Norilsk

[jebby16]

So this is what Chernobyl would have looked like but with more modern architecture.

[cubanpete2100]

yeah.....but does it have mcdonalds?!

[Anders4921]

visit Norilsk is one of my the biggest wishes ... good luck to Norilsk people from CZ :)

[Isochest]

Does it ever get a little warm? Can you grow any vegetables here?

[nehorosshev]

In July and august there is about +20-25 deg C, but usually 13 - 15 and steady rain. Vegetables grows only in special greenhouses. All the food is imported from other regions by air in winter (and by river water during July – September) so any kind of goods are very expensive.

[Isochest]

@nehorosshev That's not good that ordinary people cannot grow something to store for winter. Perhaps people have to hunt for wild animals and fish to supplement their diet. I would imagine there is a high level of ownership of shotguns/hunting rifles for this purpose

[craigjonesslipknot5]

@nehorosshev Isn't Norilsk very polluted due to Norilsk Nickel?

[A80B98]

aca en chile, sudamerica, a lo mucho llega a -4C y en la cordillera de los andes

-33C, pero aqui en norilsk -55C es una locura.

igual me gustaria visitar norilsk, tengo un compañero ruso de universidad, le preguntare mas sobre su pais.

[MrChilenito18]

@A80B98 weon ni cagando te vayai pa esa ciudad, es una de las mas comtaminadas del mundo, alli no crecen arboles en un radio de 45 kilometros x la lluvia acida y la gente tiene una esperanza de vida de 45 años, y la nieve alli es de color negro, pon en google fotos esa ciudad y vai a ver q es el infierno.

[Musketor]

This must be the most depressing city in the world. Coldest city, one of the most polluted and with an architecture that makes every 60s politician jizz in their pants. That's why I want to visit it!

[igorynus1978]

тут я смотрю у всех проблемы с русским )))))

[valerysgirl]

Wow, so cold in Russia, but would be a great experience to visit a real Russian Winter.

[NanoTechStone1]

Спасибо за видео..

[nehorosshev]

Рад,  что понравилось :-)

[ZenTaww]

beautiful..

[kazimann]

Could this be the most depressing city on the planet?

[Ura293]

@kazimann those are people who make places depressing-one may be depressed in Paris,but happy at remoute station in Antarctida-if you ask any English speaking person WHO are the most depresing people-they would say - Irish-so, no surprise about your question-depression is problem of yours, not of Norilsk, which is awesome if to think where it is situated and how big it is at this latitude-there are no other such precedents in the world- in NorthAmerica they got tiny villages at such latitudes

[kazimann]

@Ura293 The Irish are the most depressing people? That's laughable! Have you ever been to Ireland? Go to Temple Bar in Dublin city on a Saturday night and you'll be hard pressed to find any 'depression' there.

Recession, now that's another matter!

[NanoTechStone1]

@kazimann

;-)) maybe..But you go in bar in Russia..,and you will get effect in all life...Trust me...

There real life..

[scpmr]

This city is a huge moneymaker for the Russia's budget

[scpmr]

the music suits well

[hristo7777]

my father used to work in Norilsk, his company (from Croatia) built several of biggest buuldings in town

it was i think from 1986-1990 or something like this

he talked about city a lot, but most of talks were about how people are friendly, and like to drink in every social occasion

I recognised the city name today reading about most poluted places in the world, he did mention some huge factory there, but I had no idea is was that bad

also I had no idea city is closed for foreigners

[xandinho07]

Nós brasileiros n sabemos o que é esse frio -50°C é muuuuitoo frio

a gente morre de frio num lugar q faça uns 0 graus imagine 50 negativo. muuuuiitoo frioo

[xandinho07]

nossa eu queria morar nessa cidade muito daora

[huuhko]

nuclear army base is close to the city..in the mountains of putoran.

NO EXIT, for foreigners.

[lyalin1977]

@huuhko

And still a horror story write and after all will believe. If небыл there so not that any hogwash to write.

[TuckmanJiggityJones]

I'll never bitch about winter in New York again...

[pimpdaddywompa1]

i know why it's a closed city but how do you close a city? just curious.

[scpmr]

Closed for foreigners. They just don't allow you to fly there by plane. And there's no other way to get there.

[sagepayan]

what's the music on this, is there any way of getting it?

[nehorosshev]

the music is "One of These Days" from Pink Floyd's "Meddle" Album

[sagepayan]

cheers bruv

[rhomis]

Looks like the slum areas of Pittsburgh, after the mills were shut down. So far, i don't see anything unusual.

[ralucagymnast]

Incredible place; what year was this taken? and in what month? Just looks quite deserted doesnt it? Are there shopping precincts? And nightclubs, etc??

[nehorosshev]

Video was made occasionally in december 2006 (by cheap photocamera :-) By the way it was midday, so you can see here real "polar night", when there is no sun at all during few winter months. December and January temperature usually falls to -55 degr C (-67 degr F). Industrial outskirts is shown, so in the center of the city there is some shopping, theaters and clubs of course.

[lunchboxattacks1]

Norilsk. Well it doesn't look like the most fantastic place to live in the world it must be said. But the mere fact that it is out in the middle of northernmost Siberia and is CLOSED to foreigners makes it an attractive destination for the more adventurous traveller. Not that there would be a lot there for them I fear. I'd like to go but for several reasons I prob won't, one of them being I can't speak Russian. Probably too cold for me too. In Ireland we love our mild temperatures.:P

[Theshadeweaver]

Norilsk is considered as the fourht most polluted city in the world. It`s hard for me to understand how can people be "kind, cheerful and very sympathetic" in this freezing wasteland

[xxlukeyjxx]

This looks like something from a post apocalyptic horror movie! Nasty.

[tarikboss]

this city is fucked up man... imagine living there, shittt

[stealification]

i live there its -100 degrees celcius right now

[angelo4angelo]

One of my preferit city,the last flag of Komunists

[trythisgame]

And in Norilsk line not sad people. There all kind, cheerful and very sympathetic people.

[trythisgame]

Whether most of all I am am amazed with people which ask there is at us there an Internet, news, cars and whether we live with bears?! Children, there are ALL. There there are night clubs, cinemas, the bars, expensive restaurants, bowling, cars, the Internet and all all all that is in any other city and with bears we do not live, but they is not far from a city:)

[trythisgame]

Novosibirsk - though also Siberia but temperatures here small. Norilsk is an especial place who there did not live, that never will understand in what feature of this city, and to explain it difficult.

[mazurkaawic]

В норильске есть большой горно-обогатительный комбинат, который очень загрязняет воздух в городе, помимо этого там еще и холодно постоянно, практически нет лета, очень далеко от остальной россии...

[qirbaschnik]

i love siberian tundra and taiga,and i feel bad for norilsk..people dying here from cancer and other dises..the forest near norilsk is dead..ecological is here a katastrophe...WAKE UP and stop that.

[nicenic6630]

Why would anybody want to live there. It is a dump

[Heidom90]

Norilsk no fun!

[piro4351]

worst, most unpleasant city to live in the world, hands down

[erykp]

my dream is to visit this place...

[Heidom90]

no, you don't want to do that!!!!!!!!

[richards266]

Norilsk is one baddass city! And I have been to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories; the coldest city in North America. This looks much more brutal!

[shelbymainzer]

To give you an idea polluted water and air make life expectancy in this city around just 40 years. Within 30 miles of the city, there is not a single living tree.Average temperature is about 14 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 Celcius). The city is covered with snow for about 250-270 days a year, with snow storms for about 110-130 days

[freakliberator]

norilsk its the fourth most contaminated place in the world!!

REMEMBER THIS!!

[iiloveis]

I like Norilsk! You can feel the elements, you can look at the horizon, and knowing that hundreds of thousands of miles around there is nobody - only tundra. The polar lights, polar night, polar day in summer, aromas that surround you in the tundra (away from the plant and the city), all these numerous lakes, rivers, hills, mountains...

[nicenic6630]

And no trees for 35 km

[ulPartizan4ik]

Не езжай лучше :-) Я сам жил там 12 лет. Холоднее места нет на земле. :-)

[dimssblya]

Вот одно из мест, куда хотклось бы съездить на пару дней, просто посмотреть. Но, боюсь, не пустят меня туда с моим паспортом :)

[gigisiwolf]

HI . LOOKS TO SE NICE

don' t worry just came in Canada and you 'll se how ofull are all the cities , and the house are just in wood and paer and burn in 2 minutes they are not able to build such a town in north In for ex Calgary is what wok-sleep-work thats all! and polution too so Norilsk is not the only town sad on the planet

[lalomir2000]

but one thing if YOU decide to live there, another diferent is to be FORCED. This city was populated with the terrible gulags of Stalin

[lalomir2000]

It´s a nice video. I´m not russian but it{s makes me have a lot of melancholy and a bit sad for the people who were forced to live there. It´s like another world, another civilization, a zombies city, just a place to work ! from home to work and work to home, worst than dead, in the middle of nobody, cold, polution and snow almost every year :O. ... I guess they even have not access to media in soviet times. I repeat I´m sad for the people there, they live worst than animals.

[trythisgame]

I was born and have grown in Norilsk. As everything was not strange at us, we what never to itself refused, even in heavy 80-90 years we had ALL. Believe all children there live better animals. I consider, I had the happiest childhood which only can be. At us all that was necessary for the child. Coldly speak? Gaza is a lot of? So same also there is a city highlight. I have left from Norilsk 4 years ago. Now I live in Novosibirsk. Here very much there is no gas and frosts.

[raminey]

это снято в какое время дня? это уже полярная ночь?

[nehorosshev]

Снято около часа дня, да, полярная ночь в самом разгаре.

[raminey]

cold and sad

[marlaypk]

Norilsk,well inside the Arctic Circle,one of the coldest and polluted cities in the world.The music is Pink Floyd"One of these days"from the album "Meddle"

[daexaminer]

You guys don't even know what norilsk is. norilisk is one of the most polluted place around the world. It used to be a slave labour camp. Living there is like a death sentence. Infact, its closed to all public from outside countries.

[1293i]

idiot

[junomelbourne]

great video, great soundtrack and amazing city - would love to visit it! Thanks mj

[valkrsk]

Norilsk is worst place on Earth. It is one of the northernmost big city in the World whith 356 days of winter (the rest is summer)...

[12valvepower1]

pre-fab town. gotta love russian architecture. very straight forward and to the pointe

[roswellatup]

damn, i hate to be stranded here

[roswellatup]

what a creepy, lonely place... those industrial buildings just give me the creeps

[12valvepower1]

hahahahaha

[MutantHippie]

the ass end of nowhere

[yarik111]

Living in Norilsk is not as exciting as you think. It is very cold, gloomy, and generally unpleasant.

However, like one of gusgorilla76 said peole from Norilsk used to be a real contrast to how th place looks and feels. Rough environment brought out the best in people.

Not anymore, from what I've heard that generation is almost out of Norilsk, and now more people are vicious an gloomy like the place itself.

[KHAAAAAAAAN]

"The city is covered with snow for about 250-270 days a year, with snow storms for about 110-130 days. The polar night lasts from December through mid-January, so that Norilsk inhabitants do not see the sun at all for about six weeks.

It is also one of the 10 most polluted places on earth"

Oh wow, got to pity people living there

[scpmr]

темно, холодно, уныло

[toy2day]

Very nice video!! Must be really great visiting Norilsk. By the way, what's the music on this video?

[gusgorilla76]

Fascinating to see this place after hearing so much about it. I once went out with a girl from Norilsk and her beauty and gentleness was an amazing contrast to this bleak, industrial and cold city. toy2day, the music is "One of These Days" from Pink Floyd's "Meddle" Album.

[Seby4446]

Hey, what's it like living in Norilsk? It must be extremely cold there.

[diablo2geek]

Looks like an awesome city!

I've read all this stuff about it being "very polluted" and "horrible to live in" (I don't believe this). How is it really?

Sounds like a very unique and interesting place to visit, especially in winter. Too bad it's closed ;)

[Taraborn]

The most charming city in the world...

[nehorosshev]

Hello ! Thank you for your comment, it`s nice to hear that you like the video/ my english is very poor, sorry

By the way, once upon a time i was in Barcelona and Tarragona - fascinating and beautiful places/

good luck

[soyuzvladi]

Hello, is Norilsk a large city of metal factories place? as far as i know Norils is the biggest melting metals place in the world

[nehorosshev]

Yes, you are absolutely right. Norilsk is nikel factory in Taimyr ( Siberia, Russia), 70 degr north. (Ex my engl pls)

[nehorosshev]

And in feb 2007 there was freez cold much as - 58C below zero :-))

[soyuzvladi]

Dear nehorosshev i am talking woth you from MEXICO CITY - very very far away from Russia - but when i was a child in the 70s my mother received the FRIENDSHIP CCCP magazine and i want you to know thata i am very very interested to know anything about your great and fascinating country, i guess thata Norils is a strange different and not-usual city, many people thinks that is ugly unhospit nor something similar, i dont think so... REGARDS FROM MEXICO

[Pashuco787]

Красивый город!

[nehorosshev]

И очень завораживающий :-)

[12valvepower]

dialeks are cool

[nehorosshev]

what is "dialeks"?

[12valvepower]

ever watch doctor who. that show has dialeks. theyre strange aliens that look like dishwashers

[LPBreakingTheHabit]

Fascinating place really, I read a lot about this city and I'd love to know what its like to live there.

[MiddletownDreamz]

Nice town. It was built entirely by GULAG slave labor under Stalin.

[Yardana28]

Eto prekrasni gorod <3

[nehorosshev]

Несомненно :-)

[100latu]

Должно быть ОЧЕНЬ холодно!

[nehorosshev]

Есть такое дело  :-)

[ladaladaladalada]

spaseeba russia

[nehorosshev]

welcome !

[lenadasha]

Great, once I will go there!!

[nehorosshev]

очень рад, что Вам понравилось :-)

[targon5]

Ой я свой дом бывший в Кайеркане увидел!

Спасибо огромное! Ностальгия...