Maroš Barok

Maroš Barok is a renowned Slovak geologist and gem expert, celebrated for his extensive collection of over fifty thousand minerals, rocks, gemstones, and fossils. He operates a unique geological museum in Bojnice, which showcases his remarkable finds, including a moon meteorite and the largest synthetic ruby in Europe. Recently, he gained attention for acquiring a previously classified device from the socialist era capable of producing synthetic sapphires, which were used in the Vostok 1 spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit the Earth, into space.