Moscow -- An emaciated polar bear has been sighted in a Russian industrial city in Siberia, hundreds of miles south of its normal hunting grounds. Emergency officials in the city of Norilsk in a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Norilsk, Russia: Blessed with a cornucopia of precious metals buried beneath a desert of snow, but so bereft of sunlight that nights in ...

The victims of Stalin’s Terror and the Gulag are respectfully remembered in Norilsk, but the city now has a more promising future. The Arctic city of Norilsk ...

MMC Norilsk Nickel (MNOD) NORNICKEL, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, KRASNOYARSK TERRITORY AND NORILSK CITY SIGNED A PACKAGE OF DOCUMENTS ON THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NORILSK 20 ...

There are many ways of framing Arctic climate change. On the one hand, countries in the south often see themselves as potential victims of the melting Greenland ice sheet and rising sea levels. On the ...

Reuters Almost completely shut off from the outside world, the city of Norilsk in northern Siberia is a surreal place dominated by the world’s largest nickel plant. Pollution from the enterprise and ...

The drive from Norilsk airport to the city takes you past mile after mile of crumbling, Soviet-era factories. It looks like an endless, rusting scrapyard - a jumble of pipes, industrial junk and frost ...

A grim city dubbed “the most depressing on Earth” is so remote it can’t be reached by road and so polluted life expectancy is ten years lower than the national average. The most northerly city in the ...

MOSCOW — Norilsk, the city of nickel, situated above the Arctic Circle in Russia’s freezing, inhospitable north, has been declared off limits to foreigners. Set in a barren landscape of dead trees, ...

In our latest Through the Lens, Russian photographer Elena Chernyshova explores what it’s like to live in a city 400km north of the Arctic Circle. “After two months, I started to… panic that the sun ...

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