Norilsk: Otherworldly Photos of an Arctic City
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#2Shame that this is yet another website that requires Javascript to simply to display some static images.
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#3Wow. I find these places amazing. I don't understand how they can "work".
Like in... why do people stay?! Russia's a huge country and with free movement you'd imagine such places would get depopulated quickly...
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#4Wow. I find these places amazing. I don't understand how they can "work". Like in... why do people stay?! Russia's a huge country and with free movement you'd imagine such places would get depopulated quickly...
Very good compensation, you can retire earlier, etc.
Talking about living in other places - you can leave in Siberia believe Arctic circle and still have -40C for a long time, etc.
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#5I find this city fascinating for some reason. It's something about the fact that it's so harsh, but humans are still able to live there. Here's a YouTube video of it that makes it look almost artistic:
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#6Wow. I find these places amazing. I don't understand how they can "work". Like in... why do people stay?! Russia's a huge country and with free movement you'd imagine such places would get depopulated quickly...
"free movement" - false.
Why did people stay in Detroit when it was down? Moving is not as easy as it seems. Only very few have courage to leave their nest. But that's a whole different story.
In Russia, besides the fact that movement is not "free" because of propiska ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propiska_in_the_Soviet_Union ), general conservative propaganda highly encourages pin-pointed "nationalism". You leave your city - you are a traitor, how could you leave your friends and family.
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#7Wow. I find these places amazing. I don't understand how they can "work". Like in... why do people stay?! Russia's a huge country and with free movement you'd imagine such places would get depopulated quickly...
Very good compensation, you can retire earlier, etc. Talking about living in other places - you can leave in Siberia believe Arctic circle and still have -40C for a long time, etc.
"Very good compensation" - haha, unfortunately not true.
Well... they get "milk coupons" though (to literally get a couple liters of free milk per month), as a "sorry" for the exposure to the dangerous environments and toxins at work. It's more a legacy inherited from USSR where it was largely believed that milk reduces the danger of hard work envs, removes toxins:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA...
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#8Wow. I find these places amazing. I don't understand how they can "work". Like in... why do people stay?! Russia's a huge country and with free movement you'd imagine such places would get depopulated quickly...
1) Basic economics. Most people around the world do not have the means to uproot their lives and move. It's a big
2) Momentum and roots. Norilsk was founded in 1935, which means at this point you have multiple generations of families for whom it's their home.
3) Work and money. Norilsk exists because of mining. It continues to employ mostly people in mining, and pays them reasonably well for the harsh environment.
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#9Wow. I find these places amazing. I don't understand how they can "work". Like in... why do people stay?! Russia's a huge country and with free movement you'd imagine such places would get depopulated quickly...
Very good compensation, you can retire earlier, etc. Talking about living in other places - you can leave in Siberia believe Arctic circle and still have -40C for a long time, etc.
Typos?
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#10Its amazing what unfettered socialism can lead to.