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Date: 2021-04-10 00:00:00 [2]
Above The Arctic Circle, A Soviet-Era Metropolis Battles A 'Drawn-Out Death'
Vorkuta was once the centre of a sprawling network of coal mines scattered around the Arctic city of 220,000 residents like the hour indicators on a vast clockface. Today, most of the settlements are ghost towns, and time is ticking away as a shrinking Vorkuta fights to avoid the same fate.
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