Parallel to founded the Gulag of Norillag, Norilsk (134 832 inhabitants at the time of the census of 2002,) is a city located in the middle of the okroug of Taïmyr, but depending administratively on the '' kraï '' of Krasnoïarsk in Russia. Located at the north of the Arctic Circle, it is regarded as the most septentrional city of the world.

This city-factory had been created by Stalin to exploit the ores of Siberia: the extraction of the Nickel, of the Copper, the Cobalt and coal, as well as the thermo plants and hydroelectric, constitute the activity of the city. Today, logic is not any more to fix the populations at it, and the principal company, Norilsk Nickel , has especially recourse to temporary works. Also the population of the city decreases it (having passed of 180.000 inhabitants in 1989 to 132.000 in 2005), and no sign makes it possible to consider conversely tendency. Each year, of the million tons of Sulfur dioxide are rejected into the air by the factories of Norilsk, which belongs to the most polluted cities world, and constitutes a closed Ville for this reason, including with the Russians themselves.

It was installation in relation to the mine of Nickel, one of most important of the world, and centers metallurgical (combine). A way of Railroad of 80 km connects it to the port Dudinka on the Ienisseï.

It is also the place from where the three-quarter is extracted from the worldwide production of the palladium.

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