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This is the first confirmed witnessed meteorite fall on the territory of Russia, samples of which were preserved.
The day was clear, silent, and warm…. At 3 in the afternoon… when I went of my house suddenly I heard an unusual muffled noise…like a drum without snapping and beating, even and continuous, right above my head…as it seemed to me. In three days I heard that on the adjoining fields of the Zhigaylovka Sloboda, a stone fell from the air…ten versts from the town of Bobrik….We looked at the stone with great curiosity: and both the internal and external parts of it were very memorable for me, so in several years if I could see the stone from which a piece was broken off, I would easily recognize it.
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A.R. Gorodnitskiy
Doctor of Sumy Uezd
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