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Vorkuta is a coal-mining town in the Komi Republic of Russia, situated just north of the Arctic Circle in the Pechora coal basin, at the river Vorkuta. Population: 56,985; 70,548; 84,917; 115,646.
Central Vorkuta
Mining College in Vorkuta
Halmer Yu River Waterfall
Vorkuta in 2012
Vorkutlag
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The Vorkuta Corrective Labor Camp, commonly known as Vorkutlag, was a major Gulag labor camp in the Soviet Union located in Vorkuta, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian Soviet Federativ
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…described the villages surrounding Vorkuta as "ghost towns", with many "abandoned structures". The origins of the town of Vorkuta are associated with Vorkutlag, one of the most notorious forced-labour camps of the Gulag. Vorkutlag was established in 1932 with the start of mining. It was the largest of the Gulag…
Perimeter fence and watchtower, Vorkuta Gulag.
The Vorkuta industrial labor camp complex was located 160 km above the Arctic Circle. The city had a population of approximately 15,000 and about 50 camps with more than 50,000 inmates.
Meeting of the first train in Vorkuta. Yakov Fomin, December 28, 1941.
Mikhail Maltsev and Yakov Fomin