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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.
Oct 22, 2024 · Norilsk was built in the 1930s on the site of a former Gulag labour camp, after geologists discovered huge deposits of nickel, copper and cobalt. It was largely constructed by Soviet prisoners, an ...
Jul 3, 2020 · Norilsk was built in Stalin's times by gulag prisoners. This gritty industrial city is a testament to their endurance both of the cruelty of Stalin's regime and of the harsh polar climate. There were no thoughts then on how to build to protect the environment, just to survive it.
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Mar 21, 2019 · Norilsk was designed in the 1930s by architects imprisoned in Stalin’s camps, and built by gulag prisoners. The earliest buildings are Stalinist in style. (Credit: Elena Chernyshova)
Jan 9, 2015 · Special Project: Discovering Russia. By 1939 the Norilsk plant had produced an intermediate product known as matte (a nickel sulfide aggregate), and by mid-1942, Norilsk achieved production of...
Norilsk was initially constructed using the forced labor of the inmates of the Norillag gulag camp (which was shut down in 1956).
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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...
