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Olson, Freelance/National Geographic |
Norilsk,
Siberia, is the largest town in the world north of the Arctic Circle
and the most polluted. Stalin built this town as a gulag to send political
prisoners to work camps at the nickel mines and smelters. Conditions
at the Norilsk mine and smelter haven't changed much since Stalin.
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