الآثار المتجمدة لمدينة فوركوتا. الجزء الثالث.

Vorkuta, a coal‑mining town in northeastern European Russia just north of the Arctic Circle, once thrived as part of the Vorkuta Ring—a cluster of satellite towns such as Severny, Tsementnozavodsky, Yur‑Shor, Promyshlenny, Vorgashor, Komsomolsky, Mulda, Zapolyarny, Oktyabrsky, and Sovetsky. Their residents worked in mines and industrial facilities. After the Soviet Union collapsed, many mines were shut down because of accidents and high operating costs, and people moved away, leaving the towns partially or wholly abandoned. In February 2016 the Severnaya (Northern) mine suffered a catastrophic methane‑gas explosion at a depth of about 780 m, killing 36 miners and rescuers. The underground fire was extinguished over 65 days by pumping water, after which the mine was mothballed and dismantled. The video documents the abandoned towns—Komsomolsky, Tsementnozavodsky, Vorgashor, Zapolyarny, Severny, Vorkuta—and the ruined Severnaya mine, offering a haunting look at the region’s post‑industrial decline.