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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 Norillag system of Gulag labour camp was established and prisoners began construction work on the Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Plant.
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.
- Diana Magnay
Norilsk, city, Krasnoyarsk kray (territory), central Russia, in the Rybnaya Valley amid the Putoran Mountains. Founded in 1935, Norilsk lies north of the Arctic Circle and is one of the world’s leading producing centres for nickel and platinum. Copper is also mined.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 23, 2023 · On July 15, 1953, the working settlement of Norilsk of the Dudinka district, Taimyr national district, Krasnoyarsk region was transformed into a city of regional subordination.
Norilsk was founded in 1935 as a site of industry, to be able to mine the ore. In 1939, the decision was taken to also build a city. Norilsk got the status of a city in 1953. Norilsk is the northernmost city with more than 100.000 inhabitants.
Though some very modest settlement occurred in the 1920s, Norilsk grew rapidly in the late 1930s with an influx of convicts and extraction of mineral deposits. The city now is the world’s northernmost city of at least 100,000 people (177 thousand as of 2012).
