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- Built on the bones of slave prison labourers, Norilsk began as an outpost of Stalin's Gulag, a place so harsh that, according to one estimate, of 650,000 prisoners who were sent here between 1935 and 1956, around 250,000 died from cold, starvation or overwork.
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Coordinates: 69°20′N 88°13′E. Norilsk (Russian: Нори́льск, IPA: [nɐˈrʲilʲsk]) is a closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km east of the Yenisey River and 1,500 km north of Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk is 300 km north of the Arctic Circle and 2,400 km from the North Pole.
Norilsk (1,800 miles from Moscow) has neither ancient fortresses, nor sumptuous estates. Winter lasts nine months a year, and the short summer doesn’t even melt the snow.
- Anna Sorokina
The city was founded in 1935 by prisoners of the ‘Norillag’ labor camp and, following the latter's closure in 1956, young specialists started arriving from the whole of the Soviet Union.
- Anna Sorokina
Apr 2, 2015 · Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Norilsk became the main center of the company Norilsk Nickel, the world's leading producer of nickel and palladium, with 17 percent and 41 percent of world production, respectively. Nowadays, Norilsk Nickel brings in 2 percent of Russia's national GDP.
Jul 23, 2023 · Today, Norilsk is home to roughly 180,000 people, though access is restricted and special permission must be obtained to visit. Kharitonov's body of work encompasses nearly 55 years of...
At first glance, Norilsk, situated in the north of Krasnoyarsk Territory (in Siberia), looks like a typical industrial city built according to Soviet architectural canons: official buildings...
Dec 3, 2017 · Built on the bones of slave prison laborers, Norilsk began as an outpost of Stalin’s Gulag, a place so harsh that, according to one estimate, of 650,000 prisoners who were sent here between...
