* Astronomy

Meteorite "red key"

May 4, 1946 near the village of Spring Karmaskalinsky district of Bashkortostan has fallen meteorite, dubbed "Red key." A Local beekeeper went out to my garden to dig for potatoes. He was assisted by his wife. Suddenly they heard a sharp sound like a gunshot. The Beekeeper, a member of the imperialist war in 1914, knowing that such a gun shot, ordered his wife, "Get down!" But there was no explosion. Having surveyed the area, they found on the ground fragments of stone that hid the 'just in case' on the stove.
Information of the falling meteorite reached the well-known geologist and local historian FF Chebaevskogo. He quickly became interested in obtaining information and to learn about the place of the fall, and of the witnesses to the event.
The beekeeper who found the meteorite, gave scientists a ash-gray rock, mottled with numerous almost symmetrically round shallow hole with a diameter of 0.5 - 2 cm and a weight of 3960 grams. The landowner showed the impact site of the strange rock, but a thorough search has not resulted in more celestial stone fragments being found.
Source (Russian)