The shell of what is believed to be a Russian space rocket has washed up in a flooded Siberian village.
Investigators and technical experts were called in to try to identify the object.
Alexei Yaskin is a professor of aero-space engineering at Biisk Technology University said:
"This looks like the first stage, judging by its size. Its diameter is approximately 2 (meters) 400 (millimeters) and length about 7 meters. In order to identify which type of destroyed rocket it belonged to, we need to come closer to its shell, but there is no such option at the moment."
It is unclear how the purported space rocket got there.