To the 75th anniversary of the discovery of a unique geological structure - the patom crater

In 1949, a geological expedition led by V.V. Kolpakov discovered an amazing natural object, later called the Patom crater, which has become a mystery of the relief of Eastern Siberia to the present day, since it has no analogues in the world. The first special scientific expedition, very poorly equipped due to the difficulty of delivering complex equipment to this anomalous structure, lost in the remote taiga far from civilization, took place only in 1963. Starting in 2005, the crater became the object of comprehensive research by many expeditions, which included specialists from various scientific fields. When studying the larches on the slopes and inside the crater, its relatively young age was calculated (several centuries). But the Patom crater remains an unresolved problem in the issue of clarifying its genesis and thus is the subject of further study for scientists of the XXI century.

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