Cratere Patomskiy
Russia
Lat: 59,284874 Lng: 116,589285
"Il Nido della Fenice"
Patomskiy crater, made of shattered calcareous blocks on a slope of Patomskiy upland. The crater site is in the north of the Irkutsk region of southeastern Siberia, 360 km from the district center Bodaibo. It was discovered in 1949 by a geologist named Vadim Kolpakov. It is a large mound of limestone with a diameter of about 160 meters and a height of about 40 m, while the crest's diameter is 76 m. The cone's crown is formed like a ring shaft. In the center of the crater is a mound with a height of about 12 m. The volume of the crater is estimated as 230-250 thousand cubic meters, with a weight of about one million tons. Another name is Kolpakov Cone (Russian: ????? ?????????); the Yakutian name is translated as "the nest of a fiery eagle".

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