use of Novichok (a class of military-grade nerve agents)
Vladimir Uglev, one of the creators of Novichok, died on 26 October at the age of 81. The news was revealed to The Insider. Uglev had collaborated with The Insider during the investigation into the use of Novichok (a class of military-grade nerve agents) by the Russian secret services. Specifically, this is the substance used to poison Alexei Navalny in 2020. The news has also been widely reported in the Ukrainian media.
Uglev spent the last years of his life in Anapa. His name became widely known in 2018, when the biochemist gave a series of interviews to the media following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, England.
In 2020, when the politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, Uglev also spoke extensively to various media outlets about the properties of this poison. Uglev collaborated with The Insider during investigations into the use of Novichok by the Russian secret services. In particular, The Insider published an investigation into who produces Novichok in Russia and how.
Uglev was born in Kirovsk, Russia, on 20 September 1946. In 1975, he graduated from the Dmitri Mendeleyev Institute of Chemical Technology in Moscow, specialising in the chemistry and technology of biologically active substances. From 1975 to 1990, he worked as a senior researcher at the Volsk branch of the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, which, amongst other things, was involved in the development of poisons.
