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Welcome to Norilsk - the Very Definition of Cold Hell
Norilsk is a true "Wild East" Siberian town, the quintessence of tough living, tough conditions and tough-as-nails people.
Dark Roasted Blend: Siberian "Ghost" Cities Scare
- minus 10 degrees Celsius is considered "warm weather"
- this city is built on permafrost, so buildings deteriorate quickly and most are in crumbling conditions
- the city was originally built by prisoners (untold numbers of them died), so it is very probably haunted... (no, of course not, just kidding)
- the industrial pollution is on par with the worst towns in China - it's officially one of the ten most polluted cities in the world
- there are no homeless people, because nobody can survive minus 56 degrees Celsius.
- they have literally 45 days of night - the depressing, miserable Arctic night
- the city often endures severe punishing winds, up to 25 meters per secondThe ecology around Norilsk is so atrocious that trees can spontaneously ignite from industrial chemicals in the ground - and so only burned sticks are left
- Last sentence could be just natural methane leaking from the permafrost.detritus
- http://en.wikipedia.…detritus
- *packs bags.ETM
- measuring wind in m/second? c'mon sonfreeskihp
- pfff, easybenfal99
- This is hilarious > http://www.norilskru…dawplucker