Darvaza Gas Crater: The Soviet Gateway to Hell

Check out Squarespace: http://squarespace.com/GEOGRAPHICS for 10% off on your first purchase. → Subscribe for new videos two times per week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw?sub_confirmation=1 Our sister channels: Biographics - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ TopTenz - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ This video is #sponsored by Squarespace. Source/Further reading: BBC Reel: https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08vxl52/how-the-soviets-accidentally-discovered-the-gates-of-hell- National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/07/140716-door-to-hell-darvaza-crater-george-kourounis-expedition/ Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/nnq7wz/turkmenistan-has-its-very-own-gate-to-hell Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/giant-hole-ground-has-been-fire-more-40-years-180951247/ History of gas extraction in Turkmenistan: http://www.rpi-research.com/content/Sample_OG_Turkmenistan_eng.pdf President doing donuts around the crater in 2019: https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/web/a28661297/darvaza-crater-door-to-hell/ Notes on post-Soviet Turkmenistan: https://carnegieendowment.org/2017/01/30/turkmenistan-at-twenty-five-high-price-of-authoritarianism-pub-67839 History of Turkmenistan: https://www.britannica.com/place/Turkmenistan/Turkmen-tribes-and-Russian-invasion More on Turkmenistan’s history: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/turkmenistan/narratives/background/history Turkmenistan’s economic crisis: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2019/7/15/hyperinflation-and-hunger-turkmenistan-on-edge-of-catastrophe