Norilsk CLOSED most polluted ARCTIC CITY Where NO ROADS lead

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Moscow Map: • https://geoperspective.org/product/mo... • Norilsk is a closed city in Russia's arctic. It is the northernmost city in the world. Learn how this city survives. • SUPPORT THE CHANNEL • My videos take up to and over 30 hours to produce each and require editing tools and stock footage. Please help me cover the costs with any of the options below: • PATREON MAP • / geoperspective • OR • I proudly support the future of money and accept donations :) • BTC • 1KQpMBgmbw4ymeYkgvNYDFqPko9rCU22GE • ETH • 0x17832E0930c8726E8e396bfaD00d15fb6F0319BA • BCH • qzc780fdmgacjr8nzzt4wyekrrh4yf8gt5apesm33q • TETHER • 0x17832E0930c8726E8e396bfaD00d15fb6F0319BA • Paypal • [email protected] • Get in touch: • / geo-perspect • / geoperspective • Sources: • Wikepedia • https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... • Script: • Deep in Russia’s permafrost zone lies the Arctic city - Norilsk. It sits on a latitude of 69 degrees • And is roughly 400km away from Russias Geographical center lake Vivi • Moscow on the other hand is 2878km southwest which is about a third of the entire width of the country. • With a population of 175 thousand, it is the northernmost city in the world and the second-largest in the arctic circle behind Murmansk. The only other major settlement in the permafrost zone is Yakutsk also known as Russia's coldest city. • Norilsk is situated on the foot of the 1,700-meter-high Putoran Mountain which is currently considered the site of the largest nickel deposits in the world. • Consequently, mining and smelting ore are the major industries supporting the population. • In fact, the majority of people are employed by Nornickel. The company more or less controls the entire city and is one of the biggest nickel producers in the world. • So it would be fair to assume that a city like Norilsk which is a major population hub, is massively productive and is located relatively close to the geographical center of the country would be well connected through roads and trains. • The unfortunate reality of living deep in Russia's arctic is that access to its northernmost regions can be very difficult. There are no roads or railway lines linking Norilsk to any other cities in the country. • The city is essentially an island deep inside of Russian arctic. • Linking such a remote sparsely populated location with a road would be prohibitively expensive. Not to mention the difficulty of building over tundra and the overall dangers posed when driving in the Arctic climate including heavy fog and snowstorms not to mention the polar nights that can be longer than 40 days. • The remoteness of Norilsk makes its inhabitants refer to Moscow as the “mainland” as though they themselves are not a part of it. Perhaps this is a little exaggerated as there is an airport in the city with a regular schedule of commercial flights providing the main option for travelers. • The one and only major road leaving Norilsk leads to the town of Dundinka situated on the shore of the Yenisei River. • The Yenisei provides the only other option for leaving and is really the main artery linking Norilsk to the rest of the world making life here economically feasible as it provides the main means of exportation. In Norilsk, nickel is loaded onto train tracks and sent to the port in Dudinka where it is loaded onto ships that transport it up to Kara Sea, heading towards Murmansk where it is further processed. • All in all If you were a tourist inclined to visit Norilsk you might think to yourself that this doesn't sound too hard. Just get on a plane and fly there. • Like a lot of things In Russia it's not that easy. You pretty much need the equivalent of a visa to visit Norilsk; it is closed off even for Russians and even more so to foreigners. • In fact there are some 44 publicly acknowledged closed off cities still remaining in Russia just like Norilsk. Many of which either contributed to Soviet Union's nuclear weapons programs, are radioactive, store radioactive materials or have military bases.

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