Vozrozhdeniya Island
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Vozrozhdeniya Island (Ostrov Vozrozhdeniya, lit. 'Rebirth Island', Kazakh, Vozrojdenie araly, Uzbek, Vozrojdeniye oroli) was a peninsula and former lake island in the Aral Sea. The former island's territory is split between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In 1954, the Soviet Union constructed a biological weapons test site called Aralsk-7 there and on the neighbouring Komsomolskiy Island, which also no longer exists as an island.
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