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The Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 (Russian: Кольская сверхглубокая скважина СГ-3, romanized: Kol'skaya sverkhglubokaya skvazhina SG-3) is the deepest human-made hole on Earth (since 1979), which attained maximum true vertical depth of 12,262 metres (40,230 ft; 7.619 mi) in 1989. [1]
' Peace '), also called the Mirny mine, is an open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Sakha Republic, in the Siberian region of eastern Russia. The mine is more than 525 meters (1,722 ft) deep (4th in the world), has a diameter of 1,200 m (3,900 ft), [1] and is one of the largest excavated holes in the world.
The "Well to Hell", also known as the "Siberian hell sounds", is an urban legend regarding a putative borehole in the Siberian region of Russia, which was purportedly drilled so deep that it broke through into Hell. It was first attested in English as a 1989 broadcast by an American domestic TV broadcaster, the Trinity Broadcasting Network. [1]
This hard-to-find rusty cap in the ruins of a building in Russia's Kola Peninsula. As the race in space was winding down, soviet scientists turned inwards. You'd never guess that this is the site ...
This massive sinkhole measuring 131 feet wide recently opened up about two miles away from a Russian mine. First, flooding stopped operations at the mine about a 1,000 miles east of Moscow.
Siberia's growing hole in the ground, BBC Reel (video, 4:48 min.), 27 July 2020. A Giant Crater in Siberia Is Belching Up Russia’s Past. New York Times, May 23, 2024
Since March 2014 the Peanut Hole's seabed and subterranea is legally part of the continental shelf of Russia. The Peanut Hole (named for its shape) [fn 1] is an area about 55 kilometres (34 miles) wide and 480 kilometres (300 miles) long, [fn 1] surrounded by the exclusive economic zone of Russia (Russian EEZ) extending from the shores of the ...
Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk ... which sits on high ground, Russian forces have yet to ...