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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
Information about the Mayak explosion reached the public in 1992.
The person responsible for providing this information was prosecutor Lev Ivanov, who was investigati ...
Kyshtym disaster
Construction work proceeded under dramatic conditions.
The construction site was located in the middle of the taiga, surrounded by lakes and rivers. Winter ...
Dyatlov Pass incident
During the search, a map was drawn up, on which all the critical points were located.
We learn from it that at a distance of about 1.5 kilometers from the tent down the slope there was a ...
Dyatlov Pass incident
The group originally consisted of nine people.
They were Igor Dyatlov (23 years old), Yuri Yudin (21 years old), Zinaida Kolmogorova (22 years old) ...
Troy
Troy (Ilion) is an ancient city located in Troad - ancient Carina in northwestern Anatolia - on the western coast of Asia Minor on the Skamander River.
The region is now part of the Turkish province of Çanakkale, where there is an archaeological site containing the ruins of ancient Troy, situated on Hisarlık Hill near the village of Tevfikiye.
Kyshtym disaster
On a seven-point scale for assessing the impact of radiation events, the Kyshtym disaster earned a level six - major accident.
It is now considered the third most serious nuclear disaster, behind Chernobyl and Fukushima. Howeve ...
Troy
Archaeological work carried out on Hisarlik hill has led to the discovery of the remains of as many as nine cities.
The cities built on the hill were destroyed and rebuilt on the same site.
Medieval world
In the Middle Ages, people did not believe that the earth was flat. At least in the circles of the enlightened people, the rest of society simply did not have such abstract questions in mind for them.
Educated people were well aware that the place they lived in was a sphere. This knowledge had been a ...
Dyatlov Pass incident
Another theory is the spy theory.
It assumes that the KGB or GRU agents (given the military units stationed in the area) were involved ...
Troy
Troy II existed between 2500 and 2200 BC.
It consisted of 7 levels stacked on top of each other. Each level was surrounded by walls. The follo ...