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  • Inside the Amazing Permafrost Ice Tunnels Built by Exiled German Genius in Cold War

    01/30/2018 11:36:17 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 20 replies
    Siberia Times ^ | 7 January 2018 | Olga Gertcyk1
    Will no-one save Gustav Backmann’s unique Arctic fish freezer designed to maintain a temperature of between -12C to -14C all year round?The tunnels go deep inside the permafrost in Novy Port, a subterranean labyrinth that is a relic of a former age and a triumph of supreme German engineering in the most inhospitable conditions. In area, at 7,000 square metres, these tunnels and chambers cover a larger space than Donald Trump’s White House in Washington DC. They are all underground, hewn out of the solid frozen ground by labourers, like Backmann, forcibly exiled here deep in the Soviet era. Built...