Vorkuta

Vorkuta sits on the Vorkuta River in Russia’s Komi Republic, where the Pechora coal basin meets the tundra north of the Arctic Circle. Built around coal extraction, the city developed rapidly during the Soviet era and remains one of European Russia’s northernmost urban centres. Its past is inseparable from Vorkutlag, the vast Gulag camp system that operated here; in 1953, prisoners staged the Vorkuta uprising, one of the largest protests in the Gulag’s history. Long winters, broad open terrain and a mining-built cityscape give Vorkuta a distinctly Arctic-industrial character. Move on to other webcams in the Komi Republic to compare northern landscapes and settlements around Vorkuta.

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