Nad sybirom v 1908 roci vidsuvsya vzryv yakyy zruynuvav 80 milioniv derev

In the early morning of 30 June 1908, something exploded over Siberia. The event shattered the normal stillness of the sparsely populated taiga, so powerful that it flattened an area of forest 2,150 square kilometres (830 square miles) in size - felling an estimated 80 million trees.