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“Norilsk is a very tough city, and you see it from the beginning,” says U.S. Professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University William Brumfield. He visited the city in October 2016 on the...
- Anna Sorokina
Mar 21, 2019 · Located 400km (249 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, Norilsk is one of the coldest cities on Earth. The average temperature in winter is -30C, and it can dip below -55C. “The main idea was to...
What life is like in Norilsk, the world’s northernmost industrial city - Russia Beyond. Factory routine. Pavel Kuzmichev. Follow Russia Beyond on Instagram. More than a third of the world's...
- Anna Sorokina
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.
Oct 22, 2024 · Norilsk – an ex-USSR town deep in north Siberia – has been given this unenviable title by multiple sources over the years. And it’s not hard to see why. The city sits within the Arctic ...
Dec 3, 2017 · NORILSK, Russia — Blessed with a cornucopia of precious metals buried beneath a desert of snow, but so bereft of sunlight that nights in winter never end, Norilsk, 200 miles north of the Arctic...
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Dec 26, 2018 · One of two Siberian cities built in the continuous permafrost zone, during the winter, the city of more than 175,000 people can see cold snaps as brutally low as -78°F. Overall, Norilsk boasts...
