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{{Short description|Town in the Komi Republic, Russia}}
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'''Vorkuta''' ({{langx|ru|Воркута́}}; {{langx|kv|Вӧркута|Vörkuta}}; [[Nenets languages|Nenets]] for "the abundance of bears", "bear corner")<ref>{{cite web|title=About city|url=http://xn--80adypkng.xn--p1ai/english/|access-date=11 February 2016}}</ref> is a [[coal]]-mining [[types of inhabited localities in Russia|town]] in the [[Komi Republic]], [[Russia]], situated just north of the [[Arctic Circle]] in the [[Pechora coal basin]] at the river [[Vorkuta (river)|Vorkuta]]. In 2010, its population was 70,548, down from 84,917 in 2002.
Vorkuta is the [[Northernmost settlements#Cities and towns|third largest city]] north of the Arctic Circle and the easternmost town in [[Europe]]. It has the coldest recorded temperature of any European city, having recorded a −52 °C (−61 °F) temperature.<ref>Numminen, Pekka: [https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/8f213cf6-94f8-403e-89da-41f29aacfebc Vorkuta Pohjois-Venäjällä on Euroopan kylmin kaupunki – ja asukkaat eivät sitä enää kestä] [Vorkuta in northern Russia is the coldest city in Europe – and its inhabitants can't stand it any more], ''[[Iltalehti]]'' 24 December 2021 (in Finnish). Accessed on 25 December 2021.</ref>
Vorkuta's population has dropped steadily since the [[fall of the Soviet Union]], when mines were privatized and many people began moving farther south.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/12/20/above-arctic-circle-once-flourishing-russian-coal-mining-town-is-rapid-decline/ |title=Above the Arctic Circle, a once-flourishing Russian coal-mining town is in rapid decline |date=20 December 2020 |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=10 March 2021 |quote=Many people left their houses and moved from Vorkuta to more southern cities of Russia}}</ref> Many of the mines have been abandoned and by September 2020, the city's estimated population was only about 50,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://darktourists.com/vorkuta-russias-dying-city-above-the-arctic-circle/ |title=Vorkuta - Russia's Dying City Above the Arctic Circle |date=22 September 2020 |work=Dark Tourist |access-date=10 March 2021 |quote=abandoned ghost towns towns that surround the coal-mining center of Vorkuta}}</ref> A report in March 2021 described the villages in the area as "ghost towns" with many "abandoned structures".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/vorkuta-russia-frozen-ghost-towns/index.html |title=Inside Russia's deep frozen ghost towns |date=5 March 2021 |work=CNN |access-date=10 March 2021 |quote=abandoned ghost towns towns that surround the coal-mining center of Vorkuta}}</ref>
==
In 1930, the geologist [[Georgy Chernov]] (1906–2009) discovered substantial [[coal field]]s by the river [[Vorkuta (river)|Vorkuta]]. Georgy Chernov's father, the geologist [[Aleksandr Chernov|Alexander Chernov]] (1877–1963), promoted the development of the [[Pechora coal basin]], which included the Vorkuta fields.<ref name=tour>[http://www.vorkuta-tour.ru/history.php "История Воркуты"]{{in lang|ru}}(retrieved August 3, 2004)</ref><ref>[http://ste-alex81.narod.ru/vorkuta1.html "История Воркуты"]{{in lang|ru}}(retrieved August 3, 2004)</ref> With this discovery the coal-mining industry started in the [[Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic|Komi ASSR]]. (At the time only the southern parts of the field were included in the Komi ASSR. The northern part, including Vorkuta, belonged to the [[Nenets Autonomous Okrug]] of [[Arkhangelsk Oblast]].) In 1931, a geologist settlement was established by the coal field, with most of the workers being inmates of the Ukhta-Pechora Camp of the [[GULAG]] (Ухтпечлаг, [[Ukhtpechlag]]).<ref name=tour/><ref>[http://gis.rkomi.ru/ir/PP-7/current/vorkuta.htm "Историческая справка. МО ГО "Воркута""] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216025914/http://gis.rkomi.ru/ir/PP-7/current/vorkuta.htm |date=February 16, 2016 }}{{in lang|ru}} (retrieved August 3, 2004)</ref>
===Forced labour camp===
{{Main|Vorkutlag}}
The origins of the town of Vorkuta are associated with [[Vorkutlag]], one of the most notorious forced-labour camps of the [[Gulag]]. Vorkutlag was established in 1932 with the start of mining. It was the largest of the Gulag camps in [[European Russia]] and served as the administrative centre for a large number of smaller camps and subcamps, among them [[Kotlas]], [[Pechora]], and Izhma (modern [[Sosnogorsk]]). The [[Vorkuta uprising]], a major rebellion by the camp inmates, occurred in 1953.
In 1941, Vorkuta and the labour camp system based around it were connected to the rest of the world by a prisoner-built rail line linking [[Konosha]], [[Kotlas]], and the camps of [[Inta]]. Town status was granted to Vorkuta on November 26, 1943.<ref name="tour" />
==Administrative and municipal status==
Within the [[subdivisions of Russia#Administrative divisions|framework of administrative divisions]], it is, together with eight [[urban-type settlement]]s ([[Komsomolsky, Komi Republic|Komsomolsky]], [[Mulda, Russia|Mulda]], [[Oktyabrsky, Komi Republic|Oktyabrsky]], [[Promyshlenny, Komi Republic|Promyshlenny]], [[Severny, Komi Republic|Severny]], [[Vorgashor]], [[Yeletsky, Komi Republic|Yeletsky]], and [[Zapolyarny, Komi Republic|Zapolyarny]]) and seven [[types of inhabited localities in Russia|rural localities]], incorporated as the '''[[city of federal subject significance|town of republic significance]] of Vorkuta'''—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the [[administrative divisions of the Komi Republic|districts]].<ref name="Law">Law #16-RZ</ref> As a [[subdivisions of Russia#Municipal divisions|municipal division]], the town of republic significance of Vorkuta is incorporated as '''Vorkuta Urban Okrug'''.<ref name="Law-2">Law #11-RZ</ref>
==Economy==
By the early 21st century, many mines had closed as problems with the high costs of operation plagued the mine operators. Near the end of the 20th century there were labor actions in the area by miners; in the late '80s due to political changes,<ref>{{Cite news|title = At Gulag Cemetery, a Struggle Against Forgetting|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/27/world/at-gulag-cemetery-a-struggle-against-forgetting.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 1990-08-27|access-date = 2015-10-15|issn = 0362-4331|first = Bill|last = Keller}}</ref> and during the 1990s by those who had not been paid for a year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aha.ru/~mgo/vorkuta.htm|title=Vorkuta Miners Hold Authorities Prisoners|publisher=www.aha.ru|work=Russia Today|access-date=2008-07-18}}</ref>
===Transport===
The town is served by [[Vorkuta Airport]]. During the [[Cold War]], an Arctic Control Group forward staging base for [[strategic bomber]]s was located at [[Vorkuta Sovetsky]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/vorkuta.htm|title=Vorkuta|publisher=www.globalsecurity.org|access-date=2008-07-18}}</ref>
==Climate==
[[File:Vorkuta-kollege.jpg|thumb|Mining College in Vorkuta]]
Vorkuta has a [[subarctic climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]] ''Dfc'') with short cool summers and very cold, long, and snowy winters. The average February temperature is about {{convert|-20|C}}, and in July it is about {{convert|+13|C}}. Vorkuta's climate is influenced both by its distance from the [[North Atlantic]] and the proximity to the [[Arctic Ocean]], bringing cold air in spring. This extends winters well into May and hinders the characteristic interior Russian summer warmth from reaching the city but for rare instances. In spite of this, Vorkuta has less severe winters than areas a lot further south in [[Siberia]] courtesy of the minor maritime moderation that reaches it. This also means that temperatures below {{convert|-50|C|F}} have never been recorded in any winter month but December. During the winter, above-freezing temperatures are rare, but have occurred in all 12 months. With winters being humid, snowfall is a lot more common than in areas further east and a sizeable snow pack is built up each year. Due to the moderately warm summers, Vorkuta lies below the Arctic [[tree line]].
The [[polar day]] in Vorkuta lasts from 30 May to 14 July, the [[polar night]] lasts from 17 December to 27 December.
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|single line=yes
|Jan record high C=1.1
|Feb record high C=1.2
|Mar record high C=5.3
|Apr record high C=12.0
|May record high C=26.5
|Jun record high C=31.0
|Jul record high C=33.8
|Aug record high C=30.0
|Sep record high C=24.2
|Oct record high C=15.6
|Nov record high C=4.8
|Dec record high C=3.5
|year record high C=33.8
|Jan high C=-15.6
|Feb high C=-16.1
|Mar high C=-9.7
|Apr high C=-5.5
|May high C=1.7
|Jun high C = 12.6
|Jul high C = 18.6
|Aug high C = 14.2
|Sep high C = 7.9
|Oct high C = -0.8
|Nov high C = -9.9
|Dec high C = -13.9
|year high C = -1.4
|Jan mean C = -19.5
|Feb mean C = -20.0
|Mar mean C = -13.9
|Apr mean C = -10.0
|May mean C = -1.9
|Jun mean C = 7.6
|Jul mean C = 13.2
|Aug mean C = 9.7
|Sep mean C = 4.3
|Oct mean C = -3.4
|Nov mean C = -13.3
|Dec mean C = -17.6
|year mean C = -5.4
|Jan low C = -23.5
|Feb low C = -23.9
|Mar low C = -18.1
|Apr low C = -14.3
|May low C = -5.2
|Jun low C = 3.3
|Jul low C = 8.2
|Aug low C = 5.8
|Sep low C = 1.2
|Oct low C = -6.1
|Nov low C = -16.8
|Dec low C = -21.6
|year low C = -9.3
|Jan record low C = -48.0
|Feb record low C = -49.4
|Mar record low C = -43.1
|Apr record low C = -38.5
|May record low C = -25.3
|Jun record low C = -8.4
|Jul record low C = -1.0
|Aug record low C = -4.8
|Sep record low C = -10.5
|Oct record low C = -29.0
|Nov record low C = -45.1
|Dec record low C = -52.0
|year record low C = -52.0
|Jan precipitation mm = 36
|Feb precipitation mm = 34
|Mar precipitation mm = 33
|Apr precipitation mm = 27
|May precipitation mm = 35
|Jun precipitation mm = 52
|Jul precipitation mm = 55
|Aug precipitation mm = 63
|Sep precipitation mm = 57
|Oct precipitation mm = 57
|Nov precipitation mm = 40
|Dec precipitation mm = 42
|Jan snow cm = 47
|Feb snow cm = 66
|Mar snow cm = 81
|Apr snow cm = 84
|May snow cm = 53
|Jun snow cm = 4
|Jul snow cm = 0
|Aug snow cm = 0
|Sep snow cm = 0
|Oct snow cm = 6
|Nov snow cm = 17
|Dec snow cm = 30
|Jan humidity = 81
|Feb humidity = 80
|Mar humidity = 81
|Apr humidity = 79
|May humidity = 79
|Jun humidity = 72
|Jul humidity = 74
|Aug humidity = 82
|Sep humidity = 85
|Oct humidity = 88
|Nov humidity = 84
|Dec humidity = 82
|year humidity =
|Jan rain days = 1
|Feb rain days = 0
|Mar rain days = 1
|Apr rain days = 3
|May rain days = 9
|Jun rain days = 16
|Jul rain days = 19
|Aug rain days = 22
|Sep rain days = 19
|Oct rain days = 10
|Nov rain days = 2
|Dec rain days = 1
|Jan snow days = 25
|Feb snow days = 21
|Mar snow days = 23
|Apr snow days = 19
|May snow days = 16
|Jun snow days = 4
|Jul snow days = 0
|Aug snow days = 0
|Sep snow days = 4
|Oct snow days = 18
|Nov snow days = 24
|Dec snow days = 26
|source 1 = Pogoda.ru.net<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.pogoda.ru.net/climate/23226.htm | title = Pogoda.ru.net| access-date = February 16, 2012
| language = ru}}</ref>
|date=February 2012
}}
=== Crumbling permafrost ===
Vorkuta lies on the edge of the [[continuous permafrost]] boundary in Russia, and scientists predict that continued warming could advance the border of continuous permafrost hundreds of miles northward, weakening the earth beneath the vast infrastructure built during the days of the Soviet Union's industrialization of the Arctic.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Myers|first1=S.L.|title=Old Ways of Life Are Fading as the Arctic Thaws|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/20/science/earth/old-ways-of-life-are-fading-as-the-arctic-thaws.html |access-date=5 June 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 20, 2005}}</ref>
[[File:День оленевода 04.11.12 - panoramio (6).jpg|thumb|Vorkuta in 2012]]
==Demographics==
{{Historical populations
|type =
|footnote = Source: Census data
|1943 | 7000
|1959 | 55668
|1970 | 89742
|1979 | 100210
|1989 | 115646
|2002 | 84917
|2010 | 70548
|2021 | 56985
}}
After peaking at 115,000 in 1989, Vorkuta experienced a steady population decline, with many parts of the town abandoned. By 2021, the population had declined by 50% to 57,000.<ref>{{cite web|title=Оценка численности постоянного населения по субъектам Российской Федерации|url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/tab-5_VPN-2020.xlsx|publisher=[[Federal State Statistics Service (Russia)|Federal State Statistics Service]]|accessdate=1 September 2022}}</ref>
As of the [[Russian Census (2021)|2021 Census]], the ethnic composition of Vorkuta was:<ref>{{cite web |title=Национальный состав населения |url=https://11.rosstat.gov.ru/storage//2023/01-26/sNdIgL0A/5-3%20%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%86-%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2_2%20%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F%20%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%20%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BA.xlsx |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website=Rosstat}}</ref>
* [[Russians]] – 81.7%
* [[Ukrainians]] – 4.2%
* [[Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz]] – 2.4%
* [[Tatars]] – 1.7%
* [[Komi peoples|Komi]] – 1.3%
* [[Azerbaijanis]] – 1.1%
* Others – 7.6%
According to the former head of the executive committee of the local branch of the [[United Russia]] party, Anton Glushkov, the city's population statistics are very different from the real state of affairs. According to him, "25,000 to 35,000 people" allegedly live in the [[:ru:Воркута (городской округ)|municipality of the urban district of Vorkuta]]. The rest, in his opinion, are registered by registration but have already moved to the regions of Russia south of the [[Arctic Circle]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.znak.com/2019-11-11/kak_v_nashi_dni_vymiraet_vorkuta_severnoe_eldorado_sovetskogo_soyuza_reportazh_znak_com/ |title=Очень скоро будет город-призрак |trans-title=There will be a ghost town very soon |accessdate=2019-11-11 |archive-date=2019-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111171720/https://www.znak.com/2019-11-11/kak_v_nashi_dni_vymiraet_vorkuta_severnoe_eldorado_sovetskogo_soyuza_reportazh_znak_com |url-status=live}}</ref> One way or another, Vorkuta is the leading city in the Komi Republic and Russia in terms of population reduction.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.komi.kp.ru/daily/26839/3880730/ |title=Более шести тысяч человек покинули Воркуту в 2017 году |trans-title=More than six thousand people left Vorkuta in 2017 |author=Olga Solovey |newspaper=Komi.kp.ru - |date=2018-06-08 |website= |publisher=[[Komsomolskaya Pravda]] |accessdate=2018-10-13 |archive-date=2018-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013211553/https://www.komi.kp.ru/daily/26839/3880730/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.komi.kp.ru/daily/26660/3681715/ |title=Воркута, Ухта, Печора стали лидерами по сокращению численности населения |newspaper=Komi.kp.ru - |trans-title=Vorkuta, Ukhta, Pechora became leaders in population reduction |date=2017-03-31 |publisher=[[Komsomolskaya Pravda]] |accessdate=2018-10-13 |archive-date=2018-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013133039/https://www.komi.kp.ru/daily/26660/3681715/ |url-status=live |last1=Чернов |first1=Валерий }}</ref>
==Notable people==
* [[Pavel Kulizhnikov]], Multiple gold medalist in World and European championship speed skating, The youngest speed skater to win and world record holder for fastest 500m speed.
* [[Nikolay Punin]], Husband of poet Anna Akhmatova. Art scholar, writer and editor of Russian magazine publications. Co-founder of Department of Iconography in the State Russian Museum.
* [[Andrei Nikolishin]], National Hockey League player
* [[Bella Ratchinskaia]], ballet choreographer
==Miscellaneous==
One of the largest coal [[Mining accident|mine disasters]] in Russia occurred at Vorkuta coal mine on 28 February 2016, when [[Vorkuta mine disaster|leaking methane gas ignited]] and killed 32 people, including 26 trapped miners who had been stranded by a similar explosion three days earlier that had killed four miners.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-coal-mine-accident-vorkuta-kills-36-including-5-rescuers-n527461| title = Russian Coal Mine Accident in Vorkuta Kills 36, Including 5 Rescuers | agency = Associated Press | date = 28 February 2016 | access-date = 28 February 2016 }}</ref>
In 2021, Moscow-based photographer Maria Passer photographed abandoned scenes in Vorkuta as part of a photography project that also included the villages of Cementozavodsky and Severny.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Street |first1=Francesca |title=Inside Russia's deep frozen ghost towns |url=https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/vorkuta-russia-frozen-ghost-towns/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=5 March 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210305211041/https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/vorkuta-russia-frozen-ghost-towns/index.html |archive-date=March 5, 2021 |date=5 March 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==References==
===Notes===
{{Reflist}}
===Sources===
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*''Adapted from the article [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930180934/http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Vorkuta Vorkuta], from [[Wikinfo]], licensed under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]].''
==External links==
*[http://www.vorcuta.ru/ The official website of Vorkuta] {{in lang|ru}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110716212950/http://www.geschichtswerkstatt-europa.org/project-details/items/workutlag.html Vorkutlag-Vorkuta. Double remembrance to the Soviet history of the city.]
*[http://www.tomovl.ru/vorkyta.htm Vorkuta. History] {{in lang|ru}}
*[http://cdb-vorkuta.ru/index.php?newsid=1336|The First webcam Vorkuta overlooking the main street of the city] {{in lang|ru}}
*[https://univex-vorkuta.ru/on-line.html Webcam Online]
*Contemporary photographs of Vorkuta
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20031229071749/http://www.usmra.com/members/rustam/070400/vorkuta.html Contemporary photographs of the city on the webpage of the local mine rescue association]
**[http://www.sll.fi/mpe/yugudva/vorkutaphotos/index.html 1996 photos of Vorkuta]
**[http://wwwedu.oulu.fi/sos/tundra/kuvia.htm Links to photos of Vorkuta and Usinsk, 1998] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807214751/http://wwwedu.oulu.fi/sos/tundra/kuvia.htm |date=August 7, 2007 }}
**[http://www.kmp.tul.cz/lide/hrus/hory/rusko2005/galerie.php?gal=vorkuta Rusko 2005 – Galerie: Vorkuta] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210173737/http://www.kmp.tul.cz/lide/hrus/hory/rusko2005/galerie.php?gal=vorkuta |date=December 10, 2018 }} {{in lang|cs}}
*Historical photographs
**[http://www.videofact.com/english/gulags_pictures1.htm Gulag report - Vorkuta] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106205829/http://www.videofact.com/english/gulags_pictures1.htm |date=January 6, 2008 }}
**[http://www.hi.is/~oi/Siberia%20photos/14%20-Gulag%20settlement%20outside%20Vorkuta.jpg Gulag settlement outside Vorkuta]
*Other photographs
**[http://www.hansrossel.com/fotos/fotografie/rusland/rus_d3352.htm Wooden crosses of the German prisoners of the Gulag]
**[http://maurice.strahlen.org/timan/vorkuta_coal_mines.htm Vorkuta coal mines]
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20060414183120/http://vnd-vorkuta.h11.ru/Foto/Poselki.htm Places and mines - Vorkuta] {{in lang|ru}}
**[https://tvoyavorkuta.ru/]
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