俄探險隊在廢棄煤礦發現鉅額蘇聯時期鈔票

A group of explorers in Russia have found around a billion roubles in old Soviet money at an abandoned mine, but it's all completely worthless.

日前，俄羅斯一隊探險者在一座廢棄的礦洞裏，找到了數十億前蘇聯時期的紙幣，但現在已經毫無價值了。

The group from Saint Petersburg, who publish a blog on abandoned sites across Russia, came across the money after following rumours that large quantities of cash had been dumped in old missile silos near Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Komsomolskaya Pravda news website reports.

據《共青團真理報》新聞網站報道，這隊來自聖彼得堡的探險者，會發表有關全俄羅斯荒廢地點的博客。他們在傳言的引領下，在莫斯科附近的前蘇聯廢棄導彈發射井裏找到了大量現金。

After travelling for several hours across rough terrain in Russia's Vladimir region, they found the mine overflowing with cash.

在俄羅斯弗拉基米爾地區探索了幾個小時後，他們發現了這一充滿大量現金的礦洞。

The site contains an estimated one billion roubles in Soviet Union banknotes of various denominations issued between 1961 and 1991, all no longer legal tender in the Russian Federation.

這個礦洞裏有1961年到1991年發行的約10億的蘇聯盧布，但是在如今的俄羅斯聯邦已經不再有效了。

Team member Olga Bogdanova said that the sight of such "riches" was difficult to convey in words.

探險隊成員奧莉加·波格丹諾娃表示，該景象的奢華難以用語言來形容。

"There's delight and some sadness, because you realise that this is a bygone era which will never return, that all this money would have been more than enough for anybody," she said.

她說道：“這讓人悲喜交加，因爲你會意識到那是一個再也回不去的輝煌時代，這些錢本應該對任何人來說都足夠了。”