Dungeons Institute of Permafrost (29 photos) Bashny.Net

Under the Permafrost Institute, located on the outskirts of Yakutsk, is also a dungeon (slightly less Igarka). It is mainly used as a warehouse - where you can find cores (soil column obtained while drilling), various devices and even stocks cranberries. In this cave for a long time nothing is measured, but occasionally there bring instruments for testing and calibration still at -8 to do it easier than at -48.
A few years ago there was an idea to clear part of the dungeon and led tours there - to show students and visiting tourists a rare permafrost. Although it is not a museum in the truest sense of the word - there are no exposures have appeared peculiar Igarki competitor ...