The "words" in the interface of Arthur's helmet and on its case are meaningless babble, and consist of a chaotic mixture of Russian Cyrillics, misshapen Russian letters, misshapen Georgian alphabet, astrological signs, and nonexistent symbols.
The opening scene shows the Tunguska event as an explosion which destroys a small weald, and leaves surviving witnesses, who were standing a few hundred meters from its epicenter. The Tunguska explosion is estimated to have had the power of up to 80 megatons, and shattered over 2000 square kilometers of taiga, destroying over 80 million trees.