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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of extreme northeast Russia above the Arctic Circle. It was founded in 1932 to accommodate extensive penal-labor camps. The camps were reportedly closed after the death of Stalin in 1953.
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- proper noun A
coal mining town in theKomi Republic, Russia, situated just north of theArctic Circle .
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Examples
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Life in Vorkuta is so bleak and subsidy-dependent that the government and the World Bank are offering residents money to move so the authorities can, literally, turn out the lights.
Club Gulag: For that Real Prison Camp Experience | Impact Lab 2006
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Camp survivors, some of whom still live in Vorkuta, have condemned his idea.
Club Gulag: For that Real Prison Camp Experience | Impact Lab 2006
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In a coal mine in Vorkuta, a woman asked for a car; he gave her one.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Once you accept that principle, Dachau and Vorkuta are inevitable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Robeson, “Let My People Go” 2010
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In a coal mine in Vorkuta, a woman asked for a car; he gave her one.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Once you accept that principle, Dachau and Vorkuta are inevitable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Robeson, “Let My People Go” 2010
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In a coal mine in Vorkuta, a woman asked for a car; he gave her one.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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In a coal mine in Vorkuta, a woman asked for a car; he gave her one.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Uncle Volya, arrested five years earlier, had been shot attempting to escape from a camp in Vorkuta.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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Uncle Volya, arrested five years earlier, had been shot attempting to escape from a camp in Vorkuta.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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