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Inside the amazing permafrost ice tunnels built by exiled German genius in Cold War
Description: The tunnels go deep inside the permafrost in Novy Port, a subterranean labyrinth that is a relic of a former age and a triumph of supreme German engineering in the most inhospitable conditions. They are all underground, hewn out of the solid frozen ground by labourers forcibly exiled here deep in the Soviet era. Built in the 1950s, this intriguing monument remains the world's largest permafrost store built by manual labour. The reason the tunnels were built was to preserve newly caught fish before processing and export to western Europe, then a key earner for the Soviet state. [Source: Siberian Times]
URL: http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/inside-the-amazing-permafrost-ice-tunnels-built-by-exiled-german-genius-in-cold-war/
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Source: Siberian Times
Publish Date: 1/17/2018
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