Mirny is a little-known town in the Russian Far East, located in the Arkhangelsk Oblast of Siberia. Milner is a small area, with a core area of only 10 square kilometers, but it has a huge pit with a diameter of about 1,200 meters and a depth of more than 500 meters, making it a veritable "pit city".
In 1955, Soviet geologists discovered a huge diamond deposit here and sent a telegram to Khrushchev saying that "we have ignited the road to peace." In 1959, the former Soviet Union ** established an administrative region here, named "Mirny", which means peace.
For many years, the former Soviet Union has been carrying out a secret project in Mirny, which is actually a diamond mine. The Mirny Mine is one of the largest diamond mines in the world, and together with several other mines in the vicinity, it contributed 23% of the world's diamonds, bringing significant economic benefits to the former Soviet Union.
The Mirny mine grew larger and larger, gradually reaching the edge of the city's central area. In front of the huge potholes, everything in the city seems so insignificant. The stark contrast between the potholes and the city creates a spectacular and magical spectacle, like an alien scene. At the same time, the difficulty of mining and the input of labor gradually increased with the expansion of the pit. The potholes have also caused irreversible damage to the surface environment and become a huge scar on the earth. Because the crater is too large, a strong air flow forms above the crater, which affects the passage of aircraft. In 2004, the Mirny mine, which had been in operation for 46 years, was officially closed.
The Mirny diamond mine is now just an abandoned pit, and the cold weather has made it impossible for Mirny to develop tourism, and he once thought about landfilling it, but the huge investment has set them back by three points. Although the diamond mines brought enormous wealth to the former Soviet Union, Mirny remained one of the poorest places in the world.
The diamond mine created the magical pit city of Mirny, which is a symbolic memory of the development of the mining industry in the former Soviet Union and a microcosm of the extensive development of the former Soviet Union.