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  Lake Disappears
Emergency Situations Ministry officers Dmitry Zaytsev, left, and Vladimir Gryaznov walk bewildered on the bottom of the White Lake which held more than 1 million cubic meters of water but disappeared into the mysterious crater, in the backdrop behind Zaytsev. The trees sitting in the crater slid down from the woody shore. Near the village of Bolotnikovo. The Nizhny Novgorod region. Russia. May 26, 2005.
Emergency Situations Ministry officers Dmitry Zaytsev, left, and Vladimir Gryaznov walk bewildered on the bottom of the White Lake which held more than 1 million cubic meters of water but disappeared into the mysterious crater, in the backdrop behind them. The trees sitting in the crater slid down from the woody shore. Near the village of Bolotnikovo. The Nizhny Novgorod region. Russia. May 26, 2005.
Emergency Situations Ministry officers Dmitry Zaytsev, climbing up bewildered from the bottom of the White Lake which held more than 1 million cubic meters of water but disappeared into the mysterious crater. Near the village of Bolotnikovo. The Nizhny Novgorod region. Russia. May 26, 2005.
Bolotnikovo resident Fyodor Dobryakov, 70, who first discovered that the lake was gone, demonstrates on his arm the size of the carp he used to catch in the White Lake. His wife Alexandra Rubtsova watches proudly as they walk their goats through their yard. The village of Bolotnikovo. The Nizhny Novgorod region. Russia. May 26, 2005.
Emergency Situations Ministry officers Dmitry Zaytsev, left, and Vladimir Gryaznov walk bewildered on the bottom of the White Lake which held more than 1 million cubic meters of water but disappeared into the mysterious crater, in the backdrop behind Zaytsev. The trees sitting in the crater slid down from the woody shore. Near the village of Bolotnikov, the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia. May 26, 2005.
   
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