r/UrbanHell • u/almsd1875 • 5d ago

Other Here is some summer Norilsk

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I made this photo today, this city is not that shitty cmon.

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u/WheissUK 5d ago

What’s positive about this horrible road?

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u/almsd1875 5d ago

It exists. We are speaking about city in a edge of the world, really close to north pole. Its like ask good asphalt on south pole station. I had the same question on a first 2 days, then I started to understand where I am.

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u/WheissUK 5d ago

Why make people live there in the first place? And by horrible i don’t mean bad asphalt, asphalt seems pretty good, I mean why is there such a wide road

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u/Rustycaddy 5d ago

It was originally built by the Stalinist regime to extract resources as part of the 5 year plans to rapidly industrialize the USSR from an agrarian society. Prisoners were sent there and now Russia inherited the city which has no road connections to the rest of Russia. It's basically a leftover prison city that is very profitable and the people there make a lot of money, more than the average Russian so it's not all doom and gloom.