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Soviet Gold Sat Trapped in a Sunken Submarine for 40 Years. Then, Divers Pulled Off a Daring Rescue.

More than 400 gold bars were on their way to the U.S. as payment for war materials when German ships sunk the HMS Edinburgh.

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465 Soviet gold bars were recovered from the wreck of the British warship HMS Edinburgh, which sank in the Barents Sea while carrying arms payments to the US during World War II. Divers spent 30 days in a pressurized chamber for the operation, which took place hundreds of meters deep.

·Ankara, Türkiye
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A secret transport of 465 gold ingots sent by Joseph Stalin to the United States, as a payment for war equipment, disappeared in 1942 with the sinking of the British cruiser HMS Edinburgh...

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Popular Mechanics broke the news on Friday, July 31, 2026.
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