Workers Drain River For First Time In 70 Years, Then The Excavator Hits Something Solid

When a small crew of Russian workers began draining a forest river in the Bryansk region for the first time in over seven decades, nobody expected to find anything beneath the water. The project was routine — part of a regional effort to clear sediment and restore the natural flow of waterways that had been neglected since the Soviet era. Locals had fished along these banks for generations.