Vorkuta - Wikipedia
Vorkuta is the fourth largest city north of the Arctic Circle and the easternmost town in Europe. It is also the coldest city in all of Europe, boasting a record cold temperature of −52 °C (−61 °F).
Vorkutlag - Wikipedia
The Vorkuta Corrective Labor Camp (Russian: Воркутинский исправительно-трудовой лагерь, romanized: Vorkutinsky ispravitel'no-trudovoy lager'), commonly known as Vorkutlag (Воркутлаг), was a major Gulag labor camp in the Soviet Union located in Vorkuta, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ...
Vorkuta: How the legendary Russian Arctic Circle city lives today
5 天之前 · We arrive in Vorkuta, the world's fourth largest city above the Arctic Circle, in the last days of November and immediately find ourselves at the ‘Festival of the North’. It was...
Vorkuta - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vorkuta (Russian: Воркута́; Komi: Вӧркута, Vörkuta; Nenets for "the abundance of bears", "bear corner") [8] is a coal-mining town in northern Komi Republic, Russia. It is located right above the Arctic Circle and built near the river Vorkuta .
Vorkuta | Coal Mining, Gulag Camps, Arctic Circle | Britannica
Vorkuta, city, Komi republic, northwestern Russia, on the Vorkuta River. Coal mining began in the area in 1932, but the industry and city did not grow significantly until World War II. Initially the coal exploitation used penal labour. The area subsequently became the site of some of Stalin’s.
Inside Russia’s deep frozen ghost towns | CNN
2021年3月5日 · These are the abandoned ghost towns towns that surround the coal-mining center of Vorkuta in Russia’s Arctic north, swathed in snow and ice following recent brutally cold temperatures.
Vorkuta Gulag, The Soviets' Most Notorious Forced Labor Camp
2022年8月10日 · From the 1920s until the 1950s, millions of people passed through Soviet gulags, remote labor camps where political prisoners, common criminals, and rebellious peasants were forced to work. But few were as infamous as the gulags at Vorkuta.
Walking in the gulag’s shadow: A trip to the arctic city of Vorkuta
Vorkuta is famous for its vast coal mines that were once home to one of the harshest labor camps in Stalinist Russia. Today, this isolated city in the extreme north of European Russia is...
A snapshot of life in Vorkuta, a coal mining center in the Arctic ...
2016年7月2日 · Vorkuta is a unique city in the northeast of the Komi Republic, the most important center of the Russian coal industry. It is the third largest settlement in the Arctic Circle...
Above The Arctic Circle, A Soviet-Era Metropolis Battles A 'Drawn …
2021年4月10日 · VORKUTA, Russia -- In May 1931, a group of 39 prisoners toiling in the Soviet Union's expanding network of forced labor camps set off north from the town of Ukhta to explore...