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 ...

Additionally, before 2024, the city’s 1,860 families will receive social payments to buy new housing in regions with a better climate and social-economic conditions MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The ...

It was 2 a.m. and the sun was shining, as it does day and night in mid-July in Norilsk, a Siberian city 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Igor Klyushin went to the bank of the river where he used ...

NORILSK, Russia -- Photographer Aleksandr Kharitonov grew up in the remote Russian mining city of Norilsk, located above the Arctic Circle. His images of its landscapes, remnants of its Soviet past, ...

Norilsk, the world’s most northern city, has been dubbed one of the world’s most polluted cities by experts. The small city of about 176,000 started experiencing its pollution during the early days of ...

AMMA will be the world’s northernmost museum of modern arts KRASNOYARSK, June 15. /TASS/. The Arctic Museum of Modern Art (AMMA), which will be the northernmost museum of the kind, will open by 2025 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed a proposal to declare a state of emergency on a federal scale, days after a diesel fuel leak seeped into local rivers, threatening an ecological disaster in ...