https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/the-arctic-capital-of-the-world?vpid=p09h9b4b Ep3: The unlikely fate of a Soviet mining town 12 MAY 2021|HISTORY From a dark past as a gulag, through the years of the booming mining town of the '70s and '80s, headed into an uncertain future as a fast dying town in modern Russia, Vorkuta was recently the protagonist of a meme where it was declared the Capital of the World, for the most hilarious reasons.
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Life's oscillations go on.
Will be interesting to monitor in the following deacades.