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Vorkuta and its satellite towns are among the most impressive places in Russia. It is the easternmost city in Europe built in permafrost conditions, where summer lasts only a month a year. The urban agglomeration, which once numbered hundreds of thousands of people, was built by the hands of prisoners and is located just two hundred kilometers from the Arctic Ocean. Even today, after a mass exodus from Vorkuta and its surrounding towns, it is still the third most populous city in the Komi Republic. The pictures from there are frightening and surprising: abandoned and dilapidated houses, broken roads, winter that lasts 10 months a year. But for some reason, people continue to live there. They are offended and angry when their native lands are called abandoned and dying, and they do not want and cannot live anywhere else but here - in places that seem simply not suitable for life. During the fat years of coal mining in the Pechora basin there were almost two dozen mines. Settlements grew up next to them, creating a huge invisible ring around the city, connected by roads and railways, and called Vorkuta. The film was created by the OstWest TV channel ****************** The opinions of the authors and heroes of the programs may not coincide with the opinion of the editors.