Paste these coordinates in Google Maps: 69.7405731, 171.8593084 Again, hold the shift key to tilt your view if you want, and be sure to expand the Explore imagery button at the bottom right.
Here we find a community built on a mountain above the arctic circle. There is no wood, no peat, no coal, oil, nor heat. But there is uranium in these hills, gold, tin, and other metals.
There’s really nothing good to say about this. Thousands of people died here, and for many reasons. One being that they were trying to survive in stone buildings built atop mountains in permafrost.
For more info, see Gulag of Chukotka, Russia (azattyk.org)
Tags: Government, Geology, Geography, I Have The High Ground Anakin