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There is a mistake in the video's name and description - the Komi Republic is not part of Russia itself, it's a member of the Russian Federation. I know, because I live in Syktyvkar.
How to escape Vorkuta gulag in 8 simple steps: 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
My grandpa (who was a American), was sentenced to a gulag out there. He had a Russian friend who helped him break out of that gulag, and they apparently went separate ways once they escaped. That same grandpa actually served in the vietnam war. That war made him so crazy that he started getting ptsd and would “see” that Russian friend that helped him escape and would show him how to get out difficult situations.
My great grandpa spent 11 years in the Vorkuta Gulag for his service in the German army. He was used during the construction of the Salekhard-Igarka railroad in the arctic. He said that under each railroad track, they buried a worker, that had died during the construction.
That's very interesting, thank you for your comment. I was lucky enough to actually travel on the only segment of the railroad passing through Salekhard and Igarka that was completed, the one between Vorkuta and Labytnangi. Hopefully I'll get around to edit that in a few weeks.
@@collydub1987 you do realize that back then everyone was forced to join the war at one point in the war .My grandpa got sent in when he was 16 and came back in his mid twenty’s because he was in a Russian pow camp
Fritz, these were not Nazi death camps. These were LABOR camps. it was not profitable for them to lose workers. The fact that your great grandpa lived there for 11 years confirms this. Most stayed in these camps for 3-5 years and returned to Germany. For 11 years, only a real war criminal could have been there, who had a lot of blood on his hands.
@@Hanna-ls2sv sweety, after all this shit you "poor Europeans" did to Russia's population in 1941-1944, just raping some "innocent" Germans wasn't enough to punish you. 27M of Soviet victims (deaths only - without cripped, raped etc people) are a joke to you?
Honestly would have preferred to hear much more from him than the host. Davide was just painting with a very broad stroke while Stephan gave a much more differentiated, nuanced and thus interesting picture of the situation.
Hi, im from Namalsk. We've also got a City called Vorkuta. Many "ppl" live there and a lot of abandoned Houses shows up. One of my first steps every Morning is to take fresh water from the School compound and start finding some goods around. Sometimes it feels like dying and reborn again to do this every day... Well, greetings and have some nice Dayz
@ wasn’t me, I’m actually in Livonia for holiday right now.. I remember when namalsk was a respectable little island, and people didn’t have fires and parties in old run down houses
That place looks like the actual feeling of depression decided to materialise and transform into a city. Vorkuta is the physical representation of depression and broken dreams.
i dont like to see people unhappy because of the fall of the soviet union, but i thank our previous world leaders another day for not making me a "slave"
@@gyeok4475 what are you talking about? Even in most remote places people have stable access to water, electricity and even internet. And no, most Russians actually realize that country is not best to live, many wants to emigrate. Mayby its true only for old people that watch many propaganda on TV. In Russia even many memmes about how bad country compared to Europe or US
This town literally looks like something out of a survival horror game. Also I find it kind of strange that you can rent an apartment for a single Ruble but your bus ticket was like 39. Really a statement to the idea that everyone wants to leave and no one wants to stay.
You can even buy an apartment for a single ruble. Heating costs hundreds of USD when temperature is -50, it's really expensive to have real estate there. The main profit is not the money owner gets but the stop of losses
@@БрутальныйКолибри Guessing construction supplies must be very expensive there too - and it's not like you can just go to the nearest Home Depot easily. It's not magic to build super-insulated living quarters.
It is in a survival horror game called DayZ! It’s on the Namalsk map. I tend to avoid the city of vorkuta because you will likely be robbed killed or cannibalized by other players that are desperate for food, clothes or other supplies.
The young (between 20 and 30) always find most towns boring and depressing, but us retired people on a fixed income find them comfortable and reassuring. Boring is what security does to people, and as we die so do our antiquated towns.
not really. it isnt depressing because it is boring. it is depressing because it is fucking ugly and cold. there are plenty of quite, rural areas in the world that arent hideous, bleak and a miserable -40C in the winter. some of us dont want to spend the last years of our life confined to a shitty apartment for 6 months a year so that we dont die of frostbite.
@@adrianc6534 I was raised in northern Wisconsin and have been in Montana since 1985. In 1988 it got down to -51c, and -30c was common at that latitude in the US. I didn't see people in the Twin Cities leaving because of the cold. Ugliness is a developed point of view. I stick by my comment for these reasons.
@@adrianc6534 you're right, for example there are plenty of rural low cost towns in tropical southeast asia where you can still get all your modern wants and needs, but then it's too far from home and also culture shock for most westerners
I am 31 years old, I am not young ( if young only between 20-30), and I think this place is disgusting )), my mother is almost 60 and she agrees with me, no matter how old you are, this place is still terribly, cruel, depressing.
everything was really interesting and for some reason i like the atmosphere in this place. it blew my mind actually when stefan said they have internet and everything :i great video.
As a homeless man from Australia who's spent years living on the streets just watching this place and how ghostly, cold and unforbidden it looked really made me sad inside. I could only imagine how hard life would be there
This guy needs to do a collab with Bald and Bankrupt. So Bald can say Soviet 1000x in a video and Dave Legenda can say the city that he's in 1000x in a video.
Vorkuta was actually Bald and Bankrupt's handle on PUA forums before he was a youtuber and deleted all that stuff. He's definitely been here. "Sightseeing".
I have a friends who lives in Vorkuta and it's funny, but she's the least depressed friend that I've ever had. It seems to me that she's just immune to depression :)
i'm from russia and we just don't smile at strangers. i know in Europe and US it's ok to go down the street and smile, but here in russia we don't do that. furthermore smiling stranger can give us anxiety, the first thought would be like something wrong with my face or my clothes or the person smiling is mentally disabled.
Lesson to be learned: Don’t come unprepared if you plan to travel any part of the world to explore; this video is a prime example as to why you should bring snow boots if you plan visiting Vorkuta during the winter.
This is absolutely fascinating. I live 20 minutes outside of Chicago, the opposite of boring or depressing but I would love to visit places like Vorkuta. I don’t know why
In Russian if an accent doesn't fall on an "o" you pronounce the "o" as a very short "a". So that would be Varkoutaah. Also, that car was a Volga, not a Lada. Thanks for the video
@@Victoria-rl4cu I would not be surprised if he has Russian citizenship, or at least some type of residency permit. Or maybe he has a wife or child in Russia. Because, when checking his video history, it seems he's been in Russia for most of the year. Even though Russia has not been opened to tourism except for a few countries. I am an American in Russia, but only because I have a child here. I had to show documents proving this just to enter the country (via Serbia). Maybe he has the same situation as me! Or perhaps citizenship or residency.
@@FenrisRUS11 прикинь я тоже в Воркуте родился, в 70-х и живу здесь и работал по всей Воркуте и в совке, и в 90-е и в 2000-е и знаю что за погода была тогда и сейчас, в конце февраля в этом году было минус 61, это абсолютно точная цифра, так как я не только проверил на сайте аэропорта и сам удивился сначала, но ночью 27 февраля посмотрел на термометр за окном и точно, минус 60 градусов, можешь поднять архивы прогнозов, кстати до этого, три месяца подряд было минус 55, с декабря по середину марта, все архивы тоже есть, так что давай не будем спорить о'кей?😏
Very interesting! I would imagine that living in a town like that, this must have been a fun adventure for Stephan. Also, as a native Russian and native English speaker myself, it's interesting to hear your accents in both languages. Your Russian is reasonably good based on how fast you speak it, but I could definitely hear that it's not your first language. And your English accent sounds kind of Italian or something like that.
Actually that looks like a pretty good place to learn Russian language - especially if your friends drop you off someplace where nobody speaks your original language. Looks like it's slow on paying work opportunities however.
Damn I wish and I'd love to explore such abandoned places. So many souls lived and died in such places, so many broken souls. Places like this are something of real and ineffable interest to me. I'd really love to do photography at such places .Loved your exploration, Dave !
@@cerealfiend3065 The differing levels of melanin present represent the starkest contrast between Detroit and Vorkuta, and their respective violent crime rates.
It’s the setting of the game Metro Exodus in real life. Amazing to see how life is like on another part of the world. Thanks for sharing this great footage. Time really stand still in this town of Vorkuta.
Maybe it’s because I’m a graphic designer, but one thing I love about the Soviet towns are the signs they have for the town name. Often 3D like a sculpture rather than the flat standardized ones in most countries.
It is my motherland. When i was a little girl i played there with wind and snow. In the sky i seen Northern Lights. Every family in Russia love Sovet Union because we got houses for free. We got big money in this city after Great war 1941-1945. People from Vorkuta are kind very much. They speak very kind language without bad and dirty words. Hi from Tula, Russian Federatoin. From Russia with love. I respect guy in red in the video. Komi, i love you!
@Том Keep in mind, a lot of people who express distaste for your region never grew up in it. They can't appreciate the beauty that can be found even in the most bleak places of the world.
Yuliana Vorobyova На 8.04 мальчик говорит что в Воркуте очень дорогие квартиры, но я не раз слышала что люди даже за копейки не могут их продать, нет спроса, люди просто оставляют их и уезжают, а дорого обычно когда спрос большой, по моему пацан не совсем в теме по стоимости жилья в Воркуте, как думаете?
To any Russian people here, just so you know, this is happening in America too (minus the extreme cold). West Virginia and other coal towns are dying here as well. It's not just you. This is a hard, but necessary transition to happen. The climate is SCREWED and getting worse far faster than many scientist predicted. The best thing existing coal towns can do is prepare for the transition to green energy. If they cannot and have no other sources of income, then the state needs to work on moving these people out and finding them housing in areas where they have other opportunities. Letting people just slowly die in the middle of nowhere with few resources is extremely cruel. Educate the people and save as many that are willing to leave. You won't save everyone. There will always be a few who will insist on staying no matter what. It took a long time to full evacuate everyone from that coal town that is currently on fire, and will be for many years to come (the one they based the "Silent Hill" games on.
Well actually my dude this town with burning mines have no actuall connection with silent hill games, only with a movie. And second one is I think people from Vorkuta are well known, that it is not the only place on the Earth which suffers from closing mines. For example like in the movie "tall man" where is basically the same thing happend
The coal mines in my town were all closed in the 1980s and it had bugger all to do with the climate. Nothing replaced those lost jobs and the town never recovered. It's the English version of Vortuka.
This was a pretty entertaining insight I never knew I needed! You're a terrific and engaging host and have earned my sub! Love all the from the Middle East 😃
This is how depression would look like. It is really an uncanny feeling seeing the manifestation of your inside. It's not dark... nor is particularly gloomy or scary. Just sterile ruins, constantly having cold, white light illuminate that what stands from shattered hopes and dreams. Cynicism. Cold, factual and opinions made from constantly being disappointed and abandoned. Like those buildings. It's just lifeless and in disrepair. That's how my depression feels for me. Yes, you can smile, you can enjoy life occasionally, you can even laugh. But deep down you know the moments are fleeting and will not last. That's when you return home. In your own little Vorkuta.
Please read the Bible. Turn to Christ. The feelings so beautifully described in your comment can be changed and you will be uplifted from the despair. "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." - John 1:5, The Bible
@@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive And then people like you show up.... I have read the bible 4 times. I was a baptist and catholic for a big portion of my life. I really don't care for it. I'm an Atheist now. Depression isn't solved by some magical Sky Daddy my friend, it's solved by Therapie, careful Medication, life improvement and alot of hard work. You're a predator of your faith, praying on weakned people in times of dispair. Which is immoral. But what can I expect from an ill guided and predatory faith? Yes, I know your Sky Daddy wants to send me to hell even though he loves me, yadi yadi yada.... See you in hell too, I don't give three hoots.
Great video, I enjoyed it. But in 3:51 you say people here want to go back to the times of the Soviet Union. Well of course if it used to be a big and busy town with a good industry and then it just got fucked over they will want to go back to the Soviet Union. Or poorer ex-USSR countries like Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan want to also. But the average middle class Russian wouldn’t. Only in the 1970s was it that 2/3rds of the Soviet population began having a refrigerator. I certainly don’t want to defend America but America already achieved that statistic in the 1930s. And during Soviet times 60% of residents lived under the European Union’s poverty line. A lot of the economic problems in the 90s during the Perestroika already began in the late 80s though not to the same extent. I wasn’t alive during those times but having spoken to some that were, I’d say people in different parts of the ex-USSR will have different perspectives, but most wouldn’t go back. Russia isn’t perfect, but its living standards are improving, even if it is slow. I think people just have nostalgia for the 80s and еаrly 90s, otherwise most Russians certainly don’t miss USSR.
@@Dan-Martin At least the living standards are improving. And indigenous Siberians are no longer having their culture silenced, Ukrainians aren't having their crops burnt by Stalin, Jews can now get a job they are qualified for regardless of their religious beliefs, etc. Only sadistic elite Muscovites think the Soviet Union was better
@@yurippp634 Didn’t they burn their own crops because they refused collectivization? Funny how I know more Russian history than you. Also, I wasn’t aware Stalin was the only leader of the USSR. Interesting. You have a Russian imperial flag as a profile pic... the last time the monarchs held power 70% of Russians were illiterate and the country was a backwater. Living standards improving? You guys only export oil and weapons, you’re never going to out capitalist the west... enjoy your stagnation, at least with the ussr you had a different path for development. Which was quite unique and admirable.
@@Dan-Martin You don't know shit about Russian history, you probably have never read a book about the USSR and get all your information off of Wikipedia. I never once said or even implied Stalin was the only leader, there's this thing called an example. I certainly don't want to compare one atrocity to another, but if you deny a genocide or an ethnic cleansing, what makes you different from a neo-Nazi who says the Holocaust didn't happen? Nothing. And I find it funny how countries where kulaks weren't prosecuted didn't have such a famine, yet not only Ukraine, but Kazakhstan did too, why isn't it the entirety of the Eurasian Steppe, you fucking pseudointellectual? Also seems strange to me that despite there being many ethnic Russians in Ukraine, the Ukrainian population went down whilst the opposite could be said for Russia. And like I said, read the book I gave you the link to if you don't have cognitive dissonance, because it will change your entire worldview, very great and informative statistics, something communist swine like you tend to not use and instead resort to ad hominems.
I visited Russia in 2015 and wanted to visit Vorkuta for its wilderness (I don't like to visit exclusively touristic places). My girlfriend at the time didn't want so we ended in Petrozavodsk, which is a nice and less remote city. Respect to all the people who worked in gulag (read Solyenitsine). Cheers to Russian people, your country is beautiful and with a wonderful (but harsh) history.
I'm sorry if I'm shattering any illusions people have but Vorkuta is definitely not that far north "as is humanly possible to go". In fact, I myself have been considerably further north just by taking a "Hurtigruten" cruise along the coast of Norway. In Norway as well as Sweden and Finland, there are several prosperous cities at the same latitude or even further north.
4:50 it's not Lada it's Volga)) I've been to Vorkuta 15 years ago and it was like time-travel to the past) it would be great if it wasn't be so cold. and I don't see any change since there. so now it's time-travel fifteen years more deeply in the past
12:30 The thing is that even though they recorded -52 *C it's not so much colder than in central Europe during -25*C. Low air humidity makes -50*C an endurable temperature in Vorkuta.
Я бы так несказал , холодно там где ветренно . Мой дед был на севере , он был нефтянником . Так вот , по его рассказам в -40 нехолодно , так как безветренно . Все зависит от ветра , если ветер холодный и сильный , то холодно
I'm sure that the "1 ruble apartment" in Vorkuta is the same thing as the "1 euro house" in Sicily, they are rundown properties tyat the municipality gives you for free on the condition that you repair the property and then live there.
Well, it's not like this, people who don't want to live Vorkuta have this problem: they have to pay for there apartment (electricity and other stuff) even if they don't live there, even if nobody lives in the apartment building, just because they owners of the apartments they get expensive bills, sometimes, people can't go abroad even for tourism, because they have those huge bills, so they try to sell those apartments for almost for free, but it's not that easy
5:00 I think this is a Volga..... surely not a Lada... and I am not even Russian..... But I love your vid... I hope you will do interviews with people too... Thumb+subscription!! Greetings fro the Netherlands, Henk!!
I can only imagine how depressing it can be to not have any type of social life. If you’re growing old with your significant other then that’s fine, but imagine wanting to meet someone and perhaps start a family☹️😔
Never heard of this town, I just found it on my Apple Maps, i get interested and look at satellite images of remote places in Nothern Russia, found Vorkuta, and saw there was some very obscure buildings on the outskirts of town. So,now I’m here, virtually walking around it.
Ok, I can understand an Italian guy who speaks fluent English (doesn't happen that often tho). But his Russian is also quite impressive.. now that I can't understand. What's your story man?
LoL, I'm Italian myself and didn't recognize him as Italian :) I mean we normally (even those that speak fluently, like me) a quite distinguishable accent, as like as for Greek guys or Bulgarians or Belorussians (I worked with all of them), but this guy doesn't. Congrats to him!
@@AlessandroGenTLe I would not be surprised if he has Russian citizenship (perhaps due to some Russian background), or at least some type of residency permit. Or maybe he has a wife or child in Russia. Because, when checking his video history, it seems he's been in Russia for most of the year. Even though Russia has not been opened to tourism except for a few countries. I am an American in Russia, but only because I have a child here. I had to show documents proving this just to enter the country (via Serbia). Maybe he has the same situation as me! Or perhaps citizenship or residency.
Wow from Italy? This is the first time I've seen his video and I half expected him to be from the post-soviet baltic states since his Russian accent is so good.
Those aren't coal deposits. The asphalt in the USSR is notoriously terrible and turns to dust after about a year. And all that black stuff is the asphalt dust from the cars driving by.
@@SuperGeronimo999 I think maybe I could have worded that better. I meant to say that it starts to crumble like this. It doesn't all turn to powder exactly 1 year after setting.
@@SuperGeronimo999 Possibly true, but most European roads don't exist in these conditions. The ones that do (I'm thinking Finland) aren't crumbling like this. I also see this type of snow dust on roads in much milder climates, like Kyiv and Odessa.
I feel like those people after 2:05 didn't appreciate some southern vlogger insulting their town like that. That flat cap guy was staring dead into him. Cool vid!
Dave, those trips back in time are interesting. Really! Just a friendly suggestion: would you dial back the constant "this is amazing" tone in the narration? We get it, no need to be constantly cheered to watch those videos.
Hello sir.. I was in minus 48 C in Rovaniemi Finland for a week, I lived there but that -48 was not easy.. skin burns quickly,, in seconds you feel the pain.. car tires did not thaw out so the cars were driving with flat spots on the tires .. but after that it was back to -15 or -25.. not so bad
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@@seananon4893 Italy
There is a mistake in the video's name and description - the Komi Republic is not part of Russia itself, it's a member of the Russian Federation. I know, because I live in Syktyvkar.
If I had a dollar for every time you said Vorkuta in this video maaaaaan...
How to escape Vorkuta gulag in 8 simple steps:
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
URRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAA
-Step 8 Reznov - freedom!
-for you Mason not for me
-REZNOV!
Uuuuuuuraaaaaaaa!!!!
You got no idea how much I was looking for this comment. I remember playing it christmas of 2010 on the 360
URRRAAAAAAAAA
Imagine riding the bus to work or run errands and seeing a UA-camr filming themselves yelling into their phone about how awful your home is lol.
My grandpa (who was a American), was sentenced to a gulag out there. He had a Russian friend who helped him break out of that gulag, and they apparently went separate ways once they escaped.
That same grandpa actually served in the vietnam war. That war made him so crazy that he started getting ptsd and would “see” that Russian friend that helped him escape and would show him how to get out difficult situations.
Shut up you liar thats from a video game called black ops
i read this in a history book!!! there were steps to their escape right? i completely forgot, all i remember is to secure the keys
@@erikbrand6682 oh word?
yeah secure keys, reign fire.. something like that idk.
@@lerikaharevic Something about releasing hordes and fists of iron?
I get it
My great grandpa spent 11 years in the Vorkuta Gulag for his service in the German army. He was used during the construction of the Salekhard-Igarka railroad in the arctic. He said that under each railroad track, they buried a worker, that had died during the construction.
That's very interesting, thank you for your comment. I was lucky enough to actually travel on the only segment of the railroad passing through Salekhard and Igarka that was completed, the one between Vorkuta and Labytnangi. Hopefully I'll get around to edit that in a few weeks.
'Service in the german army'
@@collydub1987 you do realize that back then everyone was forced to join the war at one point in the war .My grandpa got sent in when he was 16 and came back in his mid twenty’s because he was in a Russian pow camp
Fritz, these were not Nazi death camps. These were LABOR camps. it was not profitable for them to lose workers. The fact that your great grandpa lived there for 11 years confirms this. Most stayed in these camps for 3-5 years and returned to Germany. For 11 years, only a real war criminal could have been there, who had a lot of blood on his hands.
@@MarMar-nq9ii his killstreak was probably pretty high, probably owned a lot of commies
But in Vorkuta, we are ALL brothers !
We are all soilders without an army, betrayed, forgotten, abandoned...
REZNOV!
With my life
THIS IS STEP ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
SECURE THE KEYS
It may be a depressing place but always remember: "In Vorkuta, we are ALL Brothers"
"Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifice, Mason. We Russians know this better than anyone."
- Viktor Reznov
Good game good quotes
@@fratfratish9533 👍🏾
@@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive The NUMBERS mason what are the NUMBERS.
True
@@Hanna-ls2sv sweety, after all this shit you "poor Europeans" did to Russia's population in 1941-1944, just raping some "innocent" Germans wasn't enough to punish you. 27M of Soviet victims (deaths only - without cripped, raped etc people) are a joke to you?
Stephan seems like a chill dude. It was definitely great hearing his experience. Thanks for an interesting video!
Honestly would have preferred to hear much more from him than the host. Davide was just painting with a very broad stroke while Stephan gave a much more differentiated, nuanced and thus interesting picture of the situation.
Hi, im from Namalsk. We've also got a City called Vorkuta. Many "ppl" live there and a lot of abandoned Houses shows up. One of my first steps every Morning is to take fresh water from the School compound and start finding some goods around. Sometimes it feels like dying and reborn again to do this every day... Well, greetings and have some nice Dayz
Greetings from Nemsk 🫡
@@rocky5587 Mate i live in Jalivisko not far from you. Did you have a fire near the crackhouse last night? Asking for a friend.
@ wasn’t me, I’m actually in Livonia for holiday right now.. I remember when namalsk was a respectable little island, and people didn’t have fires and parties in old run down houses
So in Vorkuta, a bus ticket is 15x the price of an apartment.
No, 18x
39х
He exadurated about apartment for rouble. But i've seen few of them for 50k roubles which is about 750$. And this is extremely cheap.
@@РэйЧехов а скоростной интернет у вас там есть? Как у вас там с почтой?
@@РэйЧехов exaggerating things seems to be normal for this guy. after making so many assumptions to seem more hardcore, i lost trust in the guy
That place looks like the actual feeling of depression decided to materialise and transform into a city. Vorkuta is the physical representation of depression and broken dreams.
i dont like to see people unhappy because of the fall of the soviet union, but i thank our previous world leaders another day for not making me a "slave"
Most Russians don't even have stable access to water and electricity. But they are brainwashed to think it's the best country in the world
@@gyeok4475 what are you talking about? Even in most remote places people have stable access to water, electricity and even internet. And no, most Russians actually realize that country is not best to live, many wants to emigrate. Mayby its true only for old people that watch many propaganda on TV. In Russia even many memmes about how bad country compared to Europe or US
It sounds like Miami 😲
depression - yes, but broken dreams? no. there were no dreams to begin with.
This town literally looks like something out of a survival horror game.
Also I find it kind of strange that you can rent an apartment for a single Ruble but your bus ticket was like 39. Really a statement to the idea that everyone wants to leave and no one wants to stay.
You can even buy an apartment for a single ruble. Heating costs hundreds of USD when temperature is -50, it's really expensive to have real estate there. The main profit is not the money owner gets but the stop of losses
@@БрутальныйКолибри Guessing construction supplies must be very expensive there too - and it's not like you can just go to the nearest Home Depot easily. It's not magic to build super-insulated living quarters.
It is in a survival horror game called DayZ! It’s on the Namalsk map. I tend to avoid the city of vorkuta because you will likely be robbed killed or cannibalized by other players that are desperate for food, clothes or other supplies.
I think this guy exaggerated the price of the flat here. You can't rent a flat for as cheap
@@oAzurful Sounds like the game is manifesting IRL or vice versa :(
The young (between 20 and 30) always find most towns boring and depressing, but us retired people on a fixed income find them comfortable and reassuring. Boring is what security does to people, and as we die so do our antiquated towns.
not really. it isnt depressing because it is boring. it is depressing because it is fucking ugly and cold. there are plenty of quite, rural areas in the world that arent hideous, bleak and a miserable -40C in the winter. some of us dont want to spend the last years of our life confined to a shitty apartment for 6 months a year so that we dont die of frostbite.
@@adrianc6534 I was raised in northern Wisconsin and have been in Montana since 1985. In 1988 it got down to -51c, and -30c was common at that latitude in the US. I didn't see people in the Twin Cities leaving because of the cold. Ugliness is a developed point of view. I stick by my comment for these reasons.
@@adrianc6534 you're right, for example there are plenty of rural low cost towns in tropical southeast asia where you can still get all your modern wants and needs, but then it's too far from home and also culture shock for most westerners
@@adrianc6534 i love winter and cold, but i agree, this place is terrible, and age does not matter..
I am 31 years old, I am not young ( if young only between 20-30), and I think this place is disgusting )), my mother is almost 60 and she agrees with me, no matter how old you are, this place is still terribly, cruel, depressing.
Stephen is a badass, growing up in a town like that, seems pretty normal too, nothing awkward about em.
everything was really interesting and for some reason i like the atmosphere in this place.
it blew my mind actually when stefan said they have internet and everything :i
great video.
As a homeless man from Australia who's spent years living on the streets just watching this place and how ghostly, cold and unforbidden it looked really made me sad inside. I could only imagine how hard life would be there
How many years you lived on the streets?
Well, you would have no chance to survive on the streets there. Just due to climate.
@@rusmorpeh3314 you can live in abandon building
That's why you're homeless, because u imagine that life is hard, but in reality it's not so bad..
@@rusmorpeh3314 real Russian bomzh would easily survive in vorkuta.
This guy needs to do a collab with Bald and Bankrupt. So Bald can say Soviet 1000x in a video and Dave Legenda can say the city that he's in 1000x in a video.
Vorkuta was actually Bald and Bankrupt's handle on PUA forums before he was a youtuber and deleted all that stuff. He's definitely been here. "Sightseeing".
Nah.
@@Christopher.Harvey333 *Ok.*
No, bald seems like a guy on a mission, I don't like that guy.
haha
I have a friends who lives in Vorkuta and it's funny, but she's the least depressed friend that I've ever had. It seems to me that she's just immune to depression :)
I love how Dave is always happy and cheerful and the other guy is just like: 😐
Davide gets to leave the other guy has to stay in that hell hole..
The other guy is genuine and humble, as well as slightly embarrassed by the host's comments. But still friendly and co-operative...
i'm from russia and we just don't smile at strangers. i know in Europe and US it's ok to go down the street and smile, but here in russia we don't do that. furthermore smiling stranger can give us anxiety, the first thought would be like something wrong with my face or my clothes or the person smiling is mentally disabled.
@@liftedgifted6010 or the person is drunk. or on drugs. in other words something should be not right for a rando to smile at you.
The other was probably thinking about the 8 steps to escape from Vorkuta
Lesson to be learned: Don’t come unprepared if you plan to travel any part of the world to explore; this video is a prime example as to why you should bring snow boots if you plan visiting Vorkuta during the winter.
Or in the summer! This was in summer. Remember David said “I know this is summer for you but it feels like winter for me.”
And if you meet a guy named "Reznov" the CIA would like to talk to you.
very enteresting, i didn't know this place, until i watched your video. thank you so much.
What video games do you usually play?
The russian kid: "counter strike"
And csgo
from first second he came I wondered how he plays cs with 120 ping, not even doubting that he does, like cmon he is russian
@@that1randomguyonyt775 csgo is counterstrike D:D
@@vinkoakrap6365 he prob plays 1.6
finally i´ve seen the russian Toxic Kid
now i can die
Now, we take Vorkuta!
~ Viktor Reznov
Урррраааааааааа!!!!
~ the rest of the prisoners
@Grant Commons Agreed. The Black Ops 1 and 2 and trilogy of Modern Warfare! They are all great!
URAAAA!!!!!
Thanks
This is absolutely fascinating. I live 20 minutes outside of Chicago, the opposite of boring or depressing but I would love to visit places like Vorkuta. I don’t know why
As a tourist is pretty easy....but yes, depressive things are interesting for many of us. We enjoy the sadness....hard to explain
I also live 20 minutes outside of chicago and I do find it boring and depressing
@@andreatoppi5627 by visiting such places you get to really appreciate where you live.
@@andreatoppi5627 Exactly. I wonder if we have some inner sense of wanting to see less fortune in order to appreciate what we have.
Because vorkuta would be safe unlike chicago
drinking game:
every time dave says "Vorkuta" you have to take a shot
😂😂😂😂😂
It's a cute name !
Wow thanks for the tour, now I can take it off my bucket list
HAHAHAHAHA
In Russian if an accent doesn't fall on an "o" you pronounce the "o" as a very short "a". So that would be Varkoutaah.
Also, that car was a Volga, not a Lada.
Thanks for the video
Да, черна Волга
Damyan Krastev isn't this man of the documentary Russian?
@@Victoria-rl4cu I would not be surprised if he has Russian citizenship, or at least some type of residency permit. Or maybe he has a wife or child in Russia. Because, when checking his video history, it seems he's been in Russia for most of the year. Even though Russia has not been opened to tourism except for a few countries. I am an American in Russia, but only because I have a child here. I had to show documents proving this just to enter the country (via Serbia). Maybe he has the same situation as me! Or perhaps citizenship or residency.
У него ударения хромают
That car had remarkably nice seats, given that everything else in it was smash and grabbed.
4:09 "Wow, an abandoned Lada!" (shows a Volga)
For every Vorkuta a shot and you are hammered after five minutes.
I love how excited you are in this video your voice sounds so genuinely enthusiastic, it’s nice to watch! :)
"My Jordans are definitely not going to survive this day in Vorkuta!" - Mason, Alex.
9:48 😂
Your vibe is so fun, you need more subscribers
We're all soldiers without an Army
BETRAYED, FORGOTTEN, ABANDONED
In Vorkuta we're all Brothers!!!
So, if you're not cleaning the windows of another brother, who would ?
Hey, Reznov, can you trust this American ?
Dave my man!! So happy to see you’re finally getting some well deserved recognition
Cheers man, appreciate it. HMU when you're in Russia
@@DaveLegenda I tried getting in, they didn’t let me on the flight lol
Awesome video man cheers !
Long live Sergei 🤧🤝🙏
“Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifice, Mason”.
in February 2021 there where frosts of minus 61 degrees in Vorkuta.
i myself live in Vorkuta☝️😎
That's cool. Maybe you can help if I decide to come this winter?
Что-то я не припомню таких морозов у нас даже в декабре, а ты тут про февраль пишешь😄
@@FenrisRUS11 наверное ты не живёшь в Воркуте, поэтому и не помнишь.
@@Confederate_WON Я родился здесь и до сих пор живу, поэтому и пишу, нет тут настолько сильных морозов.
@@FenrisRUS11 прикинь я тоже в Воркуте родился, в 70-х и живу здесь и работал по всей Воркуте и в совке, и в 90-е и в 2000-е и знаю что за погода была тогда и сейчас, в конце февраля в этом году было минус 61, это абсолютно точная цифра, так как я не только проверил на сайте аэропорта и сам удивился сначала, но ночью 27 февраля посмотрел на термометр за окном и точно, минус 60 градусов, можешь поднять архивы прогнозов, кстати до этого, три месяца подряд было минус 55, с декабря по середину марта, все архивы тоже есть, так что давай не будем спорить о'кей?😏
It's terrifying that there are towns like this all over the world in increasing numbers in every country.
Exactly!
not terrifying
These videos make my entire day… thank you Davide!
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 Yield the fist of steel
STEP 7 Unleash hell
STEP 8 Freedom
Thanks for the tour Dave, very interesting, I could never live in a place like that but I'm sure the locals like it👍
The most interesting part was his talking with the local. His Russian is also easy to understand.
Very interesting! I would imagine that living in a town like that, this must have been a fun adventure for Stephan. Also, as a native Russian and native English speaker myself, it's interesting to hear your accents in both languages. Your Russian is reasonably good based on how fast you speak it, but I could definitely hear that it's not your first language. And your English accent sounds kind of Italian or something like that.
Actually that looks like a pretty good place to learn Russian language - especially if your friends drop you off someplace where nobody speaks your original language. Looks like it's slow on paying work opportunities however.
Damn I wish and I'd love to explore such abandoned places. So many souls lived and died in such places, so many broken souls. Places like this are something of real and ineffable interest to me. I'd really love to do photography at such places .Loved your exploration, Dave !
Another great vid, great seeing your adventures 👍
The Detroit of the North.
I was waiting for those two dudes on the bus behind you to rob you...
Big difference between Detroit & V-Town...consider the demographics if you will...
@@jaxhoffalot2812 can you go into a little more detail? I'm not sure what you're talking about.
@@cerealfiend3065 The differing levels of melanin present represent the starkest contrast between Detroit and Vorkuta, and their respective violent crime rates.
😒
@@jaxhoffalot2812 never relax around ....?
I like your report very much !! 😍
And your English is wonderful indeed !!
From Germany with love !!
I remember this town from call of duty lol. Great vid as always!
It’s the setting of the game Metro Exodus in real life. Amazing to see how life is like on another part of the world. Thanks for sharing this great footage. Time really stand still in this town of Vorkuta.
Or Stalker: winter edition :D
Opeth, nice
There is a map in dayz that feature this town also
Everytime I hear Vorkuta, I automatically remember 2010's Call Of Duty Black Ops.
Love how the ghost town has a bus stop with a QR code
That’s my birth town and I was quite happy there before me and my family went to Germany in 1995.
Yeah Germany is another type of depressing
No way to go back to Vorkuta?
Так возвращается. Квартиры там копеечные))
Traitor of Russia, enricher of Germany
I wish I lived in Vorkuta. Mexican here.
Great video mate! Always a pleasure to be able to see towns like these!
Wow this is amazing.. to see such a remote, cold place.. thank you for taking us there with you! ❤
Crazy how Lenin street looks to be in better condition than some of the roads here in Michigan
That’s because Russians secretly want to go back to the USSR. Talk about Stockholm syndrome
@@joshclark5231 I think it's because no one drives on them
@@danielyeary148 besides the KGB! Muah haha
One of the most interesting videos I have seen lately. I was totally wondering what was going on in this part of the world. Thanks Dave
This city had a population of not 115,000, but 230,000, in its best years. I lived in Vorkuta for about 40 years. This city has the best people.
Maybe it’s because I’m a graphic designer, but one thing I love about the Soviet towns are the signs they have for the town name. Often 3D like a sculpture rather than the flat standardized ones in most countries.
Yes
It is my motherland. When i was a little girl i played there with wind and snow. In the sky i seen Northern Lights. Every family in Russia love Sovet Union because we got houses for free. We got big money in this city after Great war 1941-1945. People from Vorkuta are kind very much. They speak very kind language without bad and dirty words. Hi from Tula, Russian Federatoin. From Russia with love. I respect guy in red in the video. Komi, i love you!
That is a very nice comment ❤
@Том Keep in mind, a lot of people who express distaste for your region never grew up in it. They can't appreciate the beauty that can be found even in the most bleak places of the world.
Yuliana Vorobyova На 8.04 мальчик говорит что в Воркуте очень дорогие квартиры, но я не раз слышала что люди даже за копейки не могут их продать, нет спроса, люди просто оставляют их и уезжают, а дорого обычно когда спрос большой, по моему пацан не совсем в теме по стоимости жилья в Воркуте, как думаете?
Thank you. I’m in USA. The government wants us to hate each other. But I don’t. !!!!!!!
@Nikolay Karlovich i remember that. Nice time!
Thank you for posting. You're physically tough to endure this adventure.
Hopefully you made some friends there.....yes?
My Grandparents met in Vorkuta, in a Gulag... That was in early 50's. Amazing people, so strong.
And does they met an American prisoner named "Alex Mason" once ?
“Every journey begins with a single step. This is STEP ONE!”
“Secure the keys!!!”
I was there in the 90’s. Our flight to Usinsk, Komi got rerouted there. Not so bad. Nice people.
To any Russian people here, just so you know, this is happening in America too (minus the extreme cold). West Virginia and other coal towns are dying here as well. It's not just you. This is a hard, but necessary transition to happen. The climate is SCREWED and getting worse far faster than many scientist predicted. The best thing existing coal towns can do is prepare for the transition to green energy. If they cannot and have no other sources of income, then the state needs to work on moving these people out and finding them housing in areas where they have other opportunities. Letting people just slowly die in the middle of nowhere with few resources is extremely cruel. Educate the people and save as many that are willing to leave. You won't save everyone. There will always be a few who will insist on staying no matter what. It took a long time to full evacuate everyone from that coal town that is currently on fire, and will be for many years to come (the one they based the "Silent Hill" games on.
Well actually my dude this town with burning mines have no actuall connection with silent hill games, only with a movie. And second one is I think people from Vorkuta are well known, that it is not the only place on the Earth which suffers from closing mines. For example like in the movie "tall man" where is basically the same thing happend
The coal mines in my town were all closed in the 1980s and it had bugger all to do with the climate. Nothing replaced those lost jobs and the town never recovered. It's the English version of Vortuka.
Fax i don’t have it such as bad but i live in a lil remote town in SC n there is nothing here and no one here
Thank the Libs for the decline to the coal industry. They are running on electric dreams, while bankrupting the U.S.
This was a pretty entertaining insight I never knew I needed! You're a terrific and engaging host and have earned my sub!
Love all the from the Middle East 😃
love it ! i hope you interact with more random people !
This is how depression would look like. It is really an uncanny feeling seeing the manifestation of your inside. It's not dark... nor is particularly gloomy or scary. Just sterile ruins, constantly having cold, white light illuminate that what stands from shattered hopes and dreams. Cynicism. Cold, factual and opinions made from constantly being disappointed and abandoned. Like those buildings.
It's just lifeless and in disrepair. That's how my depression feels for me. Yes, you can smile, you can enjoy life occasionally, you can even laugh. But deep down you know the moments are fleeting and will not last. That's when you return home. In your own little Vorkuta.
Please read the Bible. Turn to Christ. The feelings so beautifully described in your comment can be changed and you will be uplifted from the despair.
"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." - John 1:5, The Bible
@@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive And then people like you show up.... I have read the bible 4 times. I was a baptist and catholic for a big portion of my life. I really don't care for it. I'm an Atheist now. Depression isn't solved by some magical Sky Daddy my friend, it's solved by Therapie, careful Medication, life improvement and alot of hard work. You're a predator of your faith, praying on weakned people in times of dispair. Which is immoral. But what can I expect from an ill guided and predatory faith? Yes, I know your Sky Daddy wants to send me to hell even though he loves me, yadi yadi yada.... See you in hell too, I don't give three hoots.
Beautiful comment
Great video, I enjoyed it. But in 3:51 you say people here want to go back to the times of the Soviet Union. Well of course if it used to be a big and busy town with a good industry and then it just got fucked over they will want to go back to the Soviet Union. Or poorer ex-USSR countries like Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan want to also. But the average middle class Russian wouldn’t. Only in the 1970s was it that 2/3rds of the Soviet population began having a refrigerator. I certainly don’t want to defend America but America already achieved that statistic in the 1930s. And during Soviet times 60% of residents lived under the European Union’s poverty line. A lot of the economic problems in the 90s during the Perestroika already began in the late 80s though not to the same extent. I wasn’t alive during those times but having spoken to some that were, I’d say people in different parts of the ex-USSR will have different perspectives, but most wouldn’t go back. Russia isn’t perfect, but its living standards are improving, even if it is slow. I think people just have nostalgia for the 80s and еаrly 90s, otherwise most Russians certainly don’t miss USSR.
Your country used to be a leader in technology and pioneered space exploration... now it’s a shell of its former self.
@@Dan-Martin At least the living standards are improving. And indigenous Siberians are no longer having their culture silenced, Ukrainians aren't having their crops burnt by Stalin, Jews can now get a job they are qualified for regardless of their religious beliefs, etc. Only sadistic elite Muscovites think the Soviet Union was better
@@yurippp634 Didn’t they burn their own crops because they refused collectivization? Funny how I know more Russian history than you. Also, I wasn’t aware Stalin was the only leader of the USSR. Interesting. You have a Russian imperial flag as a profile pic... the last time the monarchs held power 70% of Russians were illiterate and the country was a backwater. Living standards improving? You guys only export oil and weapons, you’re never going to out capitalist the west... enjoy your stagnation, at least with the ussr you had a different path for development. Which was quite unique and admirable.
@@Dan-Martin You don't know shit about Russian history, you probably have never read a book about the USSR and get all your information off of Wikipedia. I never once said or even implied Stalin was the only leader, there's this thing called an example. I certainly don't want to compare one atrocity to another, but if you deny a genocide or an ethnic cleansing, what makes you different from a neo-Nazi who says the Holocaust didn't happen? Nothing. And I find it funny how countries where kulaks weren't prosecuted didn't have such a famine, yet not only Ukraine, but Kazakhstan did too, why isn't it the entirety of the Eurasian Steppe, you fucking pseudointellectual? Also seems strange to me that despite there being many ethnic Russians in Ukraine, the Ukrainian population went down whilst the opposite could be said for Russia. And like I said, read the book I gave you the link to if you don't have cognitive dissonance, because it will change your entire worldview, very great and informative statistics, something communist swine like you tend to not use and instead resort to ad hominems.
@@yurippp634 Боже, Царя храни! Greetings from Poland bro!
Just come across your channel I love ❤️ your video and pizza 🍕 looked good! Thank you 🙏 for sharing
Just stumbled across your channel. Love this video, great insight into a place I've never heard of before. Respect from Ireland!
I visited Russia in 2015 and wanted to visit Vorkuta for its wilderness (I don't like to visit exclusively touristic places). My girlfriend at the time didn't want so we ended in Petrozavodsk, which is a nice and less remote city. Respect to all the people who worked in gulag (read Solyenitsine). Cheers to Russian people, your country is beautiful and with a wonderful (but harsh) history.
Nice people but awful awful awful leaders
@hmu05366 you just described every modern nation
@@hmu05366best leaders for their own country
Dave, thanks for the video, very interesting!!
Thank you Dave, you're giving me strong Bald vibes. My favorite YT traveller. Vorkuta was interesting. I will keep my eye on your channel.
Here too after Balds last video from BAM
Nice to see a russia-focused vlogger who isn't a creep. Nice channel and enjoy watching
I'm sorry if I'm shattering any illusions people have but Vorkuta is definitely not that far north "as is humanly possible to go".
In fact, I myself have been considerably further north just by taking a "Hurtigruten" cruise along the coast of Norway.
In Norway as well as Sweden and Finland, there are several prosperous cities at the same latitude or even further north.
4:36 It is not LADA, it is a VOLGA (GAZ-31029)
4:50 it's not Lada it's Volga)) I've been to Vorkuta 15 years ago and it was like time-travel to the past) it would be great if it wasn't be so cold. and I don't see any change since there. so now it's time-travel fifteen years more deeply in the past
Was it your Volga then?
@@Beethoven80 nope it doesn't fit to my time machine)
@@Beethoven80 he means that seeing this video is like a time machine to him, cause he’s been there, the car thing was just a comment
My Name Is VIKTOR REZNOV And I Will Have My Revenge
12:30 The thing is that even though they recorded -52 *C it's not so much colder than in central Europe during -25*C. Low air humidity makes -50*C an endurable temperature in Vorkuta.
Я бы так несказал , холодно там где ветренно . Мой дед был на севере , он был нефтянником . Так вот , по его рассказам в -40 нехолодно , так как безветренно . Все зависит от ветра , если ветер холодный и сильный , то холодно
I don't know about that. Anything below -25 starts to make it very easy to get frostbite.
I'm sure that the "1 ruble apartment" in Vorkuta is the same thing as the "1 euro house" in Sicily, they are rundown properties tyat the municipality gives you for free on the condition that you repair the property and then live there.
Well, it's not like this, people who don't want to live Vorkuta have this problem: they have to pay for there apartment (electricity and other stuff) even if they don't live there, even if nobody lives in the apartment building, just because they owners of the apartments they get expensive bills, sometimes, people can't go abroad even for tourism, because they have those huge bills, so they try to sell those apartments for almost for free, but it's not that easy
As a person who was born and lived in Vorkuta and then lived in Sicily for 10 years - no, it's not the same thing.
@@natalya793 do you ever go back to Vorkuta?
Are you joking?
@@stephenalex4345 to Komi republic - yes, to Vorkuta - no. I still have friends who live in Vorkuta though. I know how the situation is.
5:00 I think this is a Volga..... surely not a Lada... and I am not even Russian.....
But I love your vid... I hope you will do interviews with people too...
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Greetings fro the Netherlands, Henk!!
I can only imagine how depressing it can be to not have any type of social life. If you’re growing old with your significant other then that’s fine, but imagine wanting to meet someone and perhaps start a family☹️😔
Never heard of this town, I just found it on my Apple Maps, i get interested and look at satellite images of remote places in Nothern Russia, found Vorkuta, and saw there was some very obscure buildings on the outskirts of town. So,now I’m here, virtually walking around it.
You never Play call of Duty.
Man what a nice trip you made together with Reznov👍🏻
Ok, I can understand an Italian guy who speaks fluent English (doesn't happen that often tho). But his Russian is also quite impressive.. now that I can't understand. What's your story man?
LoL, I'm Italian myself and didn't recognize him as Italian :) I mean we normally (even those that speak fluently, like me) a quite distinguishable accent, as like as for Greek guys or Bulgarians or Belorussians (I worked with all of them), but this guy doesn't. Congrats to him!
@@AlessandroGenTLe I would not be surprised if he has Russian citizenship (perhaps due to some Russian background), or at least some type of residency permit. Or maybe he has a wife or child in Russia. Because, when checking his video history, it seems he's been in Russia for most of the year. Even though Russia has not been opened to tourism except for a few countries. I am an American in Russia, but only because I have a child here. I had to show documents proving this just to enter the country (via Serbia). Maybe he has the same situation as me! Or perhaps citizenship or residency.
@@erikstorm8935 Yeah, it can be! :)
Wow from Italy? This is the first time I've seen his video and I half expected him to be from the post-soviet baltic states since his Russian accent is so good.
"Come on, Reznov! Step 8: freedom!"
"For you, Mason, not for me."
REZNOOOV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Really feel sad for that guy you met. He’s literally trapped there it’s a shame
Those aren't coal deposits. The asphalt in the USSR is notoriously terrible and turns to dust after about a year. And all that black stuff is the asphalt dust from the cars driving by.
So, roads are getting new asphalt every year?
@@SuperGeronimo999 Nope LOL they just keep getting worn down over time.
@@SuperGeronimo999 I think maybe I could have worded that better. I meant to say that it starts to crumble like this. It doesn't all turn to powder exactly 1 year after setting.
@@admiral.cosmos Thanks, it all makes sense now. Though most european roads would probably not do any better in these harsh conditions.
@@SuperGeronimo999 Possibly true, but most European roads don't exist in these conditions. The ones that do (I'm thinking Finland) aren't crumbling like this.
I also see this type of snow dust on roads in much milder climates, like Kyiv and Odessa.
I would like to know what Stepan's plans for the future are, just curious.
drugs and booze
Counter strike
@@АдамБреннан 😂😂😂😂
Seems like a real nice guy I would be happy to have him as my tour guide
3:21 реклама в тему "когда срочно надо свалить" :D
I feel like those people after 2:05 didn't appreciate some southern vlogger insulting their town like that. That flat cap guy was staring dead into him.
Cool vid!
Dave, those trips back in time are interesting. Really!
Just a friendly suggestion: would you dial back the constant "this is amazing" tone in the narration? We get it, no need to be constantly cheered to watch those videos.
Hello sir.. I was in minus 48 C in Rovaniemi Finland for a week, I lived there but that -48 was not easy.. skin burns quickly,, in seconds you feel the pain.. car tires did not thaw out so the cars were driving with flat spots on the tires .. but after that it was back to -15 or -25.. not so bad
My father was born here and he's Chinese. It was surreal to visit town in 2011.
how? can you share the backstory
Italian speaking russian. Okay that's a weird experience, especially as you nailed "Dom Kultury" as if you were polish?!
He said "spasibo" (thank you) leaving the bus 6:47 ;)
Lol, he is italian?
@@ptrgr72 Poland is probably the only country where people leaving the bus (lift, train) say 'thank you'.
Russian is taught in many universities in Italy. Usually only to better understand and analyze the classics of russian literature.
Benjamin (bald and bankrupt) just recommended your Chanel. Amazing content!
Step one: secure the keys
I want to say that I've seen towns like these but those were in winter this is supposed to be summer there. Can't imagine how winter would be.
not winter if its the most northern. its gettin ng colder now
Frankly, I'm amazed there is still so many living there :o Can't believe it gets to +30deg celsius in summer if there's permafrost :o