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It only looks like a winter wonderland at first glance.
Here, north of the Arctic Circle, at the foothills of the Ural Mountains, snow and ice transform the village of Zementnosavodskij into a ghostly winter landscape.
50 degrees below zero are not uncommon in this part of the country.
More than 5000 people lived in Zementnosavodskij at the end of the 1970s.
They worked in the cement works in the neighboring city of Vorkuta.
In the early 2000s the plant closed, many people became unemployed and eventually emigrated.
The village is now deserted.
The vacant buildings, along with the belongings of their former residents, literally freeze in the extreme freezing temperatures.
80 families stayed.
You now live in an icy ghost village.
