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Date: 30 June 1908; 116 years ago (): Time: 07:17: Location: Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian Empire: Coordinates: 1]: Cause: Probable meteor air burst of small asteroid or comet: Outcome: Flattened 2,150 km 2 (830 sq mi) of forest Devastation to local plants and animals: Deaths: Up to 3 possible [2]: Property damage: A few damaged buildings: The Tunguska event was a ...
Tunguska is located in the East Siberian taiga ecoregion, which sits between the Yenisei River and Lena River. Its northern border reaches the Arctic Circle, and its southern border reaches 52°N latitude. The dominant vegetation is light coniferous taiga with Dahurian larch (Larix gmelinii) forming the canopy in areas with low snow cover. This ...
Lake Cheko is a small bowl-shaped lake. It is about 500 metres (1,600 ft) long, 300 metres (980 ft) wide and 50 metres (160 ft) deep. [1] [2]In the lake flows the Kimchu River (Russian: Кимчу), which flows into the Chunya River (Russian: Чуня), which in turn flows into the Podkamennaya Tunguska.
Vanavara (Russian: Ванава́ра) is a rural locality (a selo) in Evenkiysky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Podkamennaya Tunguska River at the mouth of the local Vanavarki River. Population: 3,153 (2010 Census); [1] 3,313 (2002 Census); [4] 5,697 (1989 Soviet census). [5]
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The name Tunguska, a region of eastern Siberia bounded on the west by the Tunguska rivers and on the east by the Pacific Ocean, has its origin from the Tungus people (Evenks). [1] Russian Tungus was likely taken from East Turkic tunguz (literally, 'wild pig, boar', from Old Turkic tonguz ), [ 2 ] although some scholars prefer derivation from ...
Trees felled by the 1908 Tunguska event. The 1908 Tunguska event—an enormous explosion in a remote region of Siberia—has appeared in many works of fiction. It is generally held to have been caused by a meteor air burst, though several alternative explanations have been proposed both in scientific circles and in fiction.
In 1927, he led the first Soviet research expedition to investigate the Tunguska event, [2] [3] the largest impact event in recorded history, which had occurred on 30 June 1908. He made a reconnaissance trip to the region, accompanied by Nikolay Ivanovich Fedorov and others, and interviewed local witnesses.