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Created: Friday, 14 June 2013 10:56
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Published: Friday, 14 June 2013 10:56
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The Urals are a mountain range that separates Asia from Europe: there are endless woods of birch, pine and fir trees, but especially rich mines of all kinds of metal and caves.
This time, thanks to an invitation received from the Academy of Sciences and the University of Perm, we would have had to visit, in the North of the Urals, a huge bauxite mine, where there are strange karst phenomena very deep (about 1000 meters below sea level ...).
Unfortunately, due to an unexpected resurgence of the Stalinist bureaucracy, permission is denied us at the last minute .... Fortunately our Russian friends we immediately present an alternative program that will be still very interesting...
Read more: The Urals, an endless underground world