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Saturday, 19 September 2026
42 facts about Kyshtym disaster
42 facts about Kyshtym disaster
The first nuclear accident in Earth's history
Before information about it saw the light of day, the Soviets hid it for over 30 years. The explosion at the Mayak combine was the first nuclear accid ...

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Kyshtym disaster
Construction of the Mayak combine lasted from 1945 to 1948.
In 1945, the construction site was selected. The route chosen was between Yekaterinburg (then Sverdl ...
Black death
Eyewitnesses of the time describe the scourge of the Black Death in three possible variations.
The first was swollen lymph nodes in the groin area, the second was a lung disease that caused diffi ...
Axum Empire
From the sixth century, the gradual decline of the Axum began.
The empire got into numerous wars with the Persians and various kingdoms of the Arabian Peninsula. W ...
Battle of Thermopylae
According to Herodotus, the army led by Xerxes numbered five million two hundred and eighty-three thousand men – including a battle-worthy two million six hundred and forty thousand.
Such a large throng of people (as well as accompanying animals), even under today’s conditions, woul ...
Medieval world
The Great Western Schism, or the crisis of the Catholic Church that began its slow disintegration and eventually led to the Reformation.
It lasted from 1378 to 1417 and was caused by political gamesmanship between cardinal factions. At t ...
Ancient Sumer
In order to take advantage of the fertile lands they inhabited, the Sumer invented the plow.
It is also suspected they developed an irrigation system.
Medieval world
The strangest medieval footwear comes from Cracow in Poland. These shoes are, of course, crakows, flat with a short shaft and a ridiculously long toe.
They came on the market around 1330 and became incredibly popular in Western Europe, where they were ...
Battle of Thermopylae
According to Herodotus, of the 300 Spartans who fought at Thermopylae, two did not take part in the battle due to violent eye pain.
After returning to Sparta, one of them hanged himself (“effeminate, this he suffered: none of the Sp ...
Dyatlov Pass incident
It is said of Igor Dyatlov that he took an overly ambitious approach to the Otorten expedition.
Dyatlov was an experienced tourist belonging to the Ural Polytechnical Tourism Section. He had repea ...
Black death
Although until recently it was believed that the Black Death stayed away from the areas of Poland and the Bohemia, there is no grain of truth in this story.
Poland and Bohemia were not isolated places, so both insects and travelers moved through these areas ...