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Life in the freezer: Inside the northernmost city on Earth whose residents endure - 55°C temperatures and two months of total darkness every year
In Norilsk, Siberia, which is situated 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle, the average annual temperature is -10C
The cold period extends for about 280 days per year, with more than 130 days featuring snowstorms
The extreme weather conditions result in anxiety, nervousness, drowsiness and depression for many residents When you feel a grumble coming on about the biting winds and icy chills this January, remember it could be worse - you could be living in the city of Norilsk, Siberia, where the average annual temperature is -10 degrees Celsius, reaching lows of -55 degrees Celsius in winter.
The mining city, which is situated 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle, first started attracting large numbers of inhabitants in the early 1900s, who arrived in the area to mine its rich mineral deposits.
The booming mining industry means the city now has a population of more than 170,000, even though the cold period extends for about 280 days per year, with more than 130 days featuring snowstorms and two months when there is only polar night, where darkness last for 24 hours.Norilsk, Siberia is situated 250 miles north of the Arctic circle, the average annual temperature is -10C
The polar days and nights cycle has a strong influence on the physical and psychological conditions of the human body, resulting in anxiety, nervousness, drowsiness and depression for many.
As a result of the weather, people spend much of their time in enclosed spaces at their work, individual apartments or local sport, cultural, shopping centres.Their lives have been documented in a series of photographs by the Russian photographer Elena Chernyshova, who spent several weeks in the city for her project: Days Of Night- Nights Of Day.
The real rise of Norilsk started at the beginning of the 20th century, when the expedition of the geologist Urvantsev discovered the rich deposits of nickel, copper and cobalt at the foot of the Putorana Mountains.
Thành phố lạnh nhất trái đất - Earth's coldest city
Thành phố lạnh nhất trái đất, đó là thành phố Norilsk nước Nga, Người dân nơi đây phải chịu thời tiết lúc giá lạnh nhất tới - 55 độ C với hai tháng mỗi năm luôn chìm trong bóng tối. Vì điều kiện thời tiết đặc biệt khắc nghiệt, người dân dành hầu hết thời gian của họ trong các không gian kín như công sở, căn hộ cá nhân hoặc những trung tâm văn hóa, mua sắm và thể thao địa phương.
Earth's coldest city, which is the city of Norilsk in Russia, where people suffer while the coldest weather to - 55 degrees C for two months each year is always dark. Because weather conditions particularly harsh, people spend most of their time in enclosed spaces such as offices, apartments or private cultural centers, shopping and local sports.
CITY 40 Interview | Life in a Closed, Radioactive City
We talk to Samira Goetschel, the producer and director of the fascinating and terrifying doc 'City 40', about her experience filming, undercover, in a nuclear city that has remained off-limits to the public.
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‘City 40’ Review - A Terrifying Portrait of Modern Totalitarianism
We often like to think that we possess an objective view of our lives, one that is able to easily recognize moments of delusion, injustice and propaganda. However, one of the key lessons of the fascinating documentary ‘City 40’ is that we have yet to outgrow our desire for the easy answer, our desire for the easy turning of a blind eye, and our desire for a sense of shared purpose.
In ‘City 40’, filmmaker Samira Goetschel explores one of Russia’s ‘closed’ cities - these are cities where restriction and travel are severely limited: since the cities guard key military and/or nuclear secrets and projects, residents cannot leave, visitors are heavily monitored, and the cities are often not marked on any map. At one point, ‘City 40’ points out that residents don’t even ‘exist’ outside of the city - there is no record of them beyond the city’s walls.
Goetschel admirably takes a hands-off approach to filming, as it is in allowing the residents to tell their stories that the documentary slowly brings you not only into the physical space of City 40, but into its culture and people. In building this empathy, the documentary is able to shock you with its subjects before normalizing their perspectives: you are surprised, at first, to find out that there is a significant portion of the population that wants to live there. They are a group of people that see their life, one of relative ease (everyone in the city has access to goods and services that produce a comfortable standard of living), as a fair payoff for living in a city that is so beset by radioactive material that its lakes, rivers, food and (ultimately) residents suffer from debilitating levels of radioactive poisoning. Even at the moment of this realization, the documentary refuses to cast judgement - these are lives that can be expressed only through the voices and perspectives of the people living them.
On the other side of this divide is the single mother that tirelessly fights for an opening of the city and a public recognition of its restrictions and health risks. ‘City 40’ uses this story to make you understand the daily impact that these larger institutional choices have on people who share our desires for safety, longevity and the freedom of self expression. Overall, Goetschel’s film balances the vast, imposing history of closed cities with the tangible human lives still impacted by their existence. It is in this balance that the documentary is able to make you understand both what drives some residents to resist the institutions that imprison them and how a population could succumb (both physically and intellectually) to the literally poisonous promise of a better life. ‘City 40’ remains a politically relevant and emotionally urgent film, making it a true highlight of this year’s Hot Docs festival.
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Yakutos- Yakuts (English subtitles)
Documental acerca de los Yakutos, en Siberia. Música Josh Woodward, CC Attribution 3.0
Documentary about the Yakuts, in Siberia. Music Josh Woodward, CC Attribution 3.0
Yakutsk, Yakutia, Siberia.
Don't Do This In Russia!
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Dzerzhinsk, the dirtiest Russian city - From Moscow to Murmansk
Dzerzhinsk is one of the 10 most dirty cities in the world. Jelle speaks with the inhabitants that claim they can guess at which tram stop they are just by smelling it.
Original title: The heritage
In the first series: From Moscow to Magadan, Jelle Brandt Corstius traveled from West to East, focusing on the endless Russian countryside and the villages. In this second series: From Moscow to Murmansk, he travels from North to South along the largest river of Russia: the Volga River. A trip along the relatively unknown cities like Murmansk, Volgograd, Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, but also to Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Through topics like women in Russia, new censorship, the environmental problem from Russian perspective and the ideological vacuum, a relatively unknown side of Russia is once again exposed.
Presented by: Jelle Brandt Corstius
Final editor: Gert-Jan Hox
Directed by: Hans Pool
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Cherepovets, Second most polluted city on Earth
Cherepovets is an important industrial center in northwestern Russia mostly known for country's largest steel manufacturing plant, with exports going to more than 50 countries around the world.
As an outcome of the high volume of metallurgical and chemical production, Cherepovets is one of the most heavily polluted cities in the world. According to 2011 assessment, the city ranked second only to Norilsk, Russia. Wikipedia.
Tap water is poisonous. But it is not written anywhere, therefore I have drunk two glasses of tap water after a flight. Afterwards, I talked with a receptionist and she was shocked by my action. I felt also slightly lost, then I have asked what shall I do now? The lady behind the desk told me to drink a few glasses of Vodka.
Anyway, the trip was organized pretty well and with some Russian cultural insights.
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New wealth in Siberia - From Moscow to Magadan
The Siberian city of Khanty Mansiysk has become extremely rich thanks to oil. In some parts of Russia, villages are emptying because residents seek better prospects, like the ones happening in Khanty Mansiysk. Jelle visits such a village.
Original title: Siberische belofte
What's left of communism? How big are the differences between the poor and the rich? What is the influence of corruption? Is Russia a young democracy (as former Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende previously said)?Is it a sovereign democracy (according to Putin) or a fascist regime (as read in The Economist)? Jelle Brandt Corstius is looking for the topics that rule the life of ordinary Russians in Russia.
Presented by: Jelle Brandt Corstius
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Norilsk Substance 2019
BAZIS Contemporary, CENTRUL DE INTERES, Cluj-Napoca, Rumania
20 June - 12 August, 2019
MONUMENT OF DISTRUCTION
Introduction
The work of the Moscow based artist is introducing us the symbol of distruction, the forbidden zone, Norilsk, commemorating the people who died here, the bodies and buildings in corrosion, the poisoned environment. More precisely he is not commemorating them, but rather is showing us a place, that is in the center of our contamporary human civilization, although it was established on the periphery, on the borders beyond impossible. This city is the symptom of the idea of capitalism, that is exploiting as complete as possible the resources, not bearing responsability neither for the environment, or in a bigger perspective for the survival of the Earth, nor for the direct lives of the people.
Dmitry Kawarga is a well known figure of the Russian contemporary art, at the same time he is one of the most important representative of ecologically committed art. In this work he draws attention to the disaster that can be expected by the humankind, and that commonly is called as climate change. Kawarga steps out of the generality of abstract discourse when he is indicating a concrete cause and its consequences. However his pointing is made by so powerful artistic gestures, that inavitably a more general sensation of threat is unfolding for the viewer. Many works of Kawarga are speaking about the environmental pollution as a poison emitted by the technological civilization itself. The objects produced by 3D print of the Toxicity-series are all utopian monuments of an ecoapocalypse. Monuments, that are on the one hand archives of the accumulation, and as such they are carrying - crumpled and amassed as garbage - the tangible and human relics of a dying culture; on the other hand they are drawing up the vision of a future civilization, that goes beyond human. Peter Sloterdijk, a German philosopher is calling 'Anthropocene era' the era that started with the industrial revolution, that first exceeds, then destroys the human values. The works of Kawarga are the most unsettling artistic reflections of the Anthropocene: in his nonform compositions we can observe a continuous transition between organic forms (mostly human heads and distorted body parts), futuristic geometrical forms that express the technological transition, as well as inhuman forms without humans, more precisely biomorf diformity. With his vision of posthuman turn the Russian artist does not predict the end of the world, but another threatening world, in which humans can appear only as ghosts.
The Norilsk Substance kinetic installation can be conceived as science art as well as biogenic art or just as a sculpture - by the multiple use of materials and techniques it is on the verge of genres. But more important than classification is its narrative written by performative spectacle: the dark gray, moving substance does not form a single stone block, its surface is fragmented by cuts and hollows. Inside it evoces not just a simple cave but rather am excavated, devastated, eroded, hollowed structure of the Earth, we see splitted spurs, on top of them forms that remind us of human figures - traces of memories of people who sacrificed their lives, engravings of suffering, pain, destruction. The plastic sheet above the moving stone block can be interpreted as a protecting shield of the ozone layer, but this sheet is also broken: the liquids ejected from the inside of the stone block, which indicate to poisons because of their vivid colours, are penetrating the sheet, are melting down, scrolling off, and are slowly covering everything.
The work of Kawarga represents the end of the human civilization. More precisely - using the term of Timothy Morton - it represents the dark ecology, in which life is already distructing itself, and in which human is just debris. Although life is present in this dark ecology, it has nothing to do with human values, culture, with forms of thinking, with any organic forms that could be identified with the biological existence and the human ecosphere. The landscape object of distruction, the essence of Norilsk is not only witnessing the horrid homelessness, but the complete absence of the notion of home, human feelings, desires and any forms of knowledge.
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Kemerovo (Russian: Кемерово, IPA: [ˈkʲemʲɪrəvə]) is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitim and Tom Rivers, in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin. Population:
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The industrialization of Kemerovo was driven and underpinned by coal mining and by the heavy industry based on the availability of coal. It remains an important industrial city, built up during the Soviet period, with important steel, aluminum and machinery based manufacturing plants along with chemical, fertilizer, and other manufacturing industries. Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the city's industries have experienced a severe decline, creating high levels of unemployment. Major companies based in the city include Siberian Business Union.
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Kemerovo is linked to western Russia by a branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway and has the Kemerovo Railway station.
The city is served by the Kemerovo International Airport.
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532,981(2010 Census);[8] 484,754 (2002 Census);[13] 520,263
shopping mall Kemerovo shopping mall ,
(1989 Census).[14] Siberian city
cinema Kemerovo cinema
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Диксон самый северный поселок России / Dikson- Russia'a most northerrn village
Диксон
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Анна Груздева и Антон Петров
Dikson
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Yakutsk
Якутск
City under republic jurisdiction[1]
Other transcription(s) • YakutДьокуускай
Central Yakutsk from the air

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Coordinates: 62°02′N 129°44′ECountryRussiaFederal subjectSakha Republic[2]Founded1632City status since1643Government
• BodyOkrug Council • HeadSardana AvksentyevaArea
• Total122 km2 (47 sq mi)Elevation
95 m (312 ft)Population
• Estimate
(2018)[3]
311,760 • Rank68th in 2010
Administrative status
• Subordinated tocity of republic significance of Yakutsk[1] • Capital ofSakha Republic[2] • Capital ofcity of republic significance of Yakutsk[1]
Municipal status
• Urban okrugYakutsk Urban Okrug[4] • Capital ofYakutsk Urban Okrug[4]Time zoneUTC+9 (MSK+6 [5])Postal code(s)[6]
677xxx
Dialing code(s)+7 4112[7]OKTMO ID98701000001City DaySecond Sunday of SeptemberTwin townsFairbanks, Changwon, Harbin, Murayama, Yellowknife, VaughanWebsiteякутск.рф
Yakutsk, with an average temperature of −8.8 °C (16.2 °F), is the second coldest large city in the world after Norilsk, although Yakutsk experiences colder temperatures in the winter.[8] Yakutsk is also the largest city located in continuous permafrost and one of the largest that cannot be reached by road. Yakutsk is located in the Central Yakutian Lowland and is a major port on the Lena River. It is served by the Yakutsk Airport as well as the smaller Magan Airport.
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The Yakuts, also known as the Sakha people, migrated to the area during the 13th and 14th centuries from other parts of Siberia. When they arrived they mixed with other indigenous Siberians in the area.[9] The Russian settlement of Yakutsk was founded in 1632 as an ostrog (fortress) by Pyotr Beketov. In 1639, it became the center of a voyevodstvo. The Voyevoda of Yakutsk soon became the most important Russian official in the region and directed expansion to the east and south.
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There are several theaters in Yakutsk: the State Russian Drama Theater, named after A. S. Pushkin; the Sakha Theater, named after P. A. Oiyunsky; the Suorun Omoloon Young Spectator's Theater; and the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, named after D. K. Sivtsev.
There are a number of museums as well: the National Fine Arts Museum of Sakha; the Museum of Local Lore and History, named after E. Yaroslavsky; and the only museums in the world dedicated to the khomus and permafrost.
The annual Ysyakh summer festival takes place the last weekend in June. The traditional Yakut summer solstice festivities include a celebration of the revival and renewal of the nature, fertility and beginning of a new year. It is accompanied by national Yakut rituals and ceremonies, folk dancing, horse racing, Yakut ethnic music and singing, national cuisine, and competitions in traditional Yakut sports.[17]
There is a local punk scene[18] in Yakutsk, with many bands. Shows can bring up to 300 people, young but also older too.
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RUSSIA : ST PETERSBURG POLLUTION PROBLEMS
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The E-U has launched a massive environmental clean-up campaign in St. Petersburg, one of Europe's most polluted cities.
Once known as the Venice of the north, St. Petersburg is now smothered in industrial waste, with most of it ending up in the Baltic Sea.
After pressure from nearby Baltic countries, the authorities in the Russian city teamed up with Germany, Denmark and France to find a solution to its environmental ills.
Awash in industrial waste, Tsar Peter the Great's Venice of the
North emerged from Soviet neglect as the dirty old man of Europe.
Oil spill pollution from Europe's fourth largest city, St Petersburg,
was estimated in 1991 at 1700 tons.
But European Union figures put pollution levels at anywhere between 10.000 and 40.000 tons yearly - as much as forty times the level of Hamburg.
With no reliable monitoring system, as much as 80% of the oil
spills are from unidentified sources. But the destination of the pollution is under no doubt - straight into the Baltic Sea.
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The official figures given by the authorities in St Petersburg vary
between 1200 and 1700 tonnes of oil spilled on the river surfaces of
St Petersburg. However it is estimated that these figures are not
reliable because of the fact that there is no reliable monitoring
system, and they may be estimated far more higher.
SUPER CAPTION:Gino Van Begin, ECAT Project Manager:
After pressure from neighbouring Baltic countries, the authorities in St. Petersburg teamed up with Germany, Denmark and France to find a solution to its environmental ills.
The Environmental Centre for Administration and Technology (ECAT) has imported equipment to deal with the problem. The team of experts from Hamburg, Aaborg and Le Havre are also training Russian staff to continue the project.
The authorities are hoping that after several months the clean-up of the city's polluted waters will ensure that St. Petersburg, once again, lives up to its historic image as the Venice of the north.
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