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The beach where nature has transformed a Russian dumping ground for old vodka bottles into a place of beauty because waves have smoothed broken glass into ‘pebbles’ . Glass originally comes from silica, or sand.
- Glass Beach on Ussuri Bay, near Vladivostok, was a Soviet dump for old bottles
- Over time, the jagged glass smoothed into kaleidoscopic pebbles
- The area is now called Glass Beach and is protected by Russian authorities