Norilsk is an industrial closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km (56 mi) east of the Yenisey River and 1,500 km (930 mi) north of Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk is 300 km (190 mi) 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 Krasnoyarsk Krai, after the administrative centre, Krasnoyarsk. It is the world's northernmost city with more than 175,000 inhabitants, and the second-largest city (after Murmansk) inside the Arctic Circle. Norilsk and Yakutsk are the only large cities in the continuous permafrost zone.
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Norilsk is located atop some of the largest nickel deposits on Earth. Consequently, mining and smelting ore are the major industries. Norilsk is the center of a region where nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium, and coal are mined. The presence of mineral deposits in the Siberian Craton was known for two centuries before Norilsk was founded, but large-scale industrial mining only began after the Soviet Council of People's Commissars approved the construction of Norilsk Plant in 1935, which was completed by 1939.
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