People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

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Photos 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.

People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

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.

People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

Vorkuta, Russia, 2009

People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

Vorkuta, a bus on Lenin Avenue

Prospekt Lenina, Vorkuta

People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

Dancing in the Palace of Culture

People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

Palace Of Culture

People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

Alexander

Ring road

People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

The last stop of the train before Vorkuta

People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

Homemade snowblower

People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

Abandoned sports centre, Khalmer-Yu

People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

The last inhabited house in the mining town of Yur-Shor

People live here: Vorkuta — on the edge of the world

Irina, a resident of the last inhabited house in Yur shore

Keywords: Town | Ghost town | Arctic photo

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