Door To Hell In Uzbekistan
This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it’s burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.
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Photos by John H.Bradley
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This is not hell. This is Gas Crater. There’s a gas under this hole. Once it started burning it’s hard to extinguish
The villagers in Derweze (or Darvaz) nicknamed the cavern “the door to hell” since it has been burning for almost 40 years. Turkmenistan is sometimes confused with Uzbekistan because of their close proximity and border disputes. Gas spilled in to the cavern by accident and the soviet government decided to ignite to prevent accidents. For a while it has been known that it’s methane gas seeping from a deep pocket underground. It’s far less harmful to burn it then let it dissipate into the atmosphere.
This is in Turkmenistan, not Uzbekistan. Research it properly