Exploring Vorkuta - Russian Ghost Town in Arctic | The Most Depressing Town in Russia 

the decaying forgotten state it's in now is what makes me want to visit so strongly theres nothing like that here in england.

@Sergej Kosychin When did move from Vorkuta and why?

@Caleb OKAY a great one is Cairo, Ilinois

Better then ever ,now it is a quiet nice place.

¿And where are you living now?

You can buy an apartment for free

@@anmetious4779 In Russia an apartment pays you to live in it.

@@vladimirrodionov5391in ohoi they pay yout to bebd over and use pro jelly lubricant only

@@vladimirrodionov5391 Apartment lives in you

I can imagine that very well, yes, definitely an amazing contrast! 😅

you are lucky your parents had the sense to leave

@@jamble7k I was adopted from Russia......like I said. My adoptive parents aren't from there, lol

hey, what was your home town after Vorkuta?

@@denj4s I briefly lived right outside Moscow when I was put up for adoption. My adoptive parents are from the Northeast United States, so they flew over to adopt me. Once all the paperwork was finished, I obviously went with them back to the United States, and a grew up there most of my life. Since I was so young when I was adopted I barely remember anything from when I was in Russia. Just some vague images and memories here and there, although they might not even be real lol

@@LuckyOwI777 was it in the 90s? adopting kids was quite popular around that time, there were stories about people that were collecting kids from all sorts of poor countries who were happy to get rid of them and then exploited them in different ways. glad you get a family.

Can't take your hat off there. Your head will freeze!🤣

@James Kirk and still even in democracy exist. It's just called lobbying or sponsoring 😂

@James Kirk Communism is an optimistic ideology but it bows down to human nature.

It was a heavy duty labour prison, mostly for political dissidents, people were forced to live there.

Vodka gets honorable mention.

The man, the myth, the legend. I was waiting to see it here and you came in clutch.

nostalgia hurts

Most Russians don't even have stable access to water and electricity. But they are brainwashed to think it's the best country in the world

@@gyeok4475 Lol, you confused Russia whith USA.

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Why do you love the weather my friend?

go home.

I am at home

@@hia5235 What a stupid comment. If you can not add anything constructive, keep your mouth shut.

Where Are you living now??

Well if you left you are part of the problem.

What is the timing?

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Memorial doesn't work on keeping memories. It is keen on twisting Russian history on behalf of its western sponsors. So I am only glad its activity has been stopped.

@@user-ss3pq4wt7j Hello comrade Kremlebot. So, how does it work nowadays? Are you still payed 50 rubles a comment or is it a daily salary? In anycase, your decency comes very cheap.

@@gerhardvonschiffe854 Looks like you are a Ukrainian or neoliberal with zero respect to anyone not supporting your ideas. As in an old joke, there are two opinions. One is mine, the other is false. I am afraid you belong to two percent minority imagining they know the truth and the rest of the people are stupid beasts. That's exactly the reason why you are not respected or supported in Russia. If you by any chance read the novel of Dostoevsky the Karamazov brothers, then you must know the character of Smerdyakov. That's what neoliberals in Russia are.

@@user-ss3pq4wt7j Hey, you forgot the key words "children of Donbass", "gayropa" and "decadent Western civilization".

@@gerhardvonschiffe854 sorry not to meet your expectations. Unlike trolls of your sort I stick to one point and don't try to bombard the opponent with hundreds of doubtful statements at once

donate i did

I sent also , wish those dogs could find a good home with a family but I dont think they ever will

I also donated 😌

The shelter in Vorkuta writes that they do have only bank card no PayPal. I wonder to whom these payments go

@@satusalmivirta9840 Майорова Ирина Сергеевна this is the name

Good commentary! These towns remind me of the abandoned coal-mining and industrial heavy towns in Pennsylvania, Virginia, W. VA, etc. that are literal ghost-towns and frozen in time. It blows my mind how much can change in a couple of generations.

This is due to the general depopulation and degradation of Russia.

Actually Vorkuta was initially set up as Vorkutlag, a GULAG labour camp. The city was only incorporated during the second world war after the camp and a settlement for staff and 'free laborers' was already established for 10 years. The main reason for incorporating the city was because the camp coal mines became the main source of the USSR's coal after the loss of the donbass reigon and so the government needed to create the facade that Vorkuta was a city not a sprawling camp complex The creation of the 'company town' was an attempt to make up for the loss of convict labour following the mass gulag amnesties in the 1950s, however a lot of former prisoners ended up staying on in Vorkuta because of the lucrative pay and the fact they had no where else to go. In fact before a housing program under Kruschchev most of the cities building were simply repurposed camp vehicles. 'd recommend 'Gulag Town, Company Town' by Alan Barenberg if Vorkuta interests you.

Easy to say sitting in your 1500 sq ft home eating steak.... unfortunately we Americans have been pampered so much we are out of touch with just how rough life can be, time to face some bigger issues

in the Southern usa its the same cotton mills gave birth to many cities and towns once they left the prosperity of these once bustling towns was greatly reduced ....

people live in Central Australia and Arizona - c`mon, weather conditions there are no better.

Wow. I cannot imagine the hardships she and others faced there. Being so cold and laying tracks amongst other things! I would love more detail whenever you feel like giving them. Thank you.

So interesting would love to hear her story

Stalin was a crazy m... f...

The Soviet nostalgia posts get thousands of likes while this, an example of what the monstrosity truly was, gets ignored.

​@Anonymer Nutzer Guys, please tell me why the power of such a bloody leader was held until his death? Why wasn't he deposed by a popular uprising?

Gulag,ah remember me to escape vorkuta

@ TD B A lot of people certainly didn't have happy memories of this place in the past. Camp Vorkuta was one of the biggest and most cruel camps of the Soviet GULAG system. Over a million people were incarcerated there and were forced to do labor in coal mines. Lots of people died.

@@AM-sm9kg he's Australian. The whole purpose of his country was gulag for the British convicts.

an easier place u can go to is finland. moldy 60’s and 70’s apartments

So tell him what does your “black cube” represents. Research your monument. There are more satanic statues called “modern art” that is satanic worship than anyone realizes. And that is why the world is heading in the direction it is going. The demons have been loosed. Call me crazy, fine but when they start to manifest contact me. I’ll tell you what you must do.

I doubt it , if they had alot of good memories so many people wouldnt have left

That would be weird as F , looking around, quiet and not seeing anybody,

Silent Hill Shattered Memories moment

something tells me this place still has a future ahead in the end ... if you catch my meaning

@@XGY179 great thanks for that ;_;

@@2face869 your welcome , you know like a far cry game like end of the times and this is the only place left and it’s got soldiers people trying to live and probably some bad guys and someone trying to stop them in the frozen hell in Russia

Привет. Я из Воркуты. Компания "Воркута Уголь" оплачивала переезжающим железнодорожный контейнер для перевозки личных вещей. Многие люди из Воркуты не покупали новую мебель и другие вещи, потому что у них есть квартиры в других теплых городах.

8 dogs a day is the average amount that die in Vorkuta

His videos deserve millions of views.

@@rolfrevman i totaly agree without you!

Welcome to the group

It gives me COD Black Ops vibes

I’m from England and visited Krakow and Katowice it was very nice and clean

It's sad to hear about snow, many in Europe say that the snow is getting less and less.I live in Siberia and a few years ago we didn't have snow until the very new year, everyone was in shock, and the children usually were used to playing snowballs, making snowmen, etc. by this time. Now it was raining recently, although at this time the thermometer should already show - 20 degrees Celsius

What there is never snow in Krakow? I live in Czech republic and there was snow everywhere just 3 days ago.

@@sadcookie7401 - He’s exaggerating. There was little snow in the 2010s, but it came back on a big scale in 2020, and 2021/22 promises to be another heavy snow year.

The people who support a lunatic dictator and invading other countries? Nah, they don't.

Probably took a few days to even get the news of the collapse.

Central planning was the only thing keeping these places functional

that's what happens when you imprison your own population in artificially-created frozen hells. When people are given the choice, they live. The collapse of communism meant liberation after 70 years of slavery.

Bald and bankrupt did a video in Russia. He actually spoke with an old lady living in a massive , crumbling building. She said that they thought things would be different and better when it changed, but it just got worse and worse. :( His channel is also a great one to check out! :)

Coal mining towns in northern England were left destitute and communities destroyed in the 80s under Thatcher. Brutal.

agreed were i am there were alot of factorys been they all started closing down alot of people have left myself included

Mining communities always eventually become a ghost town, since mankind has been digging. It's just inevitable.

Need to clean it up before just building new cities.

I saw the inside of a house like that in the film Doctor Zhivago with Omar Sharif….. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2EKDKks9qtA.htmlsi=DvKWV93MYSG_BY5G

People still live there :/

@@THICCTHICCTHICC Most homes are abandoned. I highly doubt there is anything scary in those houses.

Потому что это пост апокалипсис. Эт орпоисходит в 50% россии. только мегаполисы живут. всё остальное разлагаться. предстаете что от ньюёрка до вашихтона всё находиться в таком состояние и та живут люди.

And why do you say 'crazy'. Just out of curiosity. I am Southern European

Please

@@Victoria-rl4cu He means "crazy" as interesting and wild .

Really, why? 😱

Then I hope, you will not win anything. So you rather do something fruitful for society, not traveling your ass, and polute nature by it.

Beautiful comment.

When I first got to Vorkuta I was freezing in -20 C due to wind, but as soon as I've got windproof clothes, gloves and ski mask, it's quite comfortable in -20 and -30. Only in -35 it starts to get cold. The only notable difference is that it takes much time to get out, but as soon as I am out, I move free enough. Also if I hold mobile phone to e.g. make a photo, hands start freezing in -20. My gloves are heated by electricty, so I can quickly heat hands and hold mobile phone again, but it is annoying

They probably moved to better places

Yes olive in new York my neighbors are Russian this gives me insight into their world

After hair follicles replacement he is now Hairy and Loaded.

Your not aware of his Vorkuta posts from RVF? It's just a weird coincide,

@@AlphaCarinae some of these were only left in 2019, at least that was the case for the apartment he found the diploma in. That's around 2 years only.

@@AlphaCarinae 30 years is one generation, still the blink of an eye on the grand scheme. A town could exist for centuries, and disappear under overgrowth/decay within a human lifetime, which indeed is revealing about fragile and temporary our towns are

@@johnnydynamite6460Thats because modern stuff just isn’t built the same as older stuff. Look at colonial era buildings and old haciendas and churches. These buildings have braved 300 years. And in Mexicos case, earthquakes aswell. Look at Egyptian, Mayan, Teotihuacán, and the various ruins in the Amazon rainforest. These buildings have braved thousands of years of decay, and in man cases, you can still see the simbology and writing of these civilizations on the outside walls.

@@tetraxis3011 Vegaetation doesn't grow slower over old stuff. Every old structure that reached us has been maintained and mayans ruins were overun by vegetations within less than a century, and the only reason they're visible now is because they were hacked out of overgrowth and are maintained now

It is not about nature. It is primarily about wild Russian capitalism and weird money distribution. Why do Moscow teachers have salaries so much higher than in other regions? Are we a single country or what? Moscow gathers taxes and do not let money go outside, so many cities are more or less loosing people

When things are so bad,you know its going to get better,that is my wish for you.Sending warm greetings from Sydney, Australia & Cheers!

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He has but the video seems to have been deleted for some reason.

oli küll

Agree! Beautifully made. So engaging.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…..