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Sep 2023

10m 8s

Lake Karachay (Classic)

SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura

About this episode

Lake Karachay in Ozersk, Russia is the site of a former secret Soviet Union nuclear facility - that’s inspired art despite the little that’s publicly known of the site.

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