Links to original articles via Google translate to force translation into English. Each page renders in the original language, then switches to English after a few seconds.

Links to original articles via Google translate to force translation into English. Each page renders in the original language, then switches to English after a few seconds.

Links to Russian language articles about quarried Earth with Google-translate function built in. Each article should render in English after a few seconds.

This page collects together videos on grand-scale quarrying and terraforming, with links to subtitles. Videos are from various Russian sources, primarily by Alexei Kungurov and from Oleg Nestyagin's 'Dark Side' YouTube channel. This page was a test of a third-party video translation service. It didn't work as well as hoped but the videos may still be interesting, especially if you speak the native language.

Has anyone checked these sites for mines beneath them? Could they be ore dumps? At one time at the opening of the Olympics in London in 2012 there was a historical hint about this (the moment when the workers come out of the hill and start industrialization).

The reforestation of the Crimea, as well as the entire planet, apparently began with the founding of the Botanical Gardens. When reading about Botanical Gardens, pay attention to the date of foundation, last name and country of the founder. For example, the date of foundation of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden in Yalta is 1811.

We have today a huge number of artifacts that can not be repeated today due to the lack of technology, equipment and specialists, and which indicate that 200 years ago there was a global civilization on Earth compared to which we are children in the sandbox. A few examples...

Tens of millions more tons of precious metals were mined from the Dead Sea. Several tons of precious metals per day were mined in Baalbek, evaporating the largest river in ancient Lebanon, the Leonte. But they could have extracted the most from the Marianas Trench.

Champa Island is very popular with tourists cruising in the Arctic. And no wonder - it contains objects, the origin of which is still not clear, and no explanation seems likely in the near future.