I Spent 24 Hours In A Ghost Town In Russia (Vorkuta)

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Vorkuta was founded in 1932 in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, not far from the frosty winds of the Arctic Ocean. Its foundation followed the discovery of vast coal fields in the area.
The Government of the USSR decided that this was the best place to send criminals and prisoners of the new GULAG system that was established a few years prior.
Even after the dismantling of the Vorkutlag, the population continued to grow due to the attractive salaries and job prospects of working in the coal mines. In 1989, just before the collapse of the USSR, Vorkuta reached an all-time population of 118,000 people.
Following the collapse of the Soviet empire, many mines were privatised, and along with the significant decline of the coal industry, Vorkuta started losing more and more residents who now see no reason to continue living in a place that is simply not made for human life.
Nowadays, Vorkuta’s population is around half of what it used to be 30 years ago. Walking around town, it is not difficult to stumble into ruins and abandoned buildings which are left as a statement to a past that was once glorious, but that is now, indeed, PAST.
In my quest to set foot in every single federal subject in Russia, the Komi Republic was number 33! Don't forget to follow me on Instagram for live updates @davelegenda 📷
Also if you can subscribe and please like this video that would help very much CHEERS THANK YOU :D
Here's where I stand as of now:
Moscow ✔️
Moscow Oblast' ✔️
Saint Petersburg ✔️
Leningradskaya Oblast' ✔️
Vladimirskaya Oblast' ✔️
Yaroslavskaya Oblast' ✔️
Ivanovskaya Oblast' ✔️
Krasnodarskij Kraj ✔️
Tulskaya Oblast' ✔️
Tatarstan Republic ✔️
Tverskaya Oblast' ✔️
Nizhegorodskaya Oblast' ✔️
Kaluzhskaya Oblast' ✔️
Murmanskaya Oblast' ✔️
Smolenskaya Oblast' ✔️
Ryazanskaya Oblast' ✔️
Astrakhanskaya Oblast' ✔️
Kalmykia Republic ✔️
Volgogradskaya Oblast' ✔️
Bryanskaya Oblast' ✔️
Udmurtia Rebublic ✔️
Yekaterinburgskaya Oblast' ✔️
Tyumenskaya Oblast' ✔️
Karelia Republic ✔️
North Ossetia-Alania Republic ✔️
Rostov Oblast' ✔️
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug ✔️
Republic of Crimea ✔️
Sevastopol ✔️
Permskij Kraj ✔️
Chelyabinsk Oblast' ✔️
Kirov Oblast' ✔️
Komi Republic ✔️
Which means I'm at 33/85. Still 52 to go! Hopefully a lifetime will be enough ⚠️
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@DaveLegenda 2 года назад

This is the second part of my mini-doc series that started with "A Day In Russia's Most Depressing Town In Russia | Vorkuta" - @ Subscribe if you want to come to Vorkuta this winter (-50 degrees await us, yuppie). I'm on Instagram as @davelegenda

@kimotheking95 2 года назад

Yes Finally Mio Amiicooo!! ❤️👍🏼

@fantaring705 2 года назад

Just discovered your channel man, good good stuff. Love from the land down under

@karlhelgedahl9223 2 года назад

Just found your channel. It will have 100 000 subs in no time with this content. Great work.

@arrow2589 2 года назад

Damn dude your going back in the winter???

@RaiderA1711 2 года назад

You speak very well english and russian .. for a italian man..

@psy-lion 2 года назад

An Italian and Azeri meets in Vorkuta and speaks in Russian. Now how random is that?

@MWENDA-vv5im 2 года назад

Azerbaijan was part of the USSR. This Azeri is probably a Russian national. Unfortunately, Russian is no longer a compulsory language in Azerbaijan but the the older generation can understand the language.

@ZombieRockful 2 года назад

When Internet became real

@marcogamezz8594 Год назад

Nothing beats the Zambian in Yakutsk

@grubhubdad2.079 Год назад

Me as an Italian: its my time to Shine

@zackjohnson7860 Год назад

I wouldn't know, but it seems very random LOL.

@Flakyou001 2 года назад

I was born there. Until the age of 12, I was very sick. The chief doctor of the children's polyclinic told my mother: "If you want to save the child, take him to a different climate." There (in the Far East) I lived for 2 years. And then I came back. I left Vorkuta because it happened. I dream of this city. And you know ... The North won't let go. Thank you for the video!

@arrow2589 2 года назад

Do you live there now?

@mossycryptid 2 года назад

Did you ever return to Vorkuta?

@Flakyou001 2 года назад

@@mossycryptid Yes. For a couple of months on business

@Bezimienny97 2 года назад

In 1953 in Vorkuta there was a revolt of prisoners in the camps. They took control of the camps and then tried to get to Finland, but were caught by the army and executed. That may have been the fate of those you saw there who died in 1953.

@mollywalker3309 2 года назад

I was so afraid it was something awful.

@herricanzea3171 Год назад

Didn't Reznov make it on the train?

@badi4336 Год назад

@@herricanzea3171 yes, they use this story in call of duty black ops

@edvinas4750 2 года назад

Most of Lithuanian prisoners in Vorkuta were politicial prisoners

@alexreasa8815 2 года назад

More than a half of all prisoners in Gulag system were political prisoners. Truly an awful system

@СергейГражданский Год назад

@@alexreasa8815 poor nazis.

@arrow2589 2 года назад

This is such a great insight into the town. The talks you have with the residents really make the videos so interesting. Talking with miners who escaped death by a day or buying pizza with a local teen are such great moments. They really bring the video and the town to life. I'm really enjoying these videos, please keep them coming!

@Flakyou001 2 года назад

Vorkuta... I lived there for 25 years... Home...

@Cory-G-chan 2 года назад

Wow, good job documenting parts around Vorkuta! I was very surprised that you would be in sneakers in a part of the world like this. I think the next time you may have some more robust footware. 😁

@DaveLegenda 2 года назад

Yeah, maybe...or maybe not ;)

@mossycryptid 2 года назад

@@DaveLegenda fashion over feet 👍

@ramonp.2085 2 года назад

First I wanted to say that you really did a great job with your trip and with producing these videos. I've already seen comments regarding the revolt in 1953. I remembered that I've read something about it and looked it up. I was especially interested when you saw the german monument, because I'm from germany. And I really found the german article I read a long time ago. It turned out that Vorkuta is kind of "famous" in germany. Not particular but because it's the best documented gulag of them all. Especially the revolt incident in 1953, following Stalins death. Where all these people lost their lifes. In that time germany was divided in east and west. Where the west (BRD) resembled more or less the germany we have today and the east (DDR) being under the controle of the Soviet Union. Nearly all anti communist germans from east germany were brought to Vorkuta as political prisoners. It was a horrible thing to happen, but also led to the fact that these incidents are so well documented. At least for a gulag. Because some germans survived and could bring the information of these gulags and what happened there back to germany, outside the controle of the soviet union or the later following russian government. The last survivor I found, was a guy named Horst Schüler who died in his hometown Hamburg here in germany, nearly 3 years ago. He lived on to become 94 years old after serving 7 years in Vorkuta as a political prisoner. He got released in 1955 after living in what was basically a one and a half year long revolt inside the mines and the prison itself. The article about him is called "the forgotten massacre of Vorkuta" and I think that alone says everything.

@MickeyMishra Год назад

Okay German bro! We need more info on this. Please post more with links and stuff so we can get a bigger picture. Not much is known from that time period that is out in the real world for people to know if you know what I mean. People like to be pretty tight lipped about that time. Drop the Knowledge grenades dude. Those people who lived through this need to be never forgotten.

@DanielMorenoTV Год назад

Thank you for the info man

@kellydiote5158 2 года назад

Your work is a masterpiece, Dave. Congrats. I am following each one of your videos with great interest. You are also living my dream of discovering those gloomy and abandoned places of Northern Russia. I live through your vlogs. Please continue interviewing Russians that you come across. Your English and Russian skills are also impressive, not to mention your humour, sarcasm and honesty. You became like a friend for me. You deserve much more followers and I admire that you continue vlogging for your small community of viewers. Please keep going. Make us discover Oymyakon, Norilsk, Kamtchatka, Magadan, Tchita, and more...

@mossycryptid 2 года назад

I really hope he does one on Oymyakon! I saw a documentary about somewhere that I think is the same place you mentioned, it was in a series on the world's hardest ways to school...

@kellydiote5158 2 года назад

@@mossycryptid omg I watched it too!

@TheCrowan 2 года назад

I've been very interested in Vorkuta for years, but I've never found a mini documentary about it like yours. Thank you for the experience! I would love to see more remote towns in Russia.

@UhOhStinky. 2 года назад

Hey I just was a say what a great video. I watched both parts and I enjoyed understanding the culture of the city there and what’s left, but mostly I’m impressed by your bravery and adventurism. I live in a very comfortable cosmopolitan city in Asia all my life and your video is so refreshing. I’ll never get a chance to visit that part of the world and thanks to you I can see it and even feel it. Kudos! I’ve sub and liked ☺️

@AndyLikeARollingStone 2 года назад

Even me, a person who lives in Russia, can haldly believe what I just saw.

@mossycryptid 2 года назад

I think i would live there for a month or so, to really experience the history of the place. It seems like you could learn a lot from it

@MickeyMishra Год назад

From what I gather? This Russian dude did not feel safe in Russia. That tells you a lot about the place.

@barasra8847 2 года назад

you must be brave to visit those lonely villages, surprised taxis are still in there! Nice video, thanks 👍

@gari-u1v 2 года назад

So happy to see this second part is out! As always, thank you for sharing this fantastic content with us :)

@blimolhm2790 2 года назад

Намки работал так много для его детей, а теперь они в университете! Я не могу представить как трудно это было, под землю за 15 года

@DaveLegenda 2 года назад

Namik is my favourite person ever

@lecabramacabra9917 2 года назад

I binge watched all your videos while working. Since i'm doing home office i have a chance. Great videos friend. I can definetely say you're now in my top 3 russian vloggers. 1st one ofcourse is bald and bankrupt.

@geedus71 2 года назад

Literally the last place on earth you'd want to live

@EternityJMan Год назад

“Lots of interesting people”? You barely met any! 🤥😜 Cool to see these, derelict places. A piece of a not so inviting, yet important part of history!

@henkjanvanraikonnen5073 2 года назад

Great video Davide. I want to make the same trip, but together with my girlfriend and good friend. I think I would be scarred to do this trip on my own. Were you really anxious during the day in abandoned Vorkuta? In the evening and dark it seems very scary to me

@DaveLegenda 2 года назад

No, I'm totally at ease walking around abandoned buildings in the middle of the tundra. Totally! Yeah!

@kellydiote5158 2 года назад

@@DaveLegenda Great sarcasm, Dave! haha

@pauleedeehimself8489 Год назад

The horrible black smoke and black snow everywhere... what a terrible, horrible place

@ReMixRoudy 2 года назад

Very interessing, very depressing.

@evildesiresss2879 2 года назад

Sei un grande Davide, grazie dei bellissimi video ❤️

@remusserban5157 2 года назад

How are you Italian and speak English but especially Russian so good ?! Can you explain? I just founded your channel and I like it!

@gmgaster 2 года назад

Scoperto per caso, gran canale! Mi guarderò gli altri video con calma e curiosità. Grazie!

@cheesaineko 2 года назад

I am glad I discovered this channel just now! thank you💙 you have a new subscriber! 🥰👏

@mbz25 2 года назад

Damn 15 years in the mines just for a measly £200 a month.

@burakesener2513 Год назад

8 euro for taxi going to fucking nowhere land and dave says: taxi driver stole from me. ok bro well done!

@HistoryHustle 2 года назад

Very interesting format you have here. It does borrow on B&B but with it's own twist: more visually appealing and also critical to situations. Develop your own style and keep continuing this. It's great you speak Russian and take the effort to talk to people and show us these remote places many haven't even heard of.

@bibleburner Год назад

Bald and Bankrupt is a sex predator.

@dieponyreiter 2 года назад

Really well done and love the story of the people living there….. can’t imagine living in such a tough place….

@RandomDave 2 года назад

Great vid 👍

@cain_chamomille 2 года назад

Hi. I stumbled upon this vid on Recommendation, and as a Southeast Asia fellow, I admit that the life there is dull yet interesting. Full of stories unknown to me. Thank you for the video.

@tj90-m8f 2 года назад

Fantastic video 👍 Btw thanks for the English subtitles

@bardloe5714 2 года назад

Damn ive nevet been this early. Nice video Dave!! Darn u must be freezing to death!

@josephjones1975 2 года назад

great videos, so glad i found this channel. a lot like bald and bankrupt but without the arrogance

@arrow2589 2 года назад

Bald and bankrupt needs to be canceled. He is a a disgusting man with a dark background. Just Google his legal name Benjamin Rich Swift and it comes right up.

@pierrot31511 Год назад

Very nice video and channel. Thank you very much !

@theodorenovak3363 Год назад

This was very touching yet sad. I am 100% of Lithuanian descent. I'm only one nationality .. God rest their souls

@markmcay483 2 года назад

I love your channel …. You are as good as bald and bankrupt…. Keep up the great work.

@differentone_p 2 года назад

Видя эти кресты, я вспоминаю об ужасах этих жутких лагерей, многочисленно описаных в различных книгах о тех временах. Столько людей...😢 Они просто были убиты. А перед этим заключены, грубо перевезены, были замучены до смерти. Как же жаль... Желаю такой же судьбы всем тем, кто поддерживал этот режим.

@uncleho3085 2 года назад

Fascists and revisionists deserve gulag. Gulag is just a prison system and not a torture camp. When the red army liberated Auschwitz they didn't offer the Nazi jobs in their space agencies or offer them asylum. They were sent to Gulags.

@Roberto9696-q7s 2 года назад

You deserve way more subscribers. This is very interesting content and very well put together. Good job!

@CanariasCanariass 2 года назад

Thank you for this video!!

@moilami1 2 года назад

Epic place. I so very much want to photograph there.

@abdullah.j2565 Год назад

Thank you for your efforts. Quality content

@stellerstarfield3875 2 года назад

Very cool experience love the videos keep it up!!!

@PoorCoyotee 2 года назад

1 ruble to leagally own an apartment just makes me think of bying all the empty ones for memes, just so I could say I own a mining city 🤔

@CallMeConnorYT 2 года назад

found out about your channel 2 days ago,your videos are great from England

@aalolooo 2 года назад

thanks for video. Incredible video.

@bradcumbers 2 года назад

Loved this! Looking forward to the next one.

@henkjanvanraikonnen5073 2 года назад

The same here. I love Davide his videos. Especially those abandon places

@cossack_tv9487 2 года назад

Che bello l'accento italo-russo Davide 😂

@rustyshackelford934 Год назад

Nothing like getting robbed by an Eastern European cab driver

@soudyg9080 2 года назад

Class vlog mate

@cosma_mamil9332 2 года назад

Zio pera bro che contenuti. Keep going

@nicatmkylv Год назад

azərbaycanlılar hər yerdə, salam olsun Namiq dayıya

@GouganeBarra-u4t День назад

One ruble for one of those properties ? That would be day light robbery !

@tomasmalin 2 года назад

That coal-covered snow, just wow.

@tomislavtodorovic8020 Год назад

A Serb watching azerbejani and italian guy going around in Vorkuta and speaking russian what a strange world

@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 2 года назад

Subscribed. I like the content of your videos.

@lukesmichalski6607 2 года назад

Great video!

@L.K.S.R. Год назад

Always wanted to visit Vorkuta after plying Call of duty black ops. This is the next best thing

@bighasan9399 2 года назад

Oh, so interesting videos, thank you! I hould subscribe on your channel)) Спасибо большое за интересные видео!)

@vicmichele2105 2 года назад

Great info..

@RobbiFinan Год назад

It only took 2 vids of yours vorkuta adventure to make me subscribe

@Wizardofwords-g7v 2 года назад

Thank you so much for a great two part video series. You're right, it's a scary town but awesome. Very enjoyable to watch from the comfort of my home in sunny South Africa! I subscribed and hope you will make many more of these videos. I'm going to watch the Perm one now. Greetings from South Africa! 🌍🌞

@octavia7408 2 года назад

This is like a perfect place to go during a zombie pandemic, no people. lol

@kxkxsjk2 Год назад

Yeah but the problem is that you won't be able to get there since there is no roads to this city from other cities. The only ways are plane or a train

@WestfaelischerJung Год назад

for those who care there was an uprising in 1953 where the guards opened fire on the inmates! thats why so many died in that year!

@Denchik_vzm Год назад

вы очень хорошо говорите по-русски. Вы жили в России наверное какое-то время?

@blimolhm2790 2 года назад

oh Dave, you could be preparing Italian food for the Russians, I'm sure they would love it!! Everyone knows that Italian food is the best!

@georgei2395 2 года назад

Dave is a cross between Bald and Borat. Keep the videos coming!

@arrow2589 2 года назад

Bald and bankrupt needs to be canceled. He is a a disgusting man with a dark background. Just Google his legal name Benjamin Rich Swift and it comes right up.

@posentarc 2 года назад

@@arrow2589 so what wrong he did? Wtf you are even talking about?

@elroher9277 2 года назад

Un italiano in Russia che parla russo e inglese in una città dimenticata da dio. What a time to be alive

@captainhook7154 2 года назад

For me as a Lithuanian, it was interesting to see this video. Thank you.

@אביבמוסקוביץ-ו4ש 2 года назад

Wow another great video, thesalukie's army is here

@sugasheeze 2 года назад

Wow this shit is crazy. Glad to end up here from some random Reddit thread.

@GreekHouseEffect 2 года назад

good channel, mate

@thomasricke1150 2 года назад

Really like your videos! Of course I follow Ben Rich aka Bald and bankrupt as he's fantastic but you are doing it in a similar great style! Thx and greetings from Germany

@arrow2589 2 года назад

Bald and bankrupt needs to be canceled. He is a a disgusting man with a dark background. Just Google his legal name Benjamin Rich Swift and it comes right up.

@arrow2589 2 года назад

Like you know he is a p edo and r apist right?

@thomasricke1150 2 года назад

@@arrow2589 ehmm no I didn't.... That's tough. Will have a read

@arrow2589 2 года назад

@@thomasricke1150 I only found out last week. Reading what he himself posted online and has done literally made me nauseous. I was such a big fan, ruined my whole week. There is a really good subreddit but you can also find the article from the news on the whole r ape thing.

@thomasricke1150 2 года назад

@@arrow2589 just found this subreddit... Damn it. Too many sources to say there is nothing with it. Man :(

@nathangallegos9304 Год назад

In Vorkuta, WE ARE ALL BROTHERS

@andreikobyakov7109 2 года назад

As always great content, Keep it up.

@eugenesoch 2 года назад

Wow! I have shivers now. I am from Lithuania. Snit ton of people died there, most political prisoners.

@abbeystump 2 года назад

Great info hope to visit myself.

@jameskirk9996 2 года назад

Thank you Davide. I find Russia a fascinating place. It was not looked upon as an "American" place to go or study, when I grew up in the 1960's. It was, in fact closed to most of us, except those people that went there to study how to plant Communism here. You're brave and insightful.

@elizabeth-yu9lm 2 года назад

good job Dave It was a very interesting video. If you still have any videos taken there please post. 🙏 You do this job very well. There are no such interesting and well-watched videos about this part of the world on RU-vid. I am very happy to have found you. good luck 👍👍

@kontrabasso79 2 года назад

what sort of "italian" name is Dave?

@rono3223 2 года назад

It's like a weird dream...the place is absolutely depressing.

@chilledbongo 2 года назад

Wish you'd slow the camera on the old buildings

@tanjiro9589 2 года назад

You're telling the dark history of the soviet union that are mostly forgotten. I've really learned a lot from your videos. Thanks

@myoutuber77 7 месяцев назад

"..."there was no need for people to keep living..." lol

@kostadinkostadinov923 2 года назад

I love places like this, and that is one pretty boy in this GTA town.

@leonardodavinci6625 2 года назад

Subscribed

@Shortyshrew 2 года назад

what a depressing life it would be living here

@DravenMercer 2 года назад

I wonder if the cemetery is largely from the Prisoner uprising of '53 where 42 were killed on the spot, 135 wounded and deprived of medical help, died later.

@TeamPercyJackson 2 года назад

where can you get that hoodie you were wearing in the previous video? in the cafe with Stepan

@Eirik_Bloodaxe Год назад

My question is, if the entire area leaves. Do the monuments stay? Do they matter if no one is there to look at them and remember?

@dennisnielsen8030 9 месяцев назад

There is not really a good reason to remove them.. Waste of money..

@hakke2485 2 года назад

I just want to go there bros, it looks so nice...

@anonymouse7074 2 года назад

Wouldn't want to be stranded there at night!

@yb8080 2 года назад

Safer than being stranded in any American city at night.

@arrow2589 2 года назад

@@yb8080 as an American I agree.

@VictorWeikum 2 года назад

Come to Syktyvkar again, we'll show you the city, and you'll visit the great ethnic museum

@Beatbassbusta Год назад

looks like apocalypse

@MickeyMishra Год назад

You can buy an apartment for just $1.00? FOR REAL? If that's true? This would make a good place to turn these buildings into some cool Electric GO Kart raceways! You could buy the whole building, and make it into some Go Kart park indoors. Seems like the buildings are big enough for it. Also, If the locals just want to steal stuff to get drunk? Then maybe just axe that out and have them all work for a Brewery you install and have them drink up some of the profits. Problem of stealing mostly solved. Also, I find it weird that they don't have more snow machines and things like that built there. If you want to keep young men occupied? You have to give them something to do. Seems weird that a town like that does not have more fun in the ice and such. I get Russians are pessimistic. But there has to be something there that is valuable to the rest of Russia if not the world besides coal? All I see is opportunity.

@michaelbasgall8924 2 года назад

it's fascinating. I'd love to have an paintball war in here, if I could tolerate the cold.

@pripyat.sadboi8092 2 года назад

i have a feeling that this guy is gonna be successful like 👨🏻‍🦲📉. i hope my comment ages well. lol

@Kristalya 2 года назад

I need that electronic song name in the very beginning! ⚡

@paticusmaximus12 2 года назад

8:27 hahaha total Bald moment...

@neilfoster9508 2 года назад

Definitely a place for Ben to visit, and of course check out all the hot Babushkas!

@arrow2589 2 года назад

Bald and bankrupt needs to be canceled. He is a a disgusting man with a dark background. Just Google his legal name Benjamin Rich Swift and it comes right up.