Vorkuta (Russian: Воркута́; Komi: Вӧркута, romanized: Vörkuta; Nenets for "the abundance of bears", "bear corner") [8] is a coal-mining town in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic Circle in the Pechora coal basin at the river Vorkuta. In 2010, its population was 70,548, down from 84,917 in 2002.

The Vorkuta Corrective Labor Camp (Russian: Воркутинский исправительно-трудовой лагерь, romanized: Vorkutinsky ispravitel'no-trudovoy lager'), commonly known as Vorkutlag (Воркутлаг), was a major Gulag labor camp in the Soviet Union located in Vorkuta, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ...

Mar 5, 2021 · Changing landscape: Vorkuta was a Gulag labor camp from the 1930s to 1960s.In the later years of the Soviet Union, people moved from across the USSR to the area for job opportunities. "To attract ...

Vorkuta (Russian: Воркута́; Komi: Вӧркута, Vörkuta; Nenets for "the abundance of bears", "bear corner") [8] is a coal-mining town in northern Komi Republic, Russia. It is located right above the Arctic Circle and built near the river Vorkuta. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the town lost population as the mines were abandoned.

Vorkuta, city, Komi republic, northwestern Russia, on the Vorkuta River. Coal mining began in the area in 1932, but the industry and city did not grow significantly until World War II. Initially the coal exploitation used penal labour. The area subsequently became the site of some of Stalin’s

The Vorkuta Uprising was a major uprising of forced labor camp inmates at the Rechlag Gulag special labor camp in Vorkuta, Russian SFSR, USSR from 19 July (or 22 July) to 1 August 1953, shortly after the arrest of Lavrentiy Beria on 26 June 1953. The uprising was violently stopped by the camp administration after two weeks of bloodless standoff.

Aug 10, 2022 · Also known as Vorkutlag, the prison camp at the Vorkuta gulag was situated 100 miles above the Arctic Circle and housed 2 million prisoners between 1932 and 1962. At the gulags, prisoners were greeted by gates with slogans like, "Work in the USSR Is a Matter of Honor and Glory" or "With an Iron Fist, We Will Lead Humanity to Happiness."

Sep 22, 2020 · The city of Vorkuta was the hub between them all. By the 1960s people from all over Russia moved to Vorkuta for the promise of employment and higher salaries offered by the mining industry and surrounding economy. So much so, in the 1980s Vorkuta could boast of being one of the richest northern cities in the USSR.

Jul 2, 2016 · Vorkuta is a unique city in the northeast of the Komi Republic, the most important center of the Russian coal industry. It is the third largest settlement in the Arctic Circle anywhere in the world.

Vorkuta became an administrative center for other labor camps in the Komi Republic and the settlement grew into one of the world’s only Arctic cities. Known as Vorkutlag during the Soviet era ...