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A hundred kilometers northeast of the small sea lies the Zhamanshin crater, created a million years ago by the impact of a gigantic meteorite, making it one of the most recent and violent on the planet. The crater is almost 15 km long and 300 m deep. The energy released was equivalent to several dozen Hiroshima bombs, and the impact caused fires and smoke that wiped out all plant and animal species within a radius of several hundred kilometers.