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A Russian mini-submarine may have found billions of pounds worth of lost Tsarist gold on the floor of the world’s oldest and deepest freshwater lake in Siberia, it was revealed yesterday. Explorers have long searched for treasures dating from the Bolshevik Revolution when forces loyal to the deposed royal family fled the advancing Red Army.
Legend has it that 1,600 tons of gold, which could now be worth billions of pounds, was lost when anti-Communist commander Admiral Alexander Kolchak’s train plunged into Lake Baikal. Last year remnants of a train and ammunition boxes were found in the lake but in recent days the Mir-2 submersible found 'shiny metal objects' on the murky lake bottom, some 1,200 feet below the surface at Cape Tolsty.
'Deep-sea vehicles found rectangular blocks with a metallic gleam, like gold, 400 metres below the surface,' said one source.
Moscow News reported the story with the headline ‘Lost gold of the Whites found in Baikal’. Explorers attempted to grab hold of the shiny objects with the mini-sub’s manipulator arm but failed due to the loose gravel on the lake’s floor.
Sources say that the submariners know the exact spot and are planning a new mission to determine if they have found the gold, and if so to bring a sample to the surface.
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