Russian scientists to establish origin of Great Flood Russian researchers from the University of Siberia are planning on proving the theory of Bruce Masse, an environmental archaeologist with Los Alamos National Laboratory, who claims that the Great Flood of 2800 BCE came as a result of Earth’s collision with some heavenly body. Viacheslav Gusiakov, the laboratory’s director at the Calculus and Mathematical Geophysics Institute, said that the actual cause of the ancient global catastrophe could be established within a few months as soon the researchers complete their examining of the sand hill samples.