A story has gone viral on social media about Zoomers from Moscow and St. Petersburg buying up apartments in the Arctic for the price of a smartphone.

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Vorkuta has become one of the hubs of migration. In Soviet times, it was an important mining town; now, Vorkuta is one of the fastest-declining settlements in Russia. And there's certainly no shortage of housing there.

Dmitry Soshin went to Vorkuta to look for an apartment for the price of a smartphone and to find out whether the mining town has become the capital of Zoomers and IT professionals. And at the same time, we'll see how Vorkuta residents and those living in once-prestigious mining towns, now frequented by those who like to photograph abandoned buildings, live.

Thanks for their help in preparing this episode:
Realtor Yana Zayanchkauskaite: Telegram @zajanchkauskaite
Zakhar Babenko: https://t.me/z1gerrr_fit

Contents:
00:00 Are Zoomers heading north for apartments priced like an iPhone?
02:41 How to get to Vorkuta? Spoiler: it's a long way in winter.
03:41 Dmitry Khilkovsky from Samara bought a one-room apartment for 80,000 rubles!
6:13 A three-room apartment for 370,000 rubles — the story of Alexis Lewinsky from Moscow
7:50 Why Alexis decided not to live in Belgrade
8:23 Dmitry Soshin is eyeing Vorkuta real estate
12:05 From Donetsk to Vorkuta — Elena Sbezhneva's journey
13:55 The mayor promises assistance to small businesses. Is it necessary?
15:50 The pros and cons of living in Vorkuta
17:25 Dmitry Soshin went grocery shopping at the local Magnit store
19:21 High prices, utilities, and worn-out pipes
20:49 Foreign aid: doctors from Benin, Pakistan, and Palestine
22:27 A tour of the semi-abandoned Vorkuta Pentagon
27:05 Karate instructor Ivan Golubets: It's a shame that students are leaving
30:06 Is Vorkuta a dying city?
31:32 How scammers make money by buying apartments
32:13 Can coal save Vorkuta and the mining towns?
33:48 What is "controlled compression"?
34:46 A trip to Vorgashor. Ghost towns of the Vorkuta ring road
38:23 Home alone. What's it like to live alone in a freezing house?
44:57 So why is Vorkuta called the capital of the world?
49:13 A walk around the city with a new Vorkuta resident

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