Video: Gates of Hell: Darvaza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
From time to time, in yellow newspapers and on unscientific-fiction sites, there are reports that scientists, ufologists or astronauts allegedly "found hell": on the Sun, on the Moon, in the center of the Galaxy, in their cellar. Of course, it's impossible to believe in this hellish nonsense. Impossible until you see " Gates of hell"- a burning crater in the middle of the desert in Turkmenistan. If somewhere in the world there is a gate to the underworld, then it is there, in Darvaza.
The very name "Darvaza" means " Gates", and an absolutely amazing story is connected with this. The fact is that this is the name not of the crater itself, but of the village closest to it. And when she received it, no gates of hell were still observed nearby. They appeared, like all the most terrible and beautiful in the world, thanks to human intervention. In the early 70s, geologists discovered a promising gas field (in Turkmenistan, they are not uncommon at all). Drilling and production began, but in the course of the work the geologists stumbled upon a "surprise": an underground cave. An oil rig, equipment and transport fell into it, but, fortunately, there were no casualties.
Natural gas, of course, began to flow from a hole in the ground. To prevent local residents from poisoning themselves with harmful compounds, it was decided to set fire to this gas, hoping that it would soon burn out and go out. As you can imagine, the crater has not yet died out, and is not even going to. Crater width is 60 meters, depth - 20 … An ominous bright flame sticks out its "fingers" from it day and night - but if it somehow does not touch it during the day, then in the dark " Gates of hell"manifest themselves in all their glory: the cavity looks as if it came down in flesh and color from a medieval engraving.
Thousands of tourists come to look at the entrance to the underworld: their interest is fueled by the yet unfulfilled decree of the new president of Turkmenistan on the need to fill the pit of fire. Earlier, in 2004, by order of Turkmenbashi, the village of Darvaza was demolished. Maybe this is some kind of evil rock?
Anyway, " gates of hell"in Darvaza they are deeply symbolic. We have already seen that nature can respond to human intervention with divine beauty - as happened with the little geyser Fly, a man-made miracle of nature. Or maybe with a hellish flame. heaven and hell - these are, as Khayyam said, two halves of the human soul.
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