Norilsk

Norilsk () is an industrial closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km east of the Yenisey River and 1,500 km north of Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk is 300 km north of the Arctic Circle and 2,400 km from the North Pole. It has a permanent population of 176,735 as of 2024, and up to 220,000 including temporary inhabitants. It is the second-largest city in the region after Krasnoyarsk. It is the world's northernmost city with more than 180,000 inhabitants, and the second-largest city (after Murmansk) inside the Arctic Circle. N

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Norilsk is a major industrial city in far northern Russia, located about 300 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle with a population of around 177,000 people, making it the world's northernmost city with more than 180,000 inhabitants. The city is significant as a major production center in one of Russia's most remote regions, situated in Krasnoyarsk Krai roughly 1,500 kilometers north of the regional capital.

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Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Norilsk
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Норильск
Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline: Norilsk 03.jpg
Russian inhabited locality.image_caption: Leninsky Prospekt in central Norilsk (June 2016)
Russian inhabited locality.image_flag: Flag of Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai.svg
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa: Coat of arms of Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai.svg
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Krasnoyarsk Krai
Russian inhabited locality.adm_inhabloc_jur: district city of Norilsk
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1: district city of Norilsk
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat: City
Russian inhabited locality.urban_okrug_jur: Norilsk Urban Okrug

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Norilsk (134 832 habitantes, 69° 21' N 88° 12' E) é uma cidade russa situada no Distrito autônomo de Taymyria, mas independente administrativamente deste. A cidade foi fundada em 1935 como um gulag. Pertence ao Krai de Krasnoiarsk.Situa-se a cerca de 240 km ao sul do Círculo Polar Ártico, sendo, entre todas as localidades a sul do Círculo, a segunda em número de habitantes (apenas ultrapassada por Murmansk). É também a cidade de mais de 100 000 habitantes situada mais a norte. Deve o seu crescimento às minas de níquel, das maiores e mais importantes do mundo, e é um centro metalúrgico. É ligada por um caminho de ferro de 80 km ao porto oceânico de Doudinka, junto do rio Ienissei. Em Norilsk extrai-se cerca de 75% de toda a produção mundial de paládio.

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