Vorkuta
Americannoun
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Prisoners in the Vorkuta Gulag, a major Soviet labor camp, in 1945.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
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
The dead included six rescue workers killed early Sunday when the third explosion rocked the Severnaya mine in Vorkuta, a town north of the Arctic Circle in the Komi region, emergency officials said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2016
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
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