> In 2007 the scientific team was dissolved and the equipment > was transferred to a private company and partially liquidated. > In 2008 the company was liq

> In 2007 the scientific team was dissolved and the equipment > was transferred to a private company and partially liquidated. > In 2008 the company was liquidated due to unprofitability > and the site was abandoned. Ah, the time-honored Russian method of privatisation known as "raspil"! I remember reading a Soviet sci-fi novel some time in the 80s in which a pillar of super-rigid exotic matter escapes from a superdeep borehole and causes a short-circuit with the Earth's magnetosphere, destroying electric generators worldwide. It's interesting to read about the possible inspiration for that exotic disaster scenario!