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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 Komi Republic (Russian: Республика Коми; Komi: Коми Республика), sometimes simply referred to as Komi, is a republic of Russia. Its capital is the city of Syktyvkar .
We arrive in Vorkuta, the world's fourth largest city above the Arctic Circle, in the last days of November and immediately find ourselves at the ‘Festival of the North’. It was amazing to see ...
- Anna Sorokina
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 ...
Vorkuta is a coal mining city up in the Polar Circle and most of its inhabitants are Russians, not Komis. That explains the “double loyalty” implied in the flag design. António Martins , 09 March 2003
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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.
