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Vorkuta

American  
[vawr-koo-tuh] / vɔrˈku tə /

noun

  1. a city N of the Arctic Circle, in the Komi Republic, in NE European Russia.


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Prisoners in the Vorkuta Gulag, a major Soviet labor camp, in 1945.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2022

Kovach’s father, Ivan Kovach, met Kovachova when they were prisoners in the Vorkuta gulag in northern Russia.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2019

While he pays campaign staff in the big cities, Navalny mostly relies on unpaid volunteers in places like the gritty coal-mining town of Vorkuta and the picturesque ski resort of Gorno-Altaysk.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2017

This is the northernmost Europe-Asia border marker, being the intersection of the Ural range with the northernmost East-West means of transportation, the train between two Russian Arctic outposts, Salekhard and Vorkuta.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2017

Between the River Ussa and the River Vorkuta, and even beyond that, Trontheim and his company travelled through quite luxuriant wood.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Nansen, Fridtjof