Kola Superdeep Borehole

The Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 is the deepest human-made hole on Earth, which attained maximum true vertical depth of 12,262 metres in 1989. It is the result of a scientific drilling effort to penetrate as deeply as possible into the Earth's crust conducted by the Soviet Union in the of the Kola Peninsula, near the Russian border with Norway.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: result of a scientific drilling project of the Soviet Union on the Kola Peninsula
  • Also known as: “Pozo de Kola, Rusia”, “SG-3”, and “Кольская сверхглубокая скважина”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zapolyarnyy.

Town
Photo: Andre Belozeroff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zapolyarny is a town in of , , located on the Kola Peninsula, 10 kilometers northeast of the Kola Superdeep Borehole project. is situated 9 km east of Kola Superdeep Borehole.

Kola Superdeep Borehole

Latitude
69.39624° or 69° 23′ 47″ north
Longitude
30.60895° or 30° 36′ 32″ east
Inception
May 24th, 1970
Open location code
9GXG9JW5+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1272210505
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­borehole
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q19572
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Kola Superdeep Borehole” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Shpimi super i thellë në Kola”
  • Arabic: “بئر كولا العميق”
  • Asturian: “Pozu perfondu de Kola”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kola dərin quyusu”
  • Basque: “Kolako putzu supersakona”
  • Belarusian: “Кольская звышглыбокая свідравіна”
  • Belarusian: “Кольская звышглыбокая сьвідравіна”
  • Bengali: “কোলা সুপারডিপ বোরহোল”
  • Bulgarian: “Колски свръхдълбок сондаж”
  • Catalan: “pou de Kola”
  • Catalan: “Pou de Kola”
  • Central Bikol: “Kola Superdeep Borehole”
  • Central Kurdish: “چاڵی گەورەی کۆلا”
  • Chinese: “科拉超深鑽”
  • Chinese: “科拉超深鑽孔”
  • Chinese: “科拉超深钻孔”
  • Czech: “Kolský superhluboký vrt”
  • Danish: “Kola superdybe borehul”
  • Danish: “SG3”
  • Dutch: “Kola superdiep boorgat”
  • Dutch: “Superdiep boorgat van Kola”
  • Estonian: “Koola ülisügav puurauk”
  • Finnish: “Kuolan supersyvä porausreikä”
  • Finnish: “SG-3”
  • French: “forage de Kola”
  • French: “forage de Zapoliarny”
  • French: “forage profond de Kola”
  • French: “forage SG-3”
  • French: “Forage SG-3”
  • French: “Forage superprofond de Kola”
  • French: “trou SG-3”
  • Georgian: “კოლის ზეღრმა ჭაბურღილი”
  • German: “Kola-Bohrung”
  • German: “SG-3”
  • German: “Кольская сверхглубокая скважина”
  • Greek: “Γεώτρηση στη Χερσόνησο Κόλα”
  • Gujarati: “કોલા હોલ”
  • Hebrew: “קולה קידוח סופר-עמוק”
  • Hebrew: “קידוח קולה”
  • Hindi: “कोला अति-गहन वेधन छिद्र”
  • Hungarian: “Kola-félszigeti fúrás”
  • Hungarian: “Kola-félszigeti szupermély fúrás”
  • Hungarian: “szuper-mélyfúrás a Kola-félszigeten”
  • Hungarian: “szupermély fúrás a Kola-félszigeten”
  • Hungarian: “Szupermély fúrás a Kola-félszigeten”
  • Indonesian: “Lubang bor superdalam Kola”
  • Italian: “Kola Superdeep Borehole”
  • Italian: “Pozzo superprofondo di Kola”
  • Japanese: “コラ半島超深度掘削坑”
  • Korean: “콜라 시추공”
  • Korean: “콜라 초깊이 시추공”
  • Latin: “Foramen Kolaense altius”
  • Latvian: “Kolas superdziļais urbums”
  • Latvian: “Kolas urbums”
  • Latvian: “SG-3”
  • Macedonian: “kola superdeep borehole”
  • Macedonian: “Кољска ултрадлабока бушотина”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det superdype borehullet på Kolahalvøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dypeste borehull”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kola Superdeep Borehole”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Superdype borehullet på Kolahalvøya”
  • Norwegian: “Det superdype borehullet på Kolahalvøya”
  • Persian: “چاه ابرژرف کولا”
  • Persian: “چاه حفاري كولا”
  • Persian: “چاه حفاری کولا”
  • Persian: “چاهٔ حفاری کولا”
  • Persian: “چاه کولا”
  • Polish: “Sg 3”
  • Polish: “SG-3”
  • Polish: “Кольская сверхглубокая скважина”
  • Portuguese: “Poço superprofundo de Kola”
  • Portuguese: “Poço Superprofundo de Kola”
  • Romanian: “Gaura de foraj de la Kola”
  • Romanian: “Kola superdeep borehole”
  • Russian: “Кольская сверхглубокая скважина”
  • Russian: “Кольская скважина”
  • Russian: “СГ-3”
  • Sardinian: “Putzu superfundudu de Kola”
  • Serbian: “Кољска ултрадубока бушотина”
  • Spanish: “Pozo superprofundo de Kola”
  • Swedish: “Kolas superdjupa borrhål”
  • Swedish: “SG-3”
  • Tajik: “Чоҳи абаржарфи Кола”
  • Tatar: “Кола бик тирән скважинасы”
  • Tatar: “Кола үтә тирән борауламасы”
  • Thai: “Kola Superdeep Borehole”
  • Turkish: “Kola derin sondajı”
  • Ukrainian: “Кольська надглибока свердловина”
  • Urdu: “کولا سپرڈیپ کنواں”
  • Vietnamese: “Siêu lỗ khoan Kola”

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