Norilsk (rus)

Norilsk

Norilsk ranks 5,447th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Chaumont, Haute-Marne, Bad Segeberg, and Andechs. The most famous people from Norilsk are Mikhail Popkov, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Dmitri Torbinski. The most famous people who died in Norilsk are Yevgeny Zinichev. Norilsk has been the birth place of many extremists, and writers and the death place of many politicians. Norilsk is located in Russia.

Norilsk is an industrial closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km east of the Yenisey River and 1,500 km north of Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk is 300 km north of the Arctic Circle and 2,400 km from the North Pole. It has a permanent population of 176,735 as of 2024, and up to 220,000 including temporary inhabitants. It is the second-largest city in the region after Krasnoyarsk. Since 2016, Norilsk's population has grown steadily. In 2017, for the first time, migration to the city exceeded outflow. In 2018, according to Krasnoyarskstat, natural population growth amounted to 1,357 people: 2,381 were born, and 1,024 died. Read more on Wikipedia