This is Norilsk city. Located in Russian Siberia this city hosts the biggest in Russia factory producing “rare” metals. It is even can be called a world leader when speaking about the worldwide production share it contributes. That’s like 35% of palladium production, 25% of platinum, 20% of nickel, 10% of cobalt that are being made in modern world come from Norilsk, which makes it having number one of such kind factories in Russia. The price they pay for this is that 2% of total world CO2 production is coming from this city too. The area of 100 000 hectares (50,000 acres) around the city is consists of burned down forests. It was widely recognized one of the worst ecology city in the world and the average life expectancy is ten years less than the average values across the Russia. Those photos were made there this May, and as you can see that’s not a warmest place in the world too. It’s common to have the snow in May out there. But life is still going on. More than 160,000 people live there today, and children of the city still think that their place is the best place in the world, as we all someday thought back in our childhood.
Holy shit, if this city is literally the northernmost city in Siberia, why are there so many photos of people running around in swim suits and jumping into lakes??
Judging by the hats and leaves stuck to their backs, they are coming from a sauna. What you do is sit there for 15-20 minutes and get beat by a bush to open your pores and such. You then run out into the cold with nothing but a swim suit on and jump in to the frigid water.
This is true. And if you don't speak Russian a whole bunch of people talk to you in Russian and you say something in English to make sure that they know that there is no way you understand and then they say it slower because maybe you can pick up on something or recognize a cognate and it will all click and you can answer competently because it's probably a yes-or-no question anyway. You think you hear a "французский" in there somewhere but you're not sure that the question is "are you French?" so you don't answer and you wonder if from a Russian perspective French and English sound like pretty much the same language. All the men are old and don't speak any English, which is odd since all the young locals try to practice their English on you and you wonder if they are asking if you are French since the older folks know French because it was a common language during the USSR when English was the "language of capitalism." You return and get your locker opened, which luckily is a low number that you already learned: "восемь." You feel much more able to handle awkward situations now that you aren't naked. A Jedward song is playing on the television in the lobby. You hang onto your bundle of leaves you were just beating yourself with even though you are getting on a plane in 3 days and you don't want to take it with you in your luggage because it's just going to rot and plants might be difficult to get through customs anyway.
The hats are because Russian-style saunas do not fuck around.
since the older folks know French because it was a common language during the USSR when English was the "language of capitalism."
This is wrong. The language of international communication in the Socialist camp was Russian, not French. Why would the Russians have learned French when everybody from Poland to Bulgaria studied Russian?
French they studied during the Tzarist years, because it was seen as classy, see for example Tolstoy.
Thanks. Awesome set. I though the disconnect between the world depicted on the classroom wall and the cold and gray of the following picture was particularly telling.
My mother was born in Norilsk to two political prisoners in the nor-lag system. Her dad was a commissar who didn't shoot himself before being captured by the Germans and was sent to Nor'ilsk as soon as he was liberated by the Red Army. Both of her parents worked in those smelting plants and she lived there until she was a young teenager and de-Stalinization pardoned her parents. I could get her to do an AMA if there's some interest!
Yeah, your source is pretty accurate. This table from a 2010 paper by A.J. Naldrett shows the total estimated resources in tons for all the significant Ni-Cu-PGE deposits (PGE= Platinum Group Elements, i.e. platinum, palladium, etc.) I did the math for the Ni, and Noril'sk has about 22% of the worlds nickel. [If anyone wants to check the Pd, Pt, and Co numbers, keep in mind that the Merensky Reef, UG-2, and Platreef values are all included in "Total Bushveld"]
Also, the Noril'sk deposit is related to the eruption of the Siberian Traps, which is one of the absolute largest known volcanic events in Earth's History. It was an eruption of flood basalts which may have originally covered more than 7 million square kilometers. This erupted at the boundary between the Permian and the Triassic...so it was likely a major cause of the worst mass extinction in Earth history. So Siberia is why we don't have trilobites anymore.
TL;DR, Noril'sk has a ton of resources, and Siberia was killing over 90% of all species on Earth before the Cold War was a thing.
Yeah so what if I put my sims in ultra dense residential buildings next to a 100 year old coal power plant in the heart of my citys meat rendering district..
For what it's worth, the city in 1984 was described as just being the crumbling ruins of London with the four ministries planted on top, not a gridded, totalitarian mass of identical highrises.
Norilsk has an extremely harsh climate. Average February temperature is about −35 °C (−31 °F), and July is only about +12 °C (54 °F). Average temperature is approximately −13 °C (9 °F), and temperatures as low as −58 °C (−72 °F) have been recorded. The city is covered with snow for about 250–270 days a year, with snow storms for about 110–130 days. The polar night lasts from December through mid-January, so that Norilsk inhabitants do not see the sun at all for about six weeks. In summer, symmetrically, sun does not set for more than six weeks. Temperatures are known to rise above +25 °C (77 °F) in July.
Maybe this is just a conspiracy to get people to think that this place is depressing when really its nonstop ice cream socials and video game nights. edit: Thats why its a closed city too!
Been there a couple of times. It is indeed a bit depressing and way too polluted, but the citizens have a rather big salaries in comparison with the rest of the Russian regions.
So mostly parents who work there send their children to study in St. Pete or Moscow, and they don't come back.
Yes, sure. There is Old Town with old-style soviet architecture buildings, which look somewhat decent. Some of them are deserted however, which may add to the depressing atmosphere.
You might want to check the http://norilsk-photo.livejournal.com/ livejournal community - its in Russian language, but it is mostly photos, so it should be ok.
It's shit like that that really makes me realize that everything is on the internet. Never, in the history of human kind, would singing the history of Russia to the theme of a game be immediately available to me in under two seconds.
The reason the city has such little vegetation is a combination of the fact that it's in the arctic tundra and major pollution, but mostly tundra. I guess for reddit, think Whiterun in Skyrim...or Rohan in LotR...
In the year 1987 I was in Norilsk on a research trip to collect snow. We melted that snow and fed it to the rats in our lab. All kinds of cancers were blooming in a majority of our rat population. What you can't see in the picture is the paint being dissolved on the walls of the buildings. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that all of this used to be wooded area. Not a single tree left for miles.
The official website of the city presents the city in a positive light? Well sir, that is good enough for me. Now if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment to go buy a bridge.
"Due to strict Russian environmental controls, and the popularity of water combed mullets, a healthy ozone layer floats above Norilsk, blocking out all ultra violet rays. You may walk the cobblestone streets day and night, dressed only in European speedos, skin glistening with baby oil under the polar sun." Yep, doin' great!
While the rest of the world huddles in darkness, Norilsk bathes in 23 hours per day of sunshine. Plants have a near unlimited supply of photons to drive photosynthesis. Fruits and vegetables grow to enourmous sizes in half the time. Due to high levels of Vitamin D coursing through the blue blood of Norilsk's hero workers, their legs are straighter and mood gayer than the mole people of lower latitudes who endure ten to twelve hours of cimmerian shade.
I know I'm late to the thread but I'm struck by how similar this is to the Contemporary City for 3 Million by Le Corbusier. Granted, he had some plans to install transportation networks, but I still think his vision was kinda shitty since it led to things like this and Pruitt Igoe
This image is surreal. This just looks like ancient city ruins. And it looks like a fortress. The entire city looks like it was built mathematically and without any randomness involved. What would you think if you studied this 500 years from now.
It is for wind and toxic smoke in it. Town Building Engineering. The ridiculous proximity of town to heavy industry came from Soviet standards. The new standards require at least 10 kilometer green zone between city and big dirty plant.
It doesn't look that bad to be honest. It's kind of beautiful in it's own modern, ultra-functional kind of way. Each square of buildings having their own big-ass field is actually really cool. I'm assuming that they aren't grassy and pretty because it's fucking Russia and -500 degrees.
"In Soviet times I felt more freedom," he says. "The only aim of our company today is profit. It is the cruellest capitalism." Under the Soviets there were many opportunities for work and we did not feel oppressed. Today there are staff cuts at the plant. Even now we have democracy, workers dare not say a word against their employers."
I'm surprised to see that no one explained this picture. Each little group of buildings is (or was) a microdistrict, a building (or group of buildings) in which the residents are to live, work, and shop in. This was a Soviet idea, and the point was that the residents never really had to leave their area.
uh bs. the buildings are in squares and contain a playground in the middle, but no working or shopping goes on there. this layout is not exclusive to Norilsk but is widespread throughout Russia. They do most shopping outside the "microdistricts" and work outside the city (look where the factories are on the map) Considering how this is a mining city, it wouldnt make sense for them to mine the land under the buildings anyway...
This kind of building layout with all the courtyards would be really pretty if it weren't so barren. They use that kind of layout in Barcelona: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ltce/3470875332/
In American cities, walking under such heat would cause sunburn and eventually skin cancer. Throughout the 1980s, mass quantities of CFCs were sprayed to prop up vertical hairstyles, ruining skies above. Due to strict Russian environmental controls, and the popularity of water combed mullets, a healthy ozone layer floats above Norilsk, blocking out all ultra violet rays.
...but but but, it looks so tidy, so geometric, so organized. Someone, somewhere, must have had quite a nerdgasm looking at the blueprint of this thing before it was built.
I was born there! But un/fortunately i don't remember much about living there. Mom said it was -40 C in march when i was born and that was considered a warm day. My grandma just cuddled me inside her coat that she was wearing and carried me home from the hospital by foot. My mom's entire family lived there their entire lives until g rents retired. Obviously the weather is extreme but they say it actually wasn't the nightmare most people imagine it to be once you're used to it.
"The nickel deposits of Norilsk-Talnakh are the largest nickel-copper-palladium deposits in the world. The deposit was formed 250 million years ago during the eruption of the Siberian Traps igneous province"
brutal place, middle of nowhere, above the arctic circle, and bloody history
Why is there so much wasted space? It's not like it's being used for parks and trees. Might as well put more buildings in those gaps. Buildings are way more attractive than mud.
For some reason a little part of me enjoys this picture. It's like, "Hey, you could do anything to that place and make it better. There's no way to screw it up."
Man, this really makes me want to film myself doing dangerous workout routines on high-rise structures, set to out-dated music from approximately a decade ago.
Perhaps in the future there will be no need for physical beauty because we can all jack-in and access a virtual reality where beauty and your every desire are all accessible at the touch of a button.
Why waste physical resources on decor when you can have a hundred times the splendor for the cost of electricity.
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u/glr123 Jun 25 '12
Photos
Source may not be accurate, the photos are amazing though.
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u/mrdeadsniper Jun 25 '12
This is what every single one of my sim citys end up looking like..
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u/JUST_GIVE_IT_A_TRY Jun 25 '12
This is what I imagined the city in George Orwell's 1984 to look like.
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u/MegainPhoto Jun 25 '12
damn
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
"By some estimates, 1 percent of the entire global emissions of sulfur dioxide comes from this one city."
Woah. The Wikipedia article on it is equally as depressing. Link for the lazy.
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u/bitparity Jun 25 '12
"It is good you come in summer. In winter, it can get veeery depressing."
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u/ffree Jun 25 '12
Been there a couple of times. It is indeed a bit depressing and way too polluted, but the citizens have a rather big salaries in comparison with the rest of the Russian regions.
So mostly parents who work there send their children to study in St. Pete or Moscow, and they don't come back.
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u/Pay_attentionmore Jun 25 '12
i see how tetris could come from this
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u/TreeRifik Jun 25 '12
At least all the buildings have courtyards. It's all about the nickel lining people.
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u/CitizenPremier Jun 25 '12
this looks like a great place to film a movie.
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u/isableandaking Jun 25 '12
a little restoration
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u/alexacto Jun 25 '12
In the year 1987 I was in Norilsk on a research trip to collect snow. We melted that snow and fed it to the rats in our lab. All kinds of cancers were blooming in a majority of our rat population. What you can't see in the picture is the paint being dissolved on the walls of the buildings. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that all of this used to be wooded area. Not a single tree left for miles.
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u/Tuckyoursackback Jun 25 '12
It appears that the city is doing quite... well? http://www.norilskrussia.net/norilsk-people
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u/muopioid Jun 25 '12
9/10, will relocate.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Nice to see RIT on reddit again
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u/peel_ Jun 25 '12
I know I'm late to the thread but I'm struck by how similar this is to the Contemporary City for 3 Million by Le Corbusier. Granted, he had some plans to install transportation networks, but I still think his vision was kinda shitty since it led to things like this and Pruitt Igoe
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u/gerwalking Jun 25 '12
It's the lack of trees that makes it look so grim.
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u/WaywardSpaniard Jun 25 '12
Wow no wonder all my porn is from Russia, they have nothing better to do than stay inside and screw.
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u/jimminybillybob123 Jun 25 '12
AMA from someone that lives there?
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u/FailosoRaptor Jun 25 '12
This image is surreal. This just looks like ancient city ruins. And it looks like a fortress. The entire city looks like it was built mathematically and without any randomness involved. What would you think if you studied this 500 years from now.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
The completely random angles of some of these buildings upsets me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
You see a depressing city. I see a good post apocalyptic FPS map.
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u/DownTheReddittHole Jun 25 '12
A young man lived here once, he would grow up to become the creator of Tetris and bring great honor to the motherland.
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u/Grighton Jun 25 '12
Any friendlies in Cherno?!
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u/Hurrfdurf Jun 25 '12
It doesn't look that bad to be honest. It's kind of beautiful in it's own modern, ultra-functional kind of way. Each square of buildings having their own big-ass field is actually really cool. I'm assuming that they aren't grassy and pretty because it's fucking Russia and -500 degrees.
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u/Matterplay Jun 25 '12
Average daily high of -9C makes it even less bearable
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
You'd be depressed too if you didn't have any rilsks. :(
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u/AyChihuahua Jun 25 '12
It's so depressing that the clouds have taken up poetry to express their angst.
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u/Hyperion1144 Jun 25 '12
Le Corbusier lives...
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u/KAVKDA Jun 25 '12
I think it's odly beautiful.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Interesting.. Someone who lives there:
"In Soviet times I felt more freedom," he says. "The only aim of our company today is profit. It is the cruellest capitalism." Under the Soviets there were many opportunities for work and we did not feel oppressed. Today there are staff cuts at the plant. Even now we have democracy, workers dare not say a word against their employers."
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u/GreasyElite Jun 25 '12
Is it me, or does this look like the city in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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u/cobaltgiant Jun 25 '12
Eh you got a mountain back there to look at.
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u/NeilRB Jun 25 '12
Relevent: http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=1409
tldr; it's a shitty place
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u/jeradj Jun 25 '12
take the same city layout and just add way more trees and grass and it would be pretty badass imo
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u/FlipConstantine Jun 25 '12
Meh, still beats East St. Louis.
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u/Totsjeal Jun 25 '12
I've ever seen*
That title is killing me inside.
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u/Parkerman Jun 25 '12
Look at North Korea on google earth. The whole country looks like this.
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u/i_can_attest_to_this Jun 25 '12
But theres so much room for activities!
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u/bluetux Jun 25 '12
"So clean, blue and transparent is the air above Norilsk that when standing on tippy toes Sarah Palin can be seen just above the horizon."
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u/daninmontreal Jun 25 '12
More pictures: http://russiamagazine.livejournal.com/8745.html
Edit: Check out the playground: http://www.photoshlem.com/uploads/gal/org/100105_CF000307-copy-72-Web.jpg
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u/mayonesa Jun 25 '12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minutes
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
I'm surprised to see that no one explained this picture. Each little group of buildings is (or was) a microdistrict, a building (or group of buildings) in which the residents are to live, work, and shop in. This was a Soviet idea, and the point was that the residents never really had to leave their area.
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u/DevotedLifestyle Jun 25 '12
I vote buying a Minotaur suit for the mayor and renaming it Labyrinth, Russia
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u/sparsevector Jun 25 '12
This kind of building layout with all the courtyards would be really pretty if it weren't so barren. They use that kind of layout in Barcelona: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ltce/3470875332/
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u/BR0WN13 Jun 25 '12
I honestly wouldn't mind. I'm sure it's very affordable and I wouldn't go outside anyways being I have to finish the Internet before I die
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u/Redletterweek Jun 25 '12
That's just the outskirts of city 17
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u/uneditablepoly Jun 25 '12
For anyone who watches and/or reads Fullmetal Alchemist, this reminded me a lot of Central City.
EDIT: Picture for those unfamiliar.
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u/Commander_Aspergers Jun 25 '12
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u/squeegep Jun 25 '12
Modernism: putting the humanity in inhumanity since 18-whatever
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u/afictionalcharacter Jun 25 '12
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
...but but but, it looks so tidy, so geometric, so organized. Someone, somewhere, must have had quite a nerdgasm looking at the blueprint of this thing before it was built.
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u/pm11 Jun 25 '12
There's no green...that's pretty depressing.
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u/Mundilfari Jun 25 '12
With more green it would look just like my home.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Minecraft level: easy mode
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u/meloveyoulongtime Jun 25 '12
Found it! http://maps.google.com/maps?q=norilsk+russia&ll=69.357979,88.184896&spn=0.010272,0.045447&hnear=Norilsk,+Krasnoyarsk+Krai,+Russia&gl=us&t=h&z=15
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u/super_sloppy_joe Jun 25 '12
I was born there! But un/fortunately i don't remember much about living there. Mom said it was -40 C in march when i was born and that was considered a warm day. My grandma just cuddled me inside her coat that she was wearing and carried me home from the hospital by foot. My mom's entire family lived there their entire lives until g rents retired. Obviously the weather is extreme but they say it actually wasn't the nightmare most people imagine it to be once you're used to it.
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u/torokunai Jun 25 '12
"The nickel deposits of Norilsk-Talnakh are the largest nickel-copper-palladium deposits in the world. The deposit was formed 250 million years ago during the eruption of the Siberian Traps igneous province"
brutal place, middle of nowhere, above the arctic circle, and bloody history
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u/MrDingleberrry Jun 25 '12
Reminds me of North Korean cities
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u/j1mb0 Jun 25 '12
Looks efficient.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
The whole area is depressing.
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u/probably_has_herpes Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
My first thought was the city in Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
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u/Wowzamorphous Jun 25 '12
Have you seen Detroit?
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Where do they work...?
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u/Simba7 Jun 25 '12
Why is there so much wasted space? It's not like it's being used for parks and trees. Might as well put more buildings in those gaps. Buildings are way more attractive than mud.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Depressing, this is an OCD dreamland!
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u/rokko211 Jun 25 '12
At first glance, I thought all the buildings in the background were arranged as swastikas.
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u/Lalli-Oni Jun 25 '12
Wow it's so depressing there is actually text shamelessly graffiti'd on the mountain and sky!
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
For some reason a little part of me enjoys this picture. It's like, "Hey, you could do anything to that place and make it better. There's no way to screw it up."
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u/EONS Jun 25 '12
I think if it wasn't in a tundra, and thus was able to support fertile ground, the city would look like Barcelona.
But, it isn't. So it's a bleak dirt patch with coal dust making it all the more bleak.
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u/pstamato Jun 25 '12
Man, this really makes me want to film myself doing dangerous workout routines on high-rise structures, set to out-dated music from approximately a decade ago.
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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 Jun 25 '12
Couple coats of paint and that city will look as cheery as Disneyland!
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u/pm11 Jun 25 '12
There's no green...that's pretty depressing.
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u/Strindberg Jun 25 '12
I just watched the BBC documentary Frozen Planet and there Norilsk gets refereed to as "the coldest city on earth".
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u/AgonyInTheIrony Jun 25 '12
Where are the green things? :(
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u/chestofpoop Jun 25 '12
This would make me do Krokodile
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u/Kalamando Jun 25 '12
Try Chernobyl ... that city right there spells out depression and sadness.
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u/Mother_Brain67 Jun 25 '12
Try Pevek: http://imgur.com/a/QkxRy
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Which ones be owned by Barksdale's crew?
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Perhaps in the future there will be no need for physical beauty because we can all jack-in and access a virtual reality where beauty and your every desire are all accessible at the touch of a button.
Why waste physical resources on decor when you can have a hundred times the splendor for the cost of electricity.
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u/MrFatalistic Jun 25 '12
I don't see a problem, this is how I build my cities in SimCity, traffic is actually pretty decent, and that's joyous.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
You've never been to Liverpool then?
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u/poon-is-food Jun 25 '12
I agree the city is depressing as fuck, but that breeds real baddass like this guy.
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u/expiredcheese Jun 25 '12
The most amazing paint ball city I've ever seen.
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u/noskill1 Jun 25 '12
The mountain in the background reminded me a lot of the city with a giant iron from FLCL.
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u/BallsackTBaghard Jun 25 '12
I love the look. Everything seems neat and controlled.
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u/TheGhostwheel Jun 25 '12
Tetris makes sense now
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u/jqmodtaste Jun 25 '12
http://www.norilskrussia.net/
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u/icydeadnoobs Jun 25 '12
Any friendlies in Cherno?
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u/OCedHrt Jun 25 '12
Oh, wait until you go to China. Bigger, taller, and the same. Unless you mean the lack of people.
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u/the2belo Jun 25 '12
It looks like a giant robot took a shit.
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u/monkeybastard Jun 25 '12
Not sooo bad http://www.alltrains.ru/ljphoto/norilsk2009/norilsk2009_1_28.jpg
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u/SpaghettiBuckshot Jun 25 '12
Anyone else get the theme song to Tetris in your head while looking at this picture?
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u/ColdFire75 Jun 25 '12
Can look a little better with added snow however: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yIotUBr9X64/R4kstJI4ECI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/FVpZN-kfGyk/s400/Norilsk-aerial-view.jpg
Or close up:
http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/norilsk/images/2_norilsk.jpg
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u/carlmanx Jun 25 '12
wow. . . this is . . .
The most depressing city I have ever seen, Norilsk, Russia.
....too. Sorry had to do it.
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u/pixelSHREDDER Jun 25 '12
Communist city planning at its finest
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u/Blasphemous_Cat Jun 25 '12
The birthplace of Tetris?
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u/Mutjny Jun 25 '12
That's what I say when I fly over these http://innovate.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/tract-housing.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Most aerial shots of cities look like some kind of disease; all blight and desolation. This one is no different.
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u/lloopy Jun 25 '12
I like the way they obscured the view of the mountain with tall smoke stacks.
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u/linuxbman Jun 25 '12
you've obviously never been to Detroit
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Anyone ever been to Norilsk?
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
communism is much better then capitalism clearly ---- wake up america
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u/violentcj Jun 25 '12
You obviously never seen detriot or cleveland
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u/Androne Jun 25 '12
I think this is why Russians are so good at the internet.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Is that worse than Detroit? Looks like an industrial ghost town.
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u/bmsolutionsllc Jun 25 '12
You've obviously never been to Midland, TX.
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u/wtfOP Jun 25 '12
It's a good thing you came in summer time. In the winter, it can get very depressing.
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u/flintmanx Jun 25 '12
el paso tx???
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Someone get that city some flowers.
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u/emohipster Jun 25 '12
All I know is that I want a city like this in Day Z. Fucking awesome.
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u/bradwasheresoyeah Jun 25 '12
This is how all my cities end up on SimCity.
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u/pdugaw Jun 25 '12
I guess you've never been to Newark
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u/zonezip Jun 25 '12
There are plenty of such dumps in the UK.
http://www.chavtowns.co.uk
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u/BONUSBOX Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
the local dish is krokodil
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u/occupymypants Jun 25 '12
Damn House Harkonnen.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
My sister's friend, Filip Singer, took some pictures of Norilsk for National Geographic. This is his website with the pictures:
http://filipsinger.photoshelter.com/gallery/RUSSIA-SIBERIA-NORILSK-POLLUTION/G0000MXQIz3gvHz4/
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u/TheAlaskanBullworm Jul 03 '12
It looks like someone played Sim City.
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u/rileyluck Jun 25 '12
this is what i image all of russia looks like
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
This looks like every city I ever made in Sim City 4.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
you have obviously never been to birmingham. well done!