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So Leonard Koolik was a Russian meteorologist and meteorite hunter. He came and convinced that something from space had fallen over Siberia. You got to remember at the time you didn't have the media to the extent that we do today. So we were here this guy who is up there in Siberia wanting to kind of get to the bottom of this. 1921 at the age of 24, he tried to reach the site, but the region was so inaccessible that he failed initially. He just couldn't get over it though, he didn't let it go. He made another attempt in 1927, nearly 19 years after the original event, and he reached the blast zone. He was of course looking for a crater or something from space that landed. He expected to find meteorite fragments and imagined a big kelk of iron.