Vorkuta (Russian: Воркута́) is a coal mining town in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic circle in the Pechora coal basin. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Mining is the extraction of valuable Minerals or other geological materials from the earth usually (but not always from an Ore body The classification system of the types of inhabited localities in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared The Komi Republic (Респу́блика Ко́ми Respublika Komi; Коми Республика Komi Respublika) is a Republic and a Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. Its population as of the 2002 census was 84,917. It had its origin in one of the more notorious forced labour camps of the Gulag which was established in 1932. A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are engaged in Penal labor. The Gulag was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. It was at Vorkuta, in 1937, that the Stalinist regime in the 1930s completed the physical liquidation of the Trotskyist Left Opposition. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Left communism and the Left Opposition are distinct Left communism should not be confused with the Trotskyist tendency described below
In 1941 the town and the labor camp system based around it were connected to the rest of the world by a prisoner-built railroad linking Konosha and Kotlas, and the camps of Inta. Kotlas (Котлас is a town in the south of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Northern Dvina Inta (Инта́ is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia. During the Soviet era a " corrective labor camp " was Vorkuta became a city on November 26, 1943. Events 43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian" later "Caesar Augustus" Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It was the largest centre of Gulag camps in European Russia and served as administrative centre for a large number of smaller camps and sub-camps, among them Kotlas, Pechora, and Izhma (modern Sosnogorsk). The Gulag was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union. European Russia refers to the western areas of Russia that lie within Europe, comprising roughly 3960000 km² and spanning across 40% of Europe Pechora (Печо́ра is a Town in the Komi Republic, Russia. Sosnogorsk (Сосного́рск is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia. In 1953 the town witnessed a major uprising by the camp inmates, in the so-called Vorkuta Uprising. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Vorkuta Uprising was a major uprising of the Concentration camp inmates in Vorkuta in July-August 1953 shortly after arrest of Lavrentiy Beria. Like other camp uprisings (such as the Kengir uprising), it was bloodily quelled by the Red Army and the NKVD. The Kengir uprising was a prisoner uprising that took place in the Soviet Prison labor camp Kengir in May and June 1954 The Red Army ( Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия R aboche- K rest'yanskaya K rasnaya A rmiya The NKVD ( НКВД, ru Народный Комиссариат Внутренних Дел ''Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del'') or People's Commissariat Afterwards, in the 1950s, many of the Gulag camps were disbanded. The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive However, it is reported that some in the Vorkuta area continued to operate into the 1980s.
By the early part of the 21st century many of the mines have been closed as problems with high costs of operations have plagued the mine operators. The 21st century is the current century of the Christian Era or Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. At one time during the late 1980s and 1990s there were labor actions in the area by miners who had not been paid for a year. [1].
The city is served by Vorkuta Airport. Vorkuta Airport (Аэропорт Воркута is a small airport in the Komi Republic, Russia located 3 km west of Vorkuta. During the Cold War an Arctic Control Group forward staging base for strategic bombers was located at Vorkuta Sovetskiy. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the A strategic bomber is a heavy type Aircraft designed to drop large amounts of ordnance onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating an enemy's Vorkuta Sovetskiy (also known as Vorkuta East) is a military airfield in the Komi Republic, Russia located 11 km east of Vorkuta. [2]
External links
- Satellite images of the Vorkuta region
- Don't Forget Vorkuta: A Soviet Holocaust
- Contemporary photographs - Vorkuta city
- Historical photographs
- Other photographs
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