Tunguska Meteorite

Types of Leningrad. Academician AE Fersman talking with a group of scientists; among them - S.F. Oldenburg. Showcase of minerals in the Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Chronicle of the 1928 expedition to the place of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite: expedition members on the way. Acceptance of furs at one of the points of the procurement office. Hunters in the shop are shopping. Construction of shitik boats for the continuation of the expedition. Boating down the river. Views of the river and the environs of Kushma. The members of the expedition are fishing, making their way through the taiga. One of the expedition members makes a topographic survey. Excavations. Chronicle of London 1908. Expedition to the site of the fall of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite led by academician R. Fesenkov: conducting research and surveys on the ground. Investigation of minerals collected at the site of the fall in the laboratory. Expedition to Vanavara. The village of Vanavara. The members of the expedition swim along the river, walk through the forest, take soil samples, examine the soil. Expedition 1961. The members of the expedition carry out topographic measurements, erect pillars, study annual rings on a tree cut. Laboratory assistants study the composition of ash. Researchers are skiing through the swamp, using the device to determine the presence of magnetic masses in the swamp. Expedition to Lake Cheko. The expedition members take soil and silt samples. 1962 expedition to Mutarai. Exploration of the bottom of the lake. Soil sample. Soil research in the laboratory of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry. Conducting experiments to simulate the explosion and rapid decay of a meteorite at the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth on an experimental setup. Employees of the Botanical Garden are conducting experiments with modeling a radiant burn on a larch branch. General view of the area of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite.

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1965