Talk:Lake Cheko

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[edit] Known landmark

Nobody can give the "citation needed", because the statement "Lake Cheko was a known landmark on the Strelka-Vanavara trail before the Tunguska event.[citation needed]" is wrong. The origin of this legend is due to the confusion between "river" and "lake" Cheko.

The older version is correct: "However, the fact that eyewitnesses of the Tunguska event refer to river[1] Cheko but never name such a remarkable landmark as the lake Cheko favors the hypothesis that the lake did not exist before the 1908 Event[2]."

No other citation of the "river" or the "lake" Cheko exists apart the four citations translated in http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/APS-testimonies.htm . I am sure of that because I have read not only Vasilyev's Testimonies, but also all the original testimonies now stored in the Archives of the Meteorite Committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pclong2 (talk • contribs)