Vorkuta
,
Russia
, Asia
Year
1931
latitude: 67° 30'
longitude: 64° 1'
Period
Initiator(s)
Planning organization
Nationality initiator(s)
Designer(s) / Architect(s)
Design organization
Inhabitants
69,008 (2010)
Target population
Town website
http://www.vorcuta.ru/
Town related links
Literature
type of New Town:
> scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
> client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
> policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
source: http://mapru.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=620
The settlement was founded as a system of labor camps (Gulag) servicing the mines. Vorkuta became a city in 1943. Currently Vorkuta is a shrinking town.
source:
2008 - 2025
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