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[u/glr123]

This is Norilsk city. Located in Russian Siberia this city hosts the biggest in Russia factory producing “rare” metals. It is even can be called a world leader when speaking about the worldwide production share it contributes. That’s like 35% of palladium production, 25% of platinum, 20% of nickel, 10% of cobalt that are being made in modern world come from Norilsk, which makes it having number one of such kind factories in Russia. The price they pay for this is that 2% of total world CO2 production is coming from this city too. The area of 100 000 hectares (50,000 acres) around the city is consists of burned down forests. It was widely recognized one of the worst ecology city in the world and the average life expectancy is ten years less than the average values across the Russia. Those photos were made there this May, and as you can see that’s not a warmest place in the world too. It’s common to have the snow in May out there. But life is still going on. More than 160,000 people live there today, and children of the city still think that their place is the best place in the world, as we all someday thought back in our childhood.

Photos

Source may not be accurate, the photos are amazing though.

[u/DrHENCHMAN → u/glr123]

Holy shit, if this city is literally the northernmost city in Siberia, why are there so many photos of people running around in swim suits and jumping into lakes??

[u/mrdeadsniper]

This is what every single one of my sim citys end up looking like..

[u/JUST_GIVE_IT_A_TRY]

This is what I imagined the city in George Orwell's 1984 to look like.

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I imagine it like Pyongyang, only with more hope.

[u/MegainPhoto]

"Within 30 miles (48 km) of the nickel smelter there's not a single living tree," says Fuller. "It's just a wasteland."

damn

[u/[deleted]]

"By some estimates, 1 percent of the entire global emissions of sulfur dioxide comes from this one city."

Woah. The Wikipedia article on it is equally as depressing. Link for the lazy.

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What I find more flabbergasting is that heavy metal pollution near Norilsk is so severe that mining the surface soil is now economically feasible.

[u/bitparity]

"It is good you come in summer. In winter, it can get veeery depressing."

[u/ffree]

Been there a couple of times. It is indeed a bit depressing and way too polluted, but the citizens have a rather big salaries in comparison with the rest of the Russian regions.

So mostly parents who work there send their children to study in St. Pete or Moscow, and they don't come back.

[u/Pay_attentionmore]

i see how tetris could come from this

[u/TreeRifik]

At least all the buildings have courtyards. It's all about the nickel lining people.

[u/CitizenPremier]

this looks like a great place to film a movie.

[u/isableandaking]

a little restoration

[u/alexacto]

In the year 1987 I was in Norilsk on a research trip to collect snow. We melted that snow and fed it to the rats in our lab. All kinds of cancers were blooming in a majority of our rat population. What you can't see in the picture is the paint being dissolved on the walls of the buildings. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that all of this used to be wooded area. Not a single tree left for miles.

[u/Tuckyoursackback]

It appears that the city is doing quite... well? http://www.norilskrussia.net/norilsk-people

[u/muopioid]

• Streets generally free of litter

• Clean, geometric building design

• Lots of space between buildings

• Some nice scenery in the horizon

9/10, will relocate.

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Nice to see RIT on reddit again

[u/peel_]

I know I'm late to the thread but I'm struck by how similar this is to the Contemporary City for 3 Million by Le Corbusier. Granted, he had some plans to install transportation networks, but I still think his vision was kinda shitty since it led to things like this and Pruitt Igoe

[u/gerwalking]

It's the lack of trees that makes it look so grim.

[u/WaywardSpaniard]

Wow no wonder all my porn is from Russia, they have nothing better to do than stay inside and screw.

[u/jimminybillybob123]

AMA from someone that lives there?

[u/FailosoRaptor]

This image is surreal. This just looks like ancient city ruins. And it looks like a fortress. The entire city looks like it was built mathematically and without any randomness involved. What would you think if you studied this 500 years from now.

[u/[deleted]]

The completely random angles of some of these buildings upsets me.

[u/[deleted]]

You see a depressing city. I see a good post apocalyptic FPS map.