Journey to Vorkuta - The Most Depressing Town in Russia
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- In 2020, I visited the town of Vorkuta and some of the nearby urban localities for the first time. I was able to witness absolutely surreal views of the Russian Arctic in form of neglected settlements with dozens of abandoned buildings in the middle of tundra. I decided to create a video in form of a short documentary about this incredible area. Enjoy!
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“He and us are not so different... We are all soldiers, without an army. Betrayed. Forgotten. Abandoned. In Vorkuta, we are ALL brothers!” -Viktor Reznov
To be honest, Alex Mason trusted Reznov a hell of a lot more than he ever did Jason Hudson. I always thought Hudson was a snake.
En Vorkuta de hecho se contruyó un gulag
I agree I am Serbian from Belgrade hoe live in Holland for 35 years and my son wit Dutch huisband all 32 years marid...as sin finish master internationaal en Russian langvige...we had als I war years 90i we are same part firgatton to
Forgatton....
Yeah lol
There is just something strange and beautiful seeing some of these massive concrete building in a field of bright flowers.
I really enjoyed this video! The landscape with the flowers and empty blocks in the Arctic summer is actually pretty. And I appreciate the information 👍👍
Это место для оленей и аборигенов,там ничего красивого,
I loved them wild purple flowers !! They're everywhere! With the abandoned buildings and landscape and these arctic flowers blend together.. is just beautiful aesthetic.
It's like a world of post-apocalyptic video game.
In Finnish "Horsma" also known as "Rentun ruusu" or "The Vagabond's Rose" (Fireweed in English).
@@Itapirkanmaa2 in Russian it is Иван чай, or Ivan's tea.
Dutch: "Wilgenroosje" (Willow rose), latin: Chamaenerion angustifolium
@@Itapirkanmaa2 Rosebay willow herb is called fireweed because of its ability to quickly inhabit areas of previous fire..(.Scotland ).
It's not that aesthetic if u live there u prob weren't even to Russia
Your dedication is admirable. Thank you for sharing this with us.
WHAT dedication. To present a censored view of the town to get more views from gloating Americans?
My heart grieves for your beautiful country.
Such promise, but so much pain.
Imagine Being an Sub-zero City in the middle of Nowhere in Russia just to be Remembered by Gen Z as a Level in a Video Game
Must have been surreal walking around these empty places. I wouldn’t mind going there myself.
For an outstander, yes. For someone who saw the place in its prime, a tragedy
@@jozseftoth9368 не надо говорить о расцвете ,люди оставались зарабатывали деньги,и так проходила жизнь,но деньги не все,лишили природы ,нормально климатического условий,себя и своих детей,или я сейчас живу в окружении красивого пейзажа на берегу моря или в замерзшей тундре полгода,да ещё и с угрозой для себя и детей ,когда бывает чёрная пурга,и нехваткой кислорода.
Wow, thank you for this video.
My great grandfather, born in the US in 1903 immigrated to Lithuania somewhere in 1930s and started a business. In 1945 the Soviets saw in his birth certificate the he was an American citizen and on top of that a business owner and a large property owner. Since you cannot have individual success under communism, they sent him to Vorkuta to work in a coal mine. He came back in 1955 ill and weak, after about two years died of lung cancer.
So he had a colonizer family in te US who didn’t give two shits about black people 🤡 karma will serve every white person and their family for STILL in 2022 suppressing us. Cry me a river
Wonder what your peepaw did in nazi occupied Lithuania to end up in a soviet prison 🤔 oh wel, must be because of his succes, nothing fishy there!
My friend mechanic by profession is born in that town Vorkuta.Little story about how he popped to local police commissariat for driving issue at the times already of independent Lithuania:
He was strictly beaten by independent Lithuania policemen only for that-that he said he's born in Vorkuta...
Strange but sad truth
You talk like mining coal was a death sentence. Like they infected your grandpa with cancer intentionally
there was a revolt of lithuanian prisoners in Vorkuta in 1953 and all of them have been killed at once, maybe police had some feeelings about that.
Yes, it depressing, and a sad commentary, but it also helps us to not forget our history. Thank you for your effort!
Yet Russia seems to have forgotten many parts of history... Invading Ukraine and emberassing themselves how weak their army actually is.
I always thought Russia had a great army untill now, all their power relies on the weak excuse of nuclear bombs... Without nukes Russia would be nothing.
Sad, they could've been a great country our modern times, now totally isolated and repeating the wrongs they made in history but now.
I watched the winter video last night and wondered what it looked like without the snow, thank you!
The vibe of this place is so bittersweet in a mesmerising way. A source of pure inspiration. 🖤🖤🖤🖤
Thanks for the well put together video. It's amazing how huge of an impact coal production was in the not so distant past, and how entire towns and cities that were built around coal went from prosperous to desolate in a relatively short period of time. Same has happened here in the US, and i'm sure other places throughout the world.
Absolutely. Here in the UK it's the same. Also I toured New Zealand back in 2018 and ended up staying in an old mining village pub which had been converted to backpacker accommodation. Sad to see these once prosperous and thriving places fall by the wayside.
Thank you for sharing this. Its in a weird way, very beautiful. I would love to visit. I would have felt very uncomfortable sleeping in the empty buildings though.
You are not along, I find it weirdly mesmerizing and peaceful too.
It would have been nice to stumble upon Bald & Bankrupt: "look at these Soviet buildings!"
go to reddit bro
Excellent stuff, mind blowing to think of what it was like in its prime.
More windows...
These kind of videos of such places makes me feel emotions that I can't describe. It's eternally beautiful and lonely, melancholic at the same time. Thanks for these great videos!
this places are surreal and have some sort of magnetism u can't find anywere else. Great video, thanks
Thank you for showing us this. Must have taken some persistance. Greetings from the Netherlands.
keep adding bro your going to the millions soon or far with your content!
He should change the channel name from starting with “en.” It’s impossible to find in the search box. “Vagrant train hopper” or something would be good so people could randomly come across it.
@@Joe-jg6zz true!
The commentary would be better on camera, the voiceover over lacks the energy of the place.
Thank you for sharing this video!
I really like and appreciate your videos. Your photography work is my favorite part, but the entire effort that you put in to be able to produce these videos is beyond impressive. Your works will endure as beautiful and unique chronicles of places that time forgot and few people will ever see.
I love your productions. Keep up the good work!
Very cool way to experience such a remote place. I enjoyed hearing the history of these towns too!
This is so blick... Love it!
Thank you For this post Keep Safe and well, 👍
You are doing a great job on these videos. Thank you for speaking English so we can follow your adventures!! Maybe do Volgograd one day too.
Nice video, thanks for the content 👍
Absolutely love this video!!! Thank you for filming it!
Wanna have a trip there?
thank you for the trip
I've learned so much about Russian geography from this channel. You rock brother, keep up the good work.
I would love to live in that place. I never had any friends when I was a child and I managed to be happy by myself.
There,s no work now... capitalism so ineffective, that cause situation shown in this vid
I would also! Nobody to bug me. Where get info on real estate in this Vorkuta?
@ Randy Neil,
Those apartment complexes are heated by huge central-heating steam plants. You would
have to live in one of those apartment blocks with neighbors to have heat, electricity and
water. Unless, you were able to find a way to heat your home; you would not be able to
survive the Russian winter in Vorkuta, that lasts nine months of the year.
@@mihailmorozov3456 youre blaming the failed unprofitable city on capitalism? Lmfao
Introverts entered the thread!🙌
I would do too. I am currently in NY, and leaving my apartment seemed like a big feat to me these days. I need need my privacy, which is impossible in NYC.
So glad to be able to see this
who search for this because you randomly remembers reznov ?
Great videos thanks from Australia :)
Impressive video . Well done.
Very informative and graphical - thank you. Your command of the English language is very good.
Oh, I just Love the Fireweed, I have a patch across my driveway. Blooming colors are Awesome,
O This is so
Interesting ☃️
Excellent Video.
5:30 These flowers are called "geitrams" in Norwegian (Chamaenerion angustifolium). They are very common in Norway.
Even in summer, it looks so different to west europe. The plants, your culture.Its so interesting. I live close to the northsea. You summer, is my winter , lool
great videoi
I liked that town, the flowers are so beautiful. Nature is taking over
great video
Thanks !
Incredible, huge ghost towns 😲 Traces of thousands of lives and families left inside…where did all the people go…its so sad 😔
Very interesting Place!
Guter Kanal!👍🏼
La primera vez que oí de Vorkuta fue en Call of Duty Black Ops, y a partir de entonces quedé "fascinado" por esa ciudad y su entorno. Muy buen video, y gracias por tu trabajo.
You have a great channel
Thank you for sharing a small part of History with us. I really wish the world was more peaceful and people from the world could see and visit the beautiful Vast Lands in your country.
Peaceful russia is a oxymoron
The fireweed and other flowers make such an interesting contrast with the desolate, decaying buildings all around them.
Nice video
Your videos are perfection. Hopefully you will bring us yet more exploration videos of Russian cities and landscapes.
generally you have good content, hope you enough income from here for a good 60fps camera. Stay safe, dont go where its dangerous due to enviromental hazards. Hope to see more facets of russia off the beaten path. Kamchatka pls :)
Amazing
This place looks like urban explorer dream come true...
Been wanting to go here for a while now
Start mining again, sell the product as genuine "Gulag boutique coal", westerners love anything labeled as out of the ordinary and hard to get, they will pay a premium price for such a product if it is promoted as "exclusive". This is a serious proposition.
Ha! :D
Don't stop there. Why not "Vorkuta vacations"? Travel and accomodation first-class of course, and you can chose to roleplay a guard or a convict. Taste gulag meals, gulag vodka and try your hand at coal digging.
Yes! ‘Artisan’ coal briquettes, in a tiny wicker picnic style basket 😂
Market it as Green Arctic Coal with some baloney like how it’s around 23% better for the environment than regular coal
You deserve so many more subscribers! Great videos.
I went to Labytnangi by train 3 times, and we went through Vorkuta on that line.
Straight Outta Vorkuta
Amazing video, buildings remind me of Detroit, MI
Mul'da - its interesting to learn new words. That is an excellent diagram and description at 1:20. In English we would refer to that formation as a syncline, and in this particular case a 'normal' fault occurred following its formation. Sorry, as a geologist I couldn't help myself :)
This feels to me like an episode of "abandoned engineering". Nice
Классный канал! Только обнаружила. Супер интересно! Подписалась. Смотрю взахлёб. Спасибо.
super interesting , thanks for sharing ,greetings from Denmark
Such a good project! I’ve been always interested in places like these around the word. Remote areas and “uninhabitable” towns.
Russia is one of them because of the landmass.
Would be cool if there’s a documentary on residents lifestyle?
Teenagers up to young adults lifestyle etc
Good eye, camera, and channel. Too bad it's not August all the time, but then I guess it would drive one crazy with all the leaves light...
my parents lived there in the 60s and 70s
после твоего зимнего видео подумал что в теплое время будет не так интересно. в итоге почти вышло свежее видео на эту тему и я понял что ошибался
Vorkuta is so very modern looking. It has potential if can hold on
Every journey begins with a single step this is step one
Correction. ..this is not a depressing town...this town has the most amazing people , culture ,
You have potential! Great shots and narrating the video. You should start a crowdfunding or something for a better camera and a better microphone
Был в Воркуте и Воргашоре в 2018 году. Впечатления самые мрачные и угнетающие) НО когда возвращаешься из Воргашора в Воркуту, то кажется будто вернулся в цивилизацию) (одно из моих самых богатых на впечатления путешествий)
I just found this channel last night and I find it very interesting. Not a lot of people get to see this part of Russia and it makes me wonder to myself how people can survive living this far north. These towns are in very remote regions of the country and they're very far away from major cities. It must have been very difficult to get food and supplies to this region where the only reliable transportation to this region is by rail. Personally, I really don't think I'd want to live in a place where it's very cold year round. I'm more used to places where the temperatures stay above freezing.
Romantic
Just discovered you this evening & love your videos, very interesting & I've subscribed 👍
You did awesome :)
Is nice town I live here for 30 years
Thank you for sharing. :) ...... The natural scenery in the summer is gorgeous! :)
I am curious about how the buildings were built on top of the permafrost and if any of them have
subsided with the climate change in the Arctic (From the looks of your Vorkuta winter video; one
would be hard-pressed to believe that global warming is a reality!)
I noticed that one of the buildings has been transitioned into a church. Is it Russian Orthodox church?
Please take care of yourself and may God protect you in your travels.
Great video as always , Whats the name of the store at 735 ?
Step 1: Secure the keys
Step 2: Ascend from darkness
Step 3: Rain Fire
Step 4: Unleash the horde
Step 5: Skewer the winged beast
Step 6: Wield a fist of iron
Step 7: Raise hell
Step 8: Freedom
Первый раз Мульду упамянули , спасибо.
1979-1999гг.Воркуа.
Ш.Аяч-Яга, Заполярная
Проходчик.
непомню про какую шахрусказанна глубочайшая но прмойму самое глубокое звлегание вХалмер-Ю
Nice
The most depressing thing about Russia is all the boring cheap buildings.
Bring back some beauty to the country.
These place is not as depressing as I though, in fact, I’d travel to Vorkuta rather than a famous destination
very interesting Video sad to see all the empty building falling down 😍 greetings from Australia
@Thought Criminal what have you been smoking ??
The most depressing town in my life was Detroit,
Property vales were so low the city gave them
to anyone who joined public sector services.
I purchased a former brewery for a vacation
house. For summer visits. Traded it for land
beside the Arkansas River. Because the Detroit
River water was too cold for swimming.
Still winter in Detroit is nowhere near as severe as in Vorkuta.
@@adamkwalczykI bet. It’s probably very white in winter, Detroit is notoriously not
would be nice to see more interviews with local residents. Who operate the schools and hospitals for example.
Just started watching your content top tier league xaxa
The more I see videos of Russia, the more I wonder if the locals were not happier when Sovjet was still ruling the country, since all these cities were maintained and it was not a ghost town like now. Imagine growing up as a kid here… thats no life..
They had no choice. Many were assigned to Vorkuta or other desolate towns after they finished vocational school. They still wanted to live in some big city instead, but had no choice about that. Often these mining towns were abandoned when the mine was depleted of minerals, they were mono functional. There are still villages in western Siberia where people live but it's a tradition for them.
I absolutely love your contents, it is very unique. It would be nice if you could make an insight video about yourself. A bit about your life, what inspired you to start this channel. Difficulties of making these videos, how is to spend nights in the middle of nowhere many times in a tent, and so on…. I would be definitely interested and I am sure I am not the only one. Of course if it’s too personal for you to share I would understand it.
Thank you for your contents.🎉
Keep them coming brother!!! Can you visit the Caucuses?
Is it like a high time to edit the journey to Abkhazia? :)
@@ivantrainsLIVE 🤯🤯🤯
dayz city!!
I was 16 time in sibir always in winter by car, until magadan ...
We need to air-drop some Prozac.
This is probably the most depressing thing I've seen
You should see Tennent Creek in Australia.
Coal Demand is going up in the World , Thank God you have it.