Vorkuta is the third largest city north of the Arctic Circle and the easternmost town in Europe. It has the coldest recorded temperature of any European city, having recorded a −52 °C (−61 °F) temperature.

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 ...

The Vorkuta Uprising was a major uprising of forced labor camp inmates at the Rechlag Gulag special labor camp in Vorkuta, Russian SFSR, USSR from 19 July (or 22 July) to 1 August 1953, shortly after the arrest of Lavrentiy Beria on 26 June 1953. The uprising was violently stopped by the camp administration after two weeks of bloodless standoff.

Mar 5, 2021 · 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, 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.

Aug 10, 2022 · Also known as Vorkutlag, the prison camp at the Vorkuta gulag was situated 100 miles above the Arctic Circle and housed 2 million prisoners between 1932 and 1962.

Sep 22, 2020 · Just over 90 miles north of the Arctic Circle and 40 hours by train from Moscow, sits the once-bustling coal-mining city of Vorkuta, Russia. Built by gulag inmates during Stalin’s big purge in the 1930s, this desolate region on the very edge of Europe was given purpose by the rich deposits of coal discovered nearby.

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 .

The Russian city of Vorkuta rests just north of the Arctic Circle in the frigid expanses of the Komi Republic. Vorkuta is famous for its vast coal mines that were once home to one of the...

Apr 21, 2014 · Vorkuta was founded in the early 1930s on the site of a large seam of coal, and soon became one of the most notorious “islands” of the “Gulag Archipelago”, with 73,000...