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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.
Architecturally, Norilsk is an ordinary Soviet city. With the exception of a couple of buildings, there are no frills here. Legion Media. “Norilsk is a very tough city, and you see it from...
- 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.
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
Jul 23, 2023 · NORILSK, Russia -- Photographer Aleksandr Kharitonov grew up in the remote Russian mining city of Norilsk, located above the Arctic Circle. His images of its landscapes, remnants of its...
Dec 3, 2017 · Around 175,000 people now live year-round in Norilsk. Beyond the city, which is 1,800 miles northeast of Moscow in northern Siberia, extends an endless, mostly uninhabited wilderness.
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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 in...
