(Remastered) Rebirth Island. Aralsk-7

You may sponsor the creation of new videos via: , Voz Island (Ostrov Vozrozhdeniya, which translates as Rebirth Island or Renaissance Island), was an island in the Aral Sea. The former island's territory is split between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In the 1960s, the island began to grow in size as the Aral Sea began drying up as the Soviet Union dammed its feeder rivers for agricultural projects. The shrinkage of the Aral continued and accelerated over time. Vozrozhdeniya became a peninsula in mid-2001 when the channel to its south dried up completely and became a land bridge. Upon the disappearance of the Southeast Aral Sea in 2008, Vozrozhdeniya became technically indistinguishable from the surrounding land. From 1942 to 1992, a military biochemical testing site with the code name “Barkhan” (sand-dune) operated on the island. Official name: 52nd Field Research Laboratory (PNIL-52). By the end of 1949, a runway was equipped on the island, allowing it to rec