Kola Superdeep Borehole
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The Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 is the deepest human-made hole on Earth, which attained maximum true vertical depth of 12,262 metres in 1989. It is the result of a scientific drilling effort to penet
Superstructure of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, 2007
Kola Superdeep Borehole, commemorated on a 1987 USSR stamp
The borehole site in 2012
The borehole (welded shut), August 2012
Uralmash
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Uralmash is a heavy machine production business of the Russian engineering corporation OMZ. Its facility is located in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and it is reported to employ around 16,500 people. The sur
Kola Superdeep Borehole
…22,340 ft) deep, preceded Kola SG-3, which was originally intended to reach 7,000 metres (23,000 ft) deep. Drilling at Kola SG-3 began in 1970 using the Uralmash-4E, and later the Uralmash-15000 series drilling rig. A total of five 23-centimetre-diameter (9 in) boreholes were drilled, two branching from a central…
T-34 tanks produced at Uralmash (1942)
Uralmash-manufactured dragline excavator in the Narva oil shale open pit mine in Estonia.
Uralmash entrance gate in 2019