The Moment of History on Instagram: "On June 17, 1966, Kazakhstan. A powerful explosion occurred at one of the oil wells near the town of Urtazym. Oil and gas burst out, turning the entire site into a hell on earth — flames rose tens of meters high, and the temperature exceeded 1,500°C. No equipment could get closer than a kilometer. The fire couldn’t be extinguished for weeks, and then Soviet scientists proposed an unthinkable solution — to use a nuclear explosion. On September 30, 1966, a 30-k