In the 1990s, the Norilsk Golgotha memorial was erected at the foot of Mount Schmidtich, where the remains of said prisoners were discovered. Its 56-meter-long “Last Gate” resembles the gates ...

To get to Norilsk take a regular direct flight from ... The culminating sculpture is the monumental “Final Gate,” designed by Alexander Sobolev with the support of Mikhail Prokhorov.

The most northerly city in the world, the remote Russian mining town of Norilsk is dark for two months of the year and has a truly chilling past. Home to over 170,000 people, the small city in the ...

It was 2 a.m. and the sun was shining, as it does day and night in mid-July in Norilsk, a Siberian city 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Igor Klyushin went to the bank of the river where he ...

NORILSK, Russia -- Photographer Aleksandr Kharitonov grew up in the remote Russian mining city of Norilsk, located above the Arctic Circle. His images of its landscapes, remnants of its Soviet ...

The Alykel airport, the air gates to Nolilsk and the Taimyr Peninsula ... but 25,000 passengers are not little." Norilsk would be the second city in the region after Krasnoyarsk, which has ...

Photographer Elena Chernyshova recently set out to explore those questions in Norilsk, Russia, a city of more than 170,000 people located above the polar circle. The city-factory of Norilsk has ...

The Norilsk Airport (Alykel) is located 35 km from Norilsk. It was put into operation in 1950. Alykel is the air gate to the Norilsk Industrial District and the Taymyr. The airport's runway and ...

Zavinyagin (head of Norilsk from 1938 to 1941) was not originally a security officer. He was a metallurgist. When he was sent to Norilsk, they told him, "There was an idea to shoot you, but then ...