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share Print VORKUTA, Russia In May 1931, a group of 39 prisoners toiling in the Soviet Union s expanding network of forced labor camps set off north from the town of Ukhta to explore the vast coal basin in the Russian Arctic. Joined by a team of geologists and camp guards, the men traveled for weeks through barely navigable waters and icy tundra into the frigid, inhospitable region that would test the limits of the lauded Soviet conquest of the Far North. They were soon joined by more prisoners, hundreds of whom died from sickness, hypothermia, and starvation. But by the spring of 1932, they founded Rudnik, a small coal-mining settlement 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle that would soon grow into the city of Vorkuta. ....
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The new projects will offer 810 jobs. Four companies have inked agreements. The Russian Arctic Zone in the Komi Region includes Vorkuta, Inta, Usinsk and the Ust-Tsilemsky District. According to the national strategy for the development of the Arctic, which was adopted in 2020, the main directions for Komi are diversification of the economy and complex social and economic development of mono-industrial cities Vorkuta and Inta; development of the coal-mining mineral resource centers in the Pechora coal basin for deep processing of coal and coal chemistry; and development of oil and gas mineral resource centers in the Timano-Pechorskaya oil and gas province, including creation of new facilities to process oil and gas. ....