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The laboratory itself is located in a 4,000 meter long horizontal tunnel mined specifically for this purpose; this is in contrast to most underground physics laboratories which are placed in abandoned or still in-use mines. The entrance of the tunnel is at a valley at 1,700 meters high from sea level
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In addition to the big experiments BUST and SAGE, a number of smaller experiments that benefit from the low-background location have taken place at BNO; for example, the isotopic composition of the lunar samples brought by
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The next experiment at BNO was the Gallium-Germanium Neutrino Telescope (GGNT) as part of the SAGE experiment. It is located 3,500 meters from the tunnel entrance. It started in 1986 and was still in operation as of 2017.
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The first underground experiment, the BUST, started in 1977. It is located 550 meters from the tunnel entrance. It detected
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deep (2,100 meters) as well as a number of ground facilities. The Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (
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in 1989. The Carpet cosmic ray experiment continues as of 2017, and it is being upgraded to use a
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The BNO-observatory is planning (as of 2021) a new major detector, the
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The first experiment undertaken at BNO was not underground; it was the
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and the tunnel itself is located under the 4,000 meters tall mountain
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As of 2017, the director of the observatory is Valery Kuzminov.
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Photographs of the Baksan Observatory via englishrussia.com
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Photographs of the Baksan Observatory via nytimes.com
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Baksan Neutrino Observatory is located in Russia

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