Stone that propped up a wheel in Altai for 20 years recognized as the republic's first meteorite — “Chulyshman”
The 2005 find near the Katu-Yaryk pass was entered into the Meteoritical Bulletin on September 22, 2026 under the name Chulyshman: it is the first officially registered meteorite of the Altai Republic and the 160th in Russia. Scientists of the IGM SB RAS classified it as an ordinary H5 chondrite and estimated its time on Earth at no less than several hundred years.
Aziz Karimov