[post_page_title]Mirny Diamond Mine: Eastern Siberia, Russia[/post_page_title]
Stalin seemed to be a pretty desperate man when it came to pleasing his people. He ordered the construction of this massive man-made hole to produce industrial diamonds, but the mine named Mirny proved to be to heavy a burden to bare. Now the second largest man-made hole in the world (and most abandoned), Mirny remains incomplete and totally useless to society. Today, it’s 1,722 feet (525 meters) deep and 3,900 feet wide across. The site is off-limits to helicopters since they could get sucked in to metaphorical black hole.
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