The Real Vorkuta - Rare Footage of Life Inside the Soviet Union's Gulag City (1991)

On 17 September 1991, ITN visited the Soviet city of Vorkuta. North of the Arctic Circle, the coal mining city's grim beginnings lay in the establishment of Vorkutlag, the Soviet Union's notorious forced labour camp, in 1932. Vorkutlag formed part of the broader Gulag system of the USSR, and was the largest of the forced labour camps in European Russia. ITN's cameras captured the city's unique experience of the disintegration of the Soviet Union. One of the most visible signs of change was the number of people leaving, the city having originally been populated through forced relocations of prisoners condemned to forced labour in Arctic isolation. In the decades since the USSR's end, more than half of Vorkuta's inhabitants have left. #Vorkuta #Vorkutlag #Gulag #SovietUnion #USSR #Soviet #SovietWave #Soviets #SovietRussia #ArcticCircle #Russia #1991 #1990s #Communism #Communist #Communists #ArchiveFootage To license the footage featured in this clip, follow the link below: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/search/2/film?phrase=R170991001*&sort=best&license=rf%2Crr To search the ITN Archive collection on Getty Images, follow the link below: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/footage/itn 🎥 Subscribe to our YouTube channel (tap the bell icon and stay up to date with all the latest ITN Archive videos!) - https://www.youtube.com/@ITNArchive 🎥 Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ITNArchive 🎥 Like us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ITNArchiveITNP 🎥 Check out our TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@itnarchive1955