Omutninsk (Russian: Омутни́нск) is a town and the administrative center of Omutninsky District in Kirov Oblast, Russia.

[citation needed] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Omutninsk serves as the administrative center of Omutninsky District.

[1] As an administrative division, it is, together with four rural localities, incorporated within Omutninsky District as the Town of Omutninsk.

[2] The Institute of Applied Biochemistry is situated near Omutninsk.

According to Dr. Ken Alibek, a biological warfare expert, it was (and possibly still is) a combined pesticide production facility and reserve biological weapons production plant that could be activated in time of war.