A social media user, Evgeny Belikov, claimed to have worked at the Nadezhdinsky plant, saying workers referred to a reservoir connected to it as the “red sea,” adding that it was named as such due to its color, which is produced by ore runoff, ABC News reported.
“In winter, the snow’s also red,” Belikov wrote. “On the one hand, it’s beautiful, but on the other, it’s chemical.”
Norilsk is considered the world’s northernmost city with more than 100,000 residents.
Pollution in the city is a major problem. The Blacksmith Institute named Norilsk as one of the top ten most polluted cities on earth. The Russian Federal State Statistics Service also named the city the most polluted in Russia
