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Different departments of the South of Russia sent their representatives to the probable place of the fall but nevertheless nobody could find this stone (meteorite)…
The Geological and Mineralogical Museums of the Academy of Sciences announced a special reward for finding the meteorite find according to the following conditions:
The Geological and Mineralogical Museums of the Academy of Sciences will pay out in modern currency, one hundred (100) rubles in gold according to the currency exchange rate on this day (more than two and a half billion 1921 rubles). This reward was supported by a special fund for collecting of meteorites…
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From a leaflet of Academy of Science, 1923.
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The meteorite was found only in 1968 during plowing of the fields of the Leninsky collective farm. A first report about the find was received 11 years later (1979) from B.G. Nikiforova, a welder. The Tsarev meteorite shower is the biggest fall of a stony meteorite on the territory of the USSR.
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Никифоров - первооткрыватель метеорита Царев
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