Novichok is not only the substance that allegedly poisoned Sergei and Yulia Skripale, as well as Alexei Navalny, but also the name of a group of chemical warfare agents developed in the 70-80s in the Soviet Union. And also "Novichok" - one of the variants of the name of the program for the use of chemical weapons by the Soviet Army during the Cold War. In May 1918, a military chemical service was created in the Red Army, In 1921, the process of creating an industry for the production of chemical weapons began in the USSR, which only during the years of the Cold War produced more than 60 thousand tons of combat poison, many types of which in their parameters significantly exceeded their American counterparts. For the first time, the story of the Soviet military chemical complex will be told, most of the secrets of which were never revealed by Western intelligence.