the government of Murmansk region are going to restore the Kola superdeep borehole is a unique object since the Soviet Union in the Pechengsky district of the Arctic, through which scientists were able to obtain rock samples from a depth of over 12 kilometers. This was announced by Vice-Governor of the region Olga Kuznetsova.
– the object that we constantly get requests from tour groups visiting the region, she said. – The restoration of the Kola superdeep borehole went into the project concept for the development of tourism and creation of tourist complex in the village of liinakhamari.
Today, the Kola superdeep borehole is considered as a landmark of the region, which, along with other objects are able to attract in the Arctic tourists. However, the entire technological complex wells completely destroyed. In order for this object to become attractive for visitors to the Arctic, it must be restored from a state of ruin. According to Olga Kuznetsova, for that the regional government calculates options to pass the Kola superdeep borehole in the Federal property. This would allow to obtain funds for the restoration of the Kola superdeep borehole from Federal sources.
we will Remind, recently in the Murmansk region, were shooting a mystical Thriller “Kola superdeep”.
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experimental support of the Kola superdeep borehole (SG-3) is the deepest excavation in the world, having scientific importance. Was part of the system deep wells in the USSR. In 1997, listed in the Guinness Book of records as the deepest human intervention in the earth’s crust. This achievement about so far nobody has been able to surpass. As a result of drilling, which with interruptions was conducted from 1970 to 1991, the depth of the borehole was 12261 meter, the diameter of the upper part – 92 cm, diameter bottom – 21.5 inches. During the study he received a lot of valuable information about the bowels of the earth.
