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Vorkuta is the fourth largest city north of the Arctic Circle and the easternmost town in Europe. It is also the coldest city in all of Europe, boasting a record cold temperature of −52 °C (−61 °F). [9]
Pavel Kuzmichev. We arrive in Vorkuta, the world's fourth largest city above the Arctic Circle, in the last days of November and immediately find ourselves at the ‘Festival of the North’. It ...
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Vorkuta is famous for its vast coal mines that were once home to one of the harshest labor camps in Stalinist Russia. Today, this isolated city in the extreme north of European Russia is one of...
Vorkuta, city, Komi republic, northwestern Russia, on the Vorkuta River. Coal mining began in the area in 1932, but the industry and city did not grow significantly until World War II. Initially the coal exploitation used penal labour. The area subsequently became the site of some of Stalin’s.
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Mar 5, 2021 · These are the abandoned ghost towns towns that surround the coal-mining center of Vorkuta in Russia’s Arctic north, swathed in snow and ice following recent brutally cold temperatures.
Apr 10, 2021 · VORKUTA, Russia -- In May 1931, a group of 39 prisoners toiling in the Soviet Union's expanding network of forced labor camps set off north from the town of Ukhta to explore the vast coal basin...
Vorkuta's surroundings offer many opportunities for hiking, skiing and water trips. You can join a group and visit the shores of the Kara Sea or admire the beauty of the Polar Urals. The period from late June to mid-September is considered the best for outdoor trips.
