Vorkuta
Vorkuta (????????), population about 116,000, is a coal mining community in the Komi Republic of Russia just north of the Arctic circle in the Pechora coal basin, at {{coor dm|67|30|N|64|00|E|}}. It had its origin in one of the more notorious concentration camps of the Gulag which was established in 1932.
External links
- Contemporary photographs of the city on the webpage of the local mine rescue association
- Links to photos of Vorkuta and Usinsk, 1998
- Satellite images of the Vorkuta region
Adapted from the article Vorkuta, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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