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Darvaz:
The Door
To Hell
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ENGLISH RUSSIA
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This place in Uzbekistan
is called by locals
“The Door to Hell”.
It is situated near the
small town of Darvaz.
The story of this place
lasts already for 35 years.
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Once the geologists
were drilling for gas.
Then suddenly during the
drilling they have found an
underground cavern,
it was so big that all the
drilling site with all the
equipment and camps got
deep deep under the ground.
None dared to go down
there because the cavern
was filled with gas.
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So they ignited it so that
no poisonous gas could come
out of the hole,
and since then,
it’s burning,
already for 35 years
without any pause.
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Nobody knows how many
tons of excellent gas has
been burned for all those
years but it just seems
to be infinite there.
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