Report from the Death Valley

V.V. Vlassov, V.Е. Repin

The Valley of Death… When you enter this "wicked" name in any search engine of the World Wide Web, you will receive information both on a hot and lifeless desert at the border of California and Nevada, and on mass burial grounds of Russian soldiers near Leningrad, and even on the uranium mines of Yakutia, where thousands of prisoners found their death…
Also you will find a scant description of the amazing valley in the Kronotsky reserve, located in Kamchatka, rumored to conceal a threat to all living things on Earth. In the fall of 2008, an expedition of "microbe hunters" consisting of researchers from the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) and specialists from Moscow went there. And today, together with these scientists, our readers have a rare chance to make a safe journey to one of the legendary and little-studied corners of Earth

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