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It is the world's northernmost city with more than 180,000 inhabitants, and the second-largest city (after Murmansk) inside the Arctic Circle. Norilsk and Yakutsk are the only large cities in the continuous permafrost zone. Norilsk is located atop some of the largest nickel deposits on Earth. Consequently, mining and smelting ore are the major ...
Dikson (Russian: Ди́ксон, IPA:) (also spelled Dixon) is a port located in northern Russia and is one of the world's northernmost settlements.Dikson is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) situated in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai.
The northernmost and easternmost points of Russia coincide with those of Eurasia (both for the mainland and including the islands). The extreme points of the Soviet Union were identical, except that the southernmost point of the Soviet Union was Kushka in Turkmenistan , and the extreme elevation was the Communism Peak in Tajikistan , at 7,495 ...
This is a list showing all of the northernmost settlements on Earth, which are all south of latitude 90° N. There are no permanent civilian settlements north of 79° N , the furthest north (78.55° N) being Ny-Ålesund , a permanent settlement of about 30 (in the winter) to 130 (in the summer) people on the Norwegian island of Svalbard .
This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census , there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia. After the Census, Innopolis , a town in the Republic of Tatarstan , was established in 2012 and granted town status in 2015.
Here are five surprising things about living in Earth's northernmost town. Alcohol is rationed in Svalbard Residents receive an alcohol card that limits how much beer and spirits they can buy each ...
The Far North is known for its extremely harsh climate. People who work there, other than the inmates of labor camps that constituted the Gulag system of the Soviet Union and the inmates of corrective labor colonies in present-day Russia, receive an extra grade of payment, referred to as the "Northern Bonus" (severnye nadbavki Russian: северные надбавки).
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