In summer 2022 I went to one of my most desirable travel destinations - Norilsk. Norilsk is a closed city in Russian arctic which is famous for being one of the most polluted cities in the world.

Norilsk is one of the most remote towns on the planet, located deep in the northernmost parts of Siberia, within the Arctic Circle. Accessible only by air, there are no roads to connect it to wider Russia, making it highly closed-off from the outside world.

The town was built during the 1930s, as the site of a Gulag labour camp. Most of the housing blocks and main buildings were built by prisoners, who were forced to work all hours of the day in gruelling sub-zero temperatures. According to archives, it is estimated that 16,806 prisoners died under these cruel conditions, between the years of 1935-1956.

The Norilsk Nickel corporation is in many ways a de facto governing body over the local population, employing a large percentage of residents and exercising tight control over the rights and rules of Norilsk town.

Riding a freight train from Norilsk to Dudinka:
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( Edited text from https://www.skratch.world/post/norils... )

Content:

00:00 - Introduction into Norilsk
01:36 - Landing in Alykel Airport (NSK)
02:20 - Introduction into the history of Norilsk Railway
03:32 - Disappeared town of Alykel
05:20 - Narrow-gauge steam locomotive
06:20 - Kayerkan district
12:49 - Grocery prices (July 2022)
13:47 - Former Nadezhda Airport
14:34 - Norilsk in the evening
16:17 - Oganer district
18:19 - Talnakh district
19:57 - Trainhopping to Dudinka
20:10 - Dudinka
23:53 - Abandoned trains in Kayerkan
27:21 - Hopping on a random train
31:12 - Disappeared railway station
32:45 - Across Putorana Plateu by swamp-buggy
35:53 - Norilsk industrial zones (1)
39:21 - Former coal railway and epic ore passageway
42:58 - Golgofa: the memorial to the victims of political repressions
44:17 - Tundra station, hitchhiking a freight train
47:26 - Norilsk, the city center
49:17 - Norilsk Museum
50:27 - Soviet mosaic in Norilsk
50:45 - Norilsk industrial zones (2)
51:34 - Sneaking into a diesel locomotive
52:34 - Collecting berries in tundra
53:03 - Derailed trains near Norilsk
55:38 - A lot of mosquitos

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