People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/people-live-here-vorkuta-on-the-edge-of-the-world.htmlPhotos of Tomeo Call (Tomeu Coll) about life in the 4th largest city in the Arctic circle — Vorkuta, located in 40-hour train ride from Moscow. The town grew around the coal mines and the largest of the Gulag camps — Vorkutlag, which at the peak of its population was detained more than 70 thousand people. Until the 1980-ies continued to serve as a place of exile. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the crisis in the mining industry, the residents began to leave in search of jobs and better places to live for 30 years, the population decreased by almost half.
The footage made by the journalist Tomeu Call in Vorkuta and surrounding towns of Zapolyarny, "capital of the world" appears to be a dying city, almost uninhabitable.
Vorkuta, Russia, 2009
Vorkuta, a bus on Lenin Avenue
Prospekt Lenina, Vorkuta
Dancing in the Palace of Culture
Palace Of Culture
Alexander
Ring road
The last stop of the train before Vorkuta
Homemade snowblower
Abandoned sports centre, Khalmer-Yu
The last inhabited house in the mining town of Yur-Shor
Irina, a resident of the last inhabited house in Yur shore
Keywords: Town | Ghost town | Arctic photo
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