A Brief History of Dima the Mammoth

Once, back in 1977, on a June day in the upper reaches of the Kolyma River on the territory of the Magadan Region, tirelessly and sparing no effort, brave comrades with shovels and no less brave comrades, working bulldozer workers from the prospecting artel under the sonorous name "Banner", were clearing the area for washing gold in the name of a bright, great and wonderful future of Soviet communism [1].





Work in the mines is always in full swing.
Work in the mines is always in full swing.

So one of the bulldozer drivers, whose name is now engraved in the annals of history as the name of the first person in the country who found the first and whole mammoth, took over the night shift to clear up the rubble. At the next visit to the clearing object, taking apart the blockages, he accidentally caught the corpse of this very mammoth with a bulldozer knife [2]. Noticing in time that he had dug out something amazing, caught in the headlights like a dark silhouette of a cow or some kind of falling, he stopped and decided to examine this find.





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