Vorkuta

Vorkuta is a coal mining town in Komi Republic.

Understand

Apartment buildings in Vorkuta.
Bridge in the city park.

Get in

The principal gateway is Vorkuta Airport which have flight connections three times each week with Moscow and Syktyvkar, the capital of Komi Republic.

Train connections are avalible daily from Moscow, taking two nights. Long-distance services with Saint Petersburg and Nizhniy Novgorod are more irregular, usually departing 1-2 times. Regional night trains also link Vorkuta with Pechora and Syktyvkar. During holiday season sporadic services to/from the Black Sea appears, serving mostly domestic tourists.

Get around

See

The Bolshezemelskaja tundra.

Do

Buy

Eat

Drink

  • 🌍 Club Stealth (Ночной клуб Стелс), Tsentralnaya sq., 1, "Cascade" shopping mall, +7 82151 -6-03-03. Largest night club in town, mostly for the young crowd with techno and house music served weekly.

Sleep

  • 🌍 "Vorkuta" hotel (Гостиница "Воркута"), Tsentralnaya sq., 5, +7 (82151) 3-79-95. Check-in: 12:00, check-out: 12:00. RUB2900/RUB4400 per 1/2 person.

Connect

Go next

  • Salekhard. Just across the Ural Mountains and into Asia, the train journey will take you through the remote wilderness to Labytnangi, across the water from Salekhard.



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