Lev Fyodorov


Lev Alexandrovich Fyodorov was a Russian chemist.
He was employed at the V. I. Vernadskiy Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and became a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Fyodorov was a chemical warfare officer. After studying chemistry at Lomonosov University, he received his doctorate in 1967 and his habilitation in 1983. After the end of the Soviet era, he published papers on chemical and biological weapons and chemical security. Together with Vil Mirzayanov, he is particularly noted for his part in the publication of details regarding the discovery of Novichok nerve agents, and the subsequent court case against Mirzayanov.

Achievements

In 1967 Fyodorov received his candidate degree in chemistry and he subsequently defended his doctorate thesis in 1983. He has authored several monographs and articles in the field of physical chemistry and from 1983 his work focused on the environmental issues concerning dioxins.
Fyodorov was the author of articles in Chemosphere > also articles in "Успехи химии" , and in the journal "Химия и жизнь" . His writings were also published in local and central newspapers, and he authored monographs and was participant and speaker at annual international dioxin congresses.
In 1992, he founded and registered the Russian Anti-dioxin Association and by July he published an article on Soviet chemical weapons in the weekly "Top Secret". As a result of this, in October he was accused of divulging state secrets in the "Moscow News". He wrote two monographs on this topic, published by the Center of Environmental Policy of Russia and "Undeclared Chemical War in Russia: Policy against Ecology" ). Subsequently he dealt with related problems in environmental chemistry - pesticides, rocket fuel, biological weapons, etc.
On October 15, 1993, at the first meeting of the Union "For Chemical Safety" he was elected its president.

Publications

  • Chemical Weapons in Russia: History, Ecology, Politics, 1994
  • We Were Preparing for an All-Out Chemical War, 1995