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 ...

Ore from Norilsk pits goes through several processing steps before turning into shiny plates of saleable copper. First, ore is granulated, dried and prepared for the Vanyukov furnaces, some of the ...

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 ...

Ore from Norilsk pits goes through several processing steps before turning into shiny plates of saleable copper. First, ore is granulated, dried and prepared for the Vanyukov furnaces, some of the ...

Emergency officials in the city of Norilsk in a statement on Tuesday warned local residents about a bear that has been spotted in one city district. Anatoly Nikolaichuk, chief of the local hunting ...

So if you do manage to get here, you'll be joining a very exclusive club. The Norilsk Development Agency says that the city is visited by about 200 foreigners a year, not counting people from the CIS.

Norilsk already operates Tati Nickel in Botswana, which includes the Phoenix open pit and Selkirk underground nickel mine, with 2012 production seen 10% up from last year's 11 000 tonnes output.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Norilsk Nickel has started talks with Rusal over a deal to forge a $60bn industrial metals champion better ...

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 ...