Vorkuta: Fastest Dying City in Russia. From Coal Mine to Ghost Town | Built by Stalin’s Gulag

Dino Iki wes terkahir kesempatanmu tin Karo russia.musuh musuh koe Karo aku dewe.sak matiku.ta layani

In Detroit USA they never bothered with industrial accidents....Guns did a job faster....Come on.

Like so many American deserted towns

Well on the upside... if they ever decide to film metro 2033 id film it here.

Thank you for posting. Surprised they let you.

The kiosk moment was the best, lol

i may be different, i love places like this, so warm and deep. i get depressions when the sun in shining for weeks and the temperatures are hot. truly, darkness is my friend, lost, alone somewhere in infinity

Bro you be talking mad shitt about other peoples country before anything checkup your own and every aspect

Damn russia is a weak dump, why do they try to steal Ukraine when they cant take care of there own country?

My great grandfather was exiled to Vorkuta for 4 years during the WW2. He survived, later came back, but died of exhausting age 45. My grandma only told me a few stories, but that was one of the worst gulags to be part of during soviet times, coal mines, and everything they show in the movies just 10x. Other grandpa was in Krasnoyarsk for 7 years and came back with his whole family, as bad as that was, it wasn't even comparable to Vorkuta, more like a working camp, where's the latter a straight up living hell. People say that German prison camps were hell, at least that's the most accepted Western view, well they clearly have no idea of places like Vorkuta sadly, that's a whole different level of survival when you chopping coal by hand at -50C.
My grandpa said that at Krasnoyarsk, -40 was better than -30 with wind, and as children they used to dig tunnels through 1.5 / 2m of snow, and that's a work camp where they had the food on the table most of the time, he was born in 1940 and is still alive and working everyday today, I guess those type of people just can't be stopped, once he does he'll die.
So just try to imagine Vorkuta as a gulag with -50 / -60 in the Northern Siberia.

I first subscribed to your channel but am today ending it. Because all your commentary does not reach my intellectual basics. Criticism is good but needs to be constructive and analytical. All what you see in this town needs to be judged according to the sociology behind it.
According to you whatever the government and officials in any time period did was and is wrong.
For example I saw this "fencing" at crossings in US small towns in Utah,Colorado,Arizona. There is logic behind that. Especially in low traffic villages and their streets people tend to loose their focusing on the traffic and cross roads .
There must have been accidents so that town officials have decided to do these barriers.
Don't try to please your also watching western audience with pathetic comments and endless wild estimates of the past which mostly are wild speculations.
Wish you wisdom for the future.

I flew into Vorkuta and also travelled to town from Moscow by train, yes the old part of town is abandoned but the central part that supports the population is not; approx.: 40,000 down from a peak population of 200K+ in the late 80's, mainly due to the decline for coal as an energy source and the difficulties of extracting coal more than 1000 meters deep from 13 coal mines around the town. It is a harsh climate located 100 km inside the arctic circle, perpetual dark in the winter months and endless day light in late Spring. You could have interviewed survivors of the camp or the local reindeer herders that still live in the town during summer and live out on the Tundra during the winter months. I found the population to be warm and friendly. When the mines finally close so will the town I expect. There was a village 60 km further north Khalmer-Yu also now abandoned - it completely understandable if a town is no longer commercially viable that it will eventually reduce in population and spending on infrastructure. This happens in other countries too.

The future of China. ...

Now go to Norilsk.

from what i've heard, the buildings built in russia by German POWs were usually more sturdy than others built by natives, and the residence of those buildings took pride in their German built homes.

This is true of many “one industry” towns…while that industry booms, it attracts people and eventually develops a town and all the amenities people like. But often when that one industry isn’t economically viable any more, it all goes in reverse -people leave,, buildings abandoned, etc.

Please tell your translator that the 1900s is the 20th century not the 19th century. I would love to have learned more about the people living in this town. Why do they stay?

Awesome building,sad to see this city destroyed like this. Russia needs to split the country’s,in order for these beautiful cities to continue .
Love your videos ❤

For me heartbreaking. I feel unfriendly russians. And the old Soviet communist System regime. I stand for righteous. But when it comes like this people suffering, very bad situation, people living on terrible streets full of muds. No water supply, no electricity etc etc. I feel pity for them, my tears falling , and i can't Look upon them like that. But i include them on ny prayers. God bless you all and God will strengthen, help and mercy. God bless all. 🙏 🌈💕

Distopian romance...... all our futures.

...and Washington DC is the most 'depressing' city in the USA!🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Being an pretty old call of duty fan since cod black ops 1.I can see now from where most if not all architecture came from.Amazing video.Most of these buildings are the exact same in warzone.

Even Norway is equally depressing.

That beat at the end, what is it called?

VOOORRKUUUTAAA!!

- Resnov

Fix it

Very well done, to bad it is a shit hole

Great architecture, and as a far north resident, I totally understand why you apply bright colors to as much as you can.

Plus, in the battle between permafrost and pavement, permafrost always eventually wins.

You really need to tour Bradford in the uk 😂

Mind slaves. Allowing Putin to walk all over you.

Russia is full of places like this. Nothing unusual here.

Doesn’t look any worse than Detroit.

Now look at Detroit......

Type of city you come to die too

When you point out the old, authentic traffic light, I noticed there was a newer security camera on the building in the background.

Imagine having to register where u live, communism And control

Reznov escaped from here

Russia and Canada are the only two fully “Fully developed” countries that still mine asbestos*

thanks for the info and translation. benjamin rich (aka bald and bankrupt) whould love this place. i've been in in russia and when things are back to normal i will go back again. hope i will live long enough................

I wonder who maintains the traffic lights, bus stops etc

This town is getting like a ghost town.
Too many fights on the coal mine floor.

Instead to make war it would be better to restore it in a beautiful city.

Every place in Russia is depressing if you are not belonging to Putler' s looting gang.

And Transformation into Sustainable Organic Farming City

With Coal history Museum and Army museums and Heritage City


Aum mane Padme hum I.

Solar will be secondary and will adopt to electric efficient systems

Aum mane Padme hum I.

Ok we are transforming into Biomass energy and energy from land waste fills

Yeah

Aum mane Padme hum I.

Russia's problem is S nice the end of WW1, it never developed. 😡
Next problem, mega corruption...

Apparently we don't have enough land to build proper housing in massive Ontario because elitist white people love green space but also unrestrained immigration and investment in our real estate. In other words, Canada is a huge mess. Let us Canadians go live there otherwise most will be living in shelters 50 years from now.

How is the night life & the party scene in this town?