In another Buryat area also in Irkutsk region military had tested bombs even after 1958 ban of nuclear bomb tests. All this nuclear-toxic $hit was buried under ground just right to Buryat rural settlements.
Nuclear test was held on 31 July 1982 and was cold 'Rift-3 test'. Militaries had dig up a 800m tube only 7 km far from Buryat village of Borokhal. Militaries closed the area and ordered the population of the nearby village to stay and wait at the local voleyball playgrounds.
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