Peace Pipe Diamond Deposit

The village of Mukhtuya. Airfield on the ice of the Lena River. Unloading aircraft that delivered cargo for the construction of the city of Mirny. Trucks with loads travel along the road laid in the taiga to Mirny, located 300 kilometers from Mukhtuy. Territory of construction of the future city of Mirny, located in the area of the diamond deposit. The tent in which the Yakutalmaz Trust Office is located. Meeting of employees of the trust, dedicated to the discussion of the planning of the development of residential quarters of the future city. Present: V. G. Dmitriev, V. G. Nemirovsky, V. N. Yakimov L. V. Zhelyabin, M. I. Oshurkov, V. V. Ilyin, O. P. Vyalova. Lunev's team of carpenters is building residential buildings in Mirny. Geologists of the Amakan expedition RK Yurkevich, G. Kh. Fainshtein at work at a mine dug at a primary deposit. Physics laboratory of the Amakan expedition in the village of Nyurba. Mineralogist N. Alekseeva and laboratory assistant Z. Repina are sorting diamonds mined in the Trubka Mira deposit.

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1957