June 12 - 19
7 nights, 8 days
Minimum 4 people
2200 euros

Included:
- Two nights in a hotel in Salekhard and Vorkuta
- Stay with the Komi
- Train tickets
- Local guide with 4x4 transportation all the time
- Guide in Italian
- Daily meals.

Not included:
- Flight Italy-Salekhard-Italy (about 700 euros return)
- The visa for Russia (145 euros)
- Restaurants in Salekhard and Vorkuta



1 day
Arrival in Salekhard on June 12 (with the flight from Italy on June 11), meeting at the airport. Hotel accommodation. Walk in the city, visit the museum with the exhibition of mammoths.

Day 2
After breakfast we leave for the tundra.
Stop in the Polyarny village at the time geologists lived here but it is now abandoned. Tea and snacks will be waiting for us. Reportage in the village. After that we continue on to the tundra. Arrival at the lake where the nomadic people Komi are living. We will arrive already in the evening. We will prepare our base camp.

Days 3, 4
Life in chum. Photo reportage to the daily life of the Komi. We go out fishing with them, we will make small treks around the lake and in the nearby hills. We choose one day to go to the malybdenum mine, which was part of the Gulag system.

5th day
Day of traveling. Train to Vorkuta, hotel accommodation in the evening.

Days 6-7
Guided tour of a semi-abandoned mining town. Reportage for the city. Friendships with the locals.

Day 8
Transfer to the airport, departure from Vorkuta to Moscow.

Note.

Vorkuta is located on the western slopes of the Polar Urals (therefore, the city is geographically located in Europe), on the Vorkuta River about 150 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle and only 180 kilometers from the coast of the Arctic Ocean. It is located in the permafrost area.

Vorkuta - is a city with about 54 000 inhabitants located above the Arctic circle stands on the river of the same name. 180 meters above sea level. Vorkuta is a city that is part of the Komi Republic. The name of the city translates from the German "full of bears" (vark - bear).

The history of Vorkuta begins in 1936 when "the stone of fire", that is a coal, was discovered.

Its maximum power Vorkuta has had since November 1943 when the inhabitants were 100 thousand.

In the late 1930s - early 1950s, Vorkutlag, one of the largest fields in the Gulag, was located in Vorkutlag (until 1938, Ukhtpechlag). At the height of his number, in early 1951, 73 thousand people were his prisoners. In 1953 the revolt of Vorkuta took place, one of the largest in the USSR. After the reorganization of the Gulag, the institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs continued to work in Vorkuta. Furthermore, the city remained a place of exile until the 1980s.

With the economic crisis in Russia most of the mines have been closed.
Vorkuta is the leading city in the Komi Republic in terms of population reduction, as well as the city that dies faster in Russia.

Until 2011, there was no road to the city. The only way to get to Vorkuta by car was to stop in Ukhta (Sosnogorsk, about 680 km from Vorkuta) and load the cars on the railway platform. However, in 2010, in connection with the construction of a gas pipeline from the Yamal Peninsula, the need for its maintenance arose, which led to the appearance of a winter road. However, it can only be driven with prepared off-road equipment.