Norilsk

"It's a landscape out of a science fiction film. Mile after mile of industrial plants, some of it rusting and discarded, but most of it operating as is evident from the trails of smoke rising from countless chimney stacks. Ore-dressing plants, smelters, refineries, power stations and goodness knows what. I try and do a quick count of the bigger complexes but give up when I realise there are far more here than Norilsk Nickel officially lists. Between them run pipes, elevated slurry chutes, power lines and railway tracks. Lakes of ominously dark liquid lie all around"
- Andy Home, "Siberian Dreams"

[photo by Windle Pons]