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In minus 50 degrees: a rare glimpse into the Russian ghost town buried under snow
Breathtaking photos of a frozen suburb, near the easternmost and coldest Russian town in Europe, which has been abandoned in the last decade due to extreme temperatures in the area reaching minus 50 degrees in winter.
The whole town was buried under a blanket of snow as huge glaciers covered the floors and furniture of the abandoned buildings
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Until a decade ago the last inhabitants of the suburb 17 km from the Russian town of Vorkota still tried to survive the icy winters in the area that reached extreme temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celsius, but rising unemployment forced recent families to move to new, warmer lives. In 2013 the town was finally abandoned and nature, it seems, took over again, and mesmerizing images of the ghost town show how the entire city was buried under a blanket of snow.
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The photos, taken in the Semantanozabodsky region of Russia, give a glimpse into a post-apocalyptic world created after a massive freeze, with no one left alive to clear the snow.
The photos show abandoned buildings all covered in heavy snow, huge glaciers formed in windows, rooms and stairwells and a fleet of over 100 trucks buried under a thick layer of snow.
In the photos you can see buildings painted in bright colors and decorated with illustrations designed to lift the mood of the residents who suffered from depression due to the lack of work and the long, white and frozen winters in the area.
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Verkota is known as the easternmost and coldest city in Europe, with short and cool summers and particularly cold and snowy winters.
On average, only in about 70 days do the temperatures in the area rise above zero degrees and the winter lasts about 8 months.
The town was built by prisoners during Stalin's rule, after ordering the establishment of a cruel prison camp (Gulag).
Verkota strengthened the region's economy by becoming a coal mining town, but even after the closure of the Gulag, the city continued to serve as a place of exile until the 1980s.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the city continued to grow rapidly, and in 1992 it reached about 116,000 inhabitants.
Since then it has halved.
Today its estimated population stands at 70,548 residents.
In 2009, most of Vercotta's cinemas, theaters and cultural centers closed, the Guardian reported.
Migration from the area has turned some localities into ghost towns exposed to extreme weather damage.
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