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An old Russian legend has it that just after god created the world he was flying across it with all the treasures of the earth in the back of his sledge. He hadn’t tied them down securely and gold, diamonds and other precious metals and stones were scattered across northern Russia as he passed over it. Once he realized what had happened, he went back to what is now the tundra of Russia’s Siberian far east and froze the ground solid to protect these natural riches from money-grubbing hands.
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