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- Therefore, it has been designed to endure the severe winters – the buildings are on stilts and the entrances are high to ensure residents are not blocked in by snow. Additionally, the city offers protection from the bone-chilling winds by building houses close to each other to create an anti-wind ‘wall’ of sorts.
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Norilsk was initially constructed using the forced labor of the inmates of the Norillag gulag camp (which was shut down in 1956).
- Anna Sorokina
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.
- Diana Magnay
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)
However, unlike in St. Petersburg, the buildings in Norilsk stand on stilts and are built to withstand the winds like a single wall.
Jul 23, 2023 · Norilsk was founded at the end of the 1920s, but the official date of the city's foundation is traditionally held to be 1935, when the gulag labor camp known as Norillag was established and...
Jan 9, 2015 · Construction, primarily with prison labor, began in 1951 on streets of monumental buildings with designs that resembled the Soviet neoclassicism of Leningrad. Two years later, the Norilsk...
Visitors stroll through the gulag memorial. Gulag prisoners built much of the Norilsk mining complex and labored in Norilsk's nickel and copper mines. At its peak Norillag housed more than 72,000 prisoners.
