Norilsk

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Norilsk

Total population

176,735

Coordinates69.35°, 88.20°

Demographic figures from Rosstat. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Norilsk is an industrial closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km (56 mi) east of the Yenisey River and 1,500 km (930 mi) north of Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk is 300 km (190 mi) north of the Arctic Circle and 2,400 km from the North Pole. It has a permanent population of 176,735 as of 2024, and up to 220,000 including temporary inhabitants. It is the second-largest city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, after the administrative centre, Krasnoyarsk. It is the world's northernmost city with more than 175,000 inhabitants, and the second-largest city inside the Arctic Circle. Norilsk and Yakutsk are the only large cities in the continuous permafrost zone.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Nadya Tolokonnikova

Russian political activist and musician

Dmitri Torbinski

Russian footballer

Sergey Smagin

Russian chess grandmaster

V

Valeri Melnikov

politician (1956-2008)

Kateryna Buzhynska

Ukrainian singer

J

Jurijs Aleksejevs

Latvian journalist, politician

Aleksandr Auzan

Soviet economist

Leonid Ilyichov

Soviet swimmer

Hanna Kazyuchyts

Belarusian actress

A. I. Novikov

Russian writer

O

Oleg Orekhovsky

Russian ice hockey player

D

Dmitry Suslin

Russian writer and children's writer

Andrey Tveryankin

Russian association football player

Roza Khayrullina

Russian actress

L

Lyudmila Chernova

Soviet-Russian sprinter

Vladimir Shmaly

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Krasnoyarsk Krai

• Dudinka
  49.5 mi away · pop. 19,473
• Igarka
  137.5 mi away · pop. 3,468
• Turukhansk
  245.8 mi away · pop. 4,662
• Tura
  477.9 mi away · pop. 5,362
• Severo-Yeniseysky
  635.7 mi away · pop. 6,747
• Yeniseysk
  762.2 mi away · pop. 17,999
• Lesosibirsk
  780 mi away · pop. 59,642
• Strelka
  792 mi away · pop. 4,792
• Motygino
  795.8 mi away · pop. 5,323
• Boguchany
  806.4 mi away · pop. 11,275
• Kodinsk
  811 mi away · pop. 16,312
• Kazachinskoye
  819.6 mi away · pop. 3,627

Browse all places in Krasnoyarsk Krai →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Willow Tit

Poecile montanus

Seen 2026-09-28

common toadflax

Linaria vulgaris

Seen 2026-08-10

Net-leaved Willow

Salix reticulata

Seen 2026-08-10

Northern Pink

Dianthus repens

Seen 2026-08-03

Eight-petal Mountain-Avens

Dryas octopetala

Seen 2026-08-03

Tilesius Wormwood

Artemisia tilesii

Seen 2026-07-21

Tripleurospermum hookeri

Tripleurospermum hookeri

Seen 2026-07-21

Gmelin’s vetchling

Lathyrus gmelinii

Seen 2026-07-16

northern redcurrant

Ribes triste

Seen 2025-08-21

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).