Vorkuta is a brutal place. This Russian city of 70,000 just north of the Arctic Circle is almost completely dependent on coal mining. It was founded in 1932 as one of the most notorious camps of the ...

Vorkuta, a city in the Komi Republic in Russia, used to be one of the centers of the infamous Soviet Gulag camp system. The Gulag might have vanished, but people still remain in the area, both ...

VORKUTA, Russia -- Anna Krikun can barely read the yellowing papers that show she was sentenced as a young woman to hard labor in one of Stalin’s cruelest Gulag camps. At 90, her eyesight is fading.

The Komi Republic has signed a concession agreement for the construction of a MSW treatment facility. The volume of investments in the project will amount to 726 million rubles. This is stated in the ...

Two Americans stepped through the Iron Curtain last week, free men. Private William Marchuk, 38, of Norristown, Pa., who disappeared from his Army unit in Berlin in 1949, asked for a cigarette and ...

The project became realistic when Roman Trotsenko, the AEON Corporation's founder, announced he would invest in the construction of a 200-km-long railway from Vorkuta to Ust-Kara and in the ...

The history of Vorkuta does not only involve the triumph of the human spirit over a harsh northern climate: it is also a testament to how unstable life is in settlements whose main business is to ...

The site of a coal mining centre in the Arctic Circle, Vorkuta does not only symbolise the triumph of the human spirit over a harsh northern climate. The history of Vorkuta is also a testament to how ...

At the Eastern Economic Forum, a cooperation agreement was signed within the framework of exploring the possibility of implementing a large investment project "Vorkuta Chemical Complex", which will be ...

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