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     • 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.
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   Is Norilsk the coldest city in the world?

   • But few places get it quite as bad as Norilsk, Russia, where residents won’t see a sunrise until mid-January. Worse yet, it's arguably the coldest city in the world. 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.

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   Where is Norilsk located?

   • It is the world's northernmost city with more than 180,000 inhabitants, and the second-largest city (after Murmansk) inside the Arctic Circle. Norilsk and Yakutsk are the only large cities in the continuous permafrost zone. Norilsk is located atop some of the largest nickel deposits on Earth.

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   Is Norilsk a pleasant place to live?

   • Despite the environmental concerns, Norilsk is not a pleasant place to live. The city has an intensely cold climate with an average temperature below freezing, and the skies are typically windy and gray throughout the year. The weather is cold for approximately 77 percent of the time, and snowstorms are common on 130 days out of the year.

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   Is Norilsk a snowy city?

   • Then there's the snow. Norilsk “is covered with snow for about 270 days a year,” Vincze Miklós writes for io9, “and the inhabitants must deal with snowstorms one day out of every three.” It's also incredibly isolated. Of all the cities in the world with populations of 100,000 people or more, Norilsk is the farthest north.

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   Is Norilsk the world's most isolated city?

   • Norilsk, Russia, with over 100,000 people, is one of the world's most isolated cities. It is Russia's second-largest city inside the Arctic Circle, where you won't find any other cities with such a population north of it.

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   Why is Norilsk so cold?

   • It is Russia’s coldest and most polluted industrial city, and its richest — at least when measured by the value of its vast deposits of palladium, a rare mineral used in cellphones that sells for more than $1,000 an ounce. It is also dark. Starting about now, the sun stops rising, leaving Norilsk shrouded in the perpetual night of polar winter.

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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.

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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 a...

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   Jul 23, 2023 · According to the Norillag archives, over 16,000 prisoners died in exile in Norilsk as a result of forced labor, starvation, and intense cold during the years the camps were operational...

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   Dec 3, 2017 · Norilsk has prospered as the world’s largest producer of palladium, but workers pay a price in the brutal cold, winter darkness and isolation. Participants in a painting class.

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   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. (Credit: Elena...

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   Apr 2, 2015 · Intensely cold, the city's average temperature is subfreezing, and the skies are typically windy and gray throughout the year. The weather is cold roughly 77 percent of the time, and snowstorms are typical on 130 days out of the year.

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    May 20, 2024 · Norilsk is the world’s most northerly city with more than 100,000 inhabitants, and one of only three major cities located in the continuous permafrost zone. At 14 F/ -10 C it has the coldest mean annual temperature of any big city, while lows reach extremes of -63 F/ -53 C. in the winter.