So, Norilsk is isolated from the rest of the world, I think not.Isolation is a lot more about your attitude than circumstance. Keeping that in mind, these high prices ensure you have a quality meal consisting of a cold cut of sausage, rye-bread and cheese.If you’re a foreigner and have this permission, do bring a copy to the airport or you will not be checked in for your flight. Luckily for me, half of it was in English, though, that did little to help as I single-handedly dragged our team into nearly dead-last position. Then, from those few people that try to reach the nether-regions of Russia, there may be the odd adventurer who entertains the idea of Yakutsk or Magadan on a depressing winter’s day.Finally, after all of these posers, there are very few people who know of, have heard of or have had the opportunity to visit Norilsk. Even Soviet citizens needed special written permission to visit. But does geographical isolation equal complete and utter isolation?Norilsk has faster internet and better mobile phone coverage than my home state in Australia. The fact that the country's children were warbling away about the wealth of a private farmer would have been unthinkable under Stalin.


Then, and only then, could you board a passenger plane to any other part of Russia. "It was in many ways the perfect vantage point from which to chronicle the collapse of the Soviet Union." And somehow, while it is a grim and depressing thought, I can't help feeling somehow that Norilsk will open again one day. For such a small and isolated city, the main road is quite pleasing to the eye.

But why so much effort to smelt? Metals firm Norilsk Nickel shut down one of its factories in June in an attempt to clean up the notoriously polluted city. You really can’t go past “Burger Ring”. This seems to be one of these buzz-words that are so darn associated with the city, for some reason.Well in fact, I can’t really argue against the point. It is the northernmost city in the world, home to around 170,000+ people. If you want to visit this place, then before even bothering to plan a route, plan on getting permission from the FSB (formerly known as the KGB). In that world before the internet, mobile phones and satellite television, the spiritual cost of the isolation was probably even greater, although harder to measure. During the previous couple of summers, our good friends at Norilsk Airport strategically closed half the runway and in turn you had to take a small chartered flight to the nearby city of Novy Urengoy. But! This serves as a port for Norilsk where you can see all sorts of cranes, trains and ice-breaker ships. These people walk, sometimes crawl, the streets knowing that there are no roads and railways that can take them away, the only escape from Norilsk is by flight.Surrounding the city in almost any direction there are nickel and copper factories working day and night, 365 days a year, smelting metals and pumping fumes into the air, the nearby lakes and rivers.A lot could be said about these claims of heart-stopping cold, extreme weather, complete isolation and severe pollution. As the Soviet economy opened up, prices soared and the rouble collapsed against the dollar - and their high wages became meaningless. If you want to visit this place, then before even bothering to plan a route, plan on getting permission from the FSB (formerly known as the KGB). Hidden in the taiga forests of the Arkhangelsk Oblast, Mirny is one of the most mysterious … If you’re like me and suddenly realise you have done nothing but expanding your stomach inside a café, you’ll probably want to go burn up some calories. Below is the Norilsk Polar Drama Theatre, the northernmost theatre in the world. It’s there to mine and smelt metals, the pollution just kind of goes hand in hand with it, one of those love it or leave it situations.I did notice I developed a rather strange dry and irritable cough after walking around the city on my first day – I had been outside for about 20 minutes when this happened. Norilsk was built for the purpose of extracting and smelting down precious metals. In the winter, workers sometimes can't wait at a bus stop for fear of freezing t… In Norilsk it isn’t uncommon to see the odd grandmother being blown along the ground like a stray umbrella. Something about it really got to me the last day and I had never felt a more solemn feeling upon leaving a Russian city.Perhaps it’s this sense of heavily relying on each other for safety, happiness, entertainment and a sense of companionship that made the people of Norilsk so extremely hospitable and friendly, contributing to me never wanting to leave.Or perhaps it’s seeing familiar things pop up in unfamiliar places…Прикольнули слова про “близлежащие деревни Кайеркан и Талнах” ))))An interesting take on ordinary things – I like it!One of the most interesting blogs I’ve read in a while and now I’m sad I can’t go there Thanks for the kind words. Well it is built on the worlds largest-known deposit of nickel, copper and palladium deposit, exceeding 1.8 billion tonnes and generates a serious amount of revenue for Russia.If you’re expecting it to be just a run-of-the-mill city people decided to settle, way the hell inside the arctic circle, almost unreachable by anyone, then you probably need to check in at old-shady-acres mental institution and get examined. I also managed to sneak a coffee in a small café inside of a supermarket called Zhar Ptitsa, I know…it’s so European!There are endless hiking opportunities. This will cost you around 1200 rubles. If this isn’t your scene there are other café options along Leninsky Prospect. A month's salary might still be two or three times the Russian average but suddenly it wasn't enough to buy a pair of shoes.


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