Water pipeline near Dolgoe lake in Norilsk.
Norilsk is the world’s northernmost city with 150,000 inhabitants and is the second largest city (after Murmansk) inside the Arctic Circle.
It is one of the only three large cities situated in the continuous permafrost zone. It is also the most polluted city in Russia because of many ecological issues (air pollution, acid rain, smog, discharge of polluted water) due to the mining and metallurgical plants owned by Norilsk Nickel.
On the 29th of May 21000 tonnes of diesel fuel from the tank N3 of Norilsk Nickel power plant spilled into the Daldikan creek in Norilsk city.