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The Footnote June 24, 2026 · Lake Cheko, Siberia

The Small Siberian Lake That Some Italian Geologists Think Is the Tunguska Crater

Lake Cheko is a 500-metre-wide elliptical lake about 8 km northwest of the Tunguska blast epicentre. In 2007 an Italian research team proposed that the lake is the impact crater of a small unfragmented portion of the 1908 Tunguska body. The interpretation is substantially contested.

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The Footnote June 24, 2026 · Lake Cheko, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia

The Siberian Lake Some Geologists Think Was Made by the Tunguska Object

Lake Cheko sits about 8 kilometres northwest of the [Tunguska blast](/articles/tunguska-event-1908) epicentre. It is small, oval, unusually deep, and has no documented existence before 1929. An Italian-Russian team has spent twenty years arguing that a fragment of the 1908 impactor punched it. Most other researchers disagree.

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