In the book, movie, and HBO series Watchmen, the character Doctor Manhattan is known to be created by an accident with an extrinsic field extractor.
While it is terrifying to think of the reality that Jon Osterman had to go through (and still does as Manhattan), you never once think at how many times the Soviets must have tried to recreate the same experiment and have their own Doctor Moscow.
In that universe there is probably a tiny remote station, a former gulag where they just send people to try and recreate the same outcome. Oh wait, that experiment was the actual plot of the damn show hahaha!