Russia
NW Russia
Komi Republic

Vorkuta

Vorkuta is a coal-mining town in the of Russia, situated just north of the Arctic Circle in the Pechora coal basin, at the river Vorkuta.
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  • Type: City with 56,100 residents
  • Description: town in the Komi Republic, Russia
  • Also known as: “Vorcuta” and “Vörkuta”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vorkuta Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small airport in the , located 3 km west of Vorkuta. It accommodates small airliners. The pavement length is 2,200 meters; however, it is shortened 300 m due to a displaced threshold.

Vorkuta

Latitude
67.5036° or 67° 30′ 13″ north
Longitude
64.0627° or 64° 3′ 46″ east
Population
56,100
Elevation
174 metres (571 feet)
IATA airport code
VKT
United Nations Location Code
RU VKT
Open location code
9JV6G337+C3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 34506389
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1486910
Wiki­data ID
Q133529
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Vorkuta” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فوركوتا”
  • Armenian: “Վորկուտա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vorkuta”
  • Basque: “Vorkuta”
  • Belarusian: “Варкута”
  • Bengali: “ভার্কুতা”
  • Bulgarian: “Воркута”
  • Catalan: “Vorkutà”
  • Cebuano: “Vorkuta”
  • Chechen: “Воркута”
  • Chinese: “Vorkuta”
  • Chinese: “沃尔库塔”
  • Chinese: “沃爾庫塔”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Vorkuta”
  • Croatian: “Vorkuta”
  • Czech: “Vorkuta”
  • Danish: “Vorkuta”
  • Dutch: “Vorkoeta”
  • Eastern Mari: “Воркута”
  • Erzya: “Воркута ош”
  • Esperanto: “Vorkuta”
  • Esperanto: “Vorkuto”
  • Estonian: “Vorkuta”
  • Finnish: “Vorkuta”
  • French: “Vorkouta”
  • German: “Workuta”
  • German: “Wörkuta”
  • Greek: “Βαρκουτά”
  • Greek: “Βορκουτά”
  • Gujarati: “વોર્કુટા”
  • Hebrew: “וורקוטה”
  • Hindi: “वोरकुटा”
  • Hindi: “वोर्कुता”
  • Hungarian: “Vorkuta”
  • Indonesian: “Vorkuta”
  • Italian: “Vorkuta”
  • Japanese: “ヴォルクタ”
  • Kalmyk: “Воркута балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ವೊರ್ಕುಟ”
  • Kirghiz: “Воркута”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Вöркута”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Вӧркута каркытш”
  • Komi: “Вӧркута”
  • Korean: “보르쿠타”
  • Ladin: “Vorkuta”
  • Latin: “Vorcuta”
  • Latvian: “Vorkuta”
  • Lithuanian: “Vorkuta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Workuta”
  • Malay: “Vorkuta”
  • Malayalam: “വോർകുട”
  • Marathi: “वोरकुटा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vorkuta”
  • Moksha: “Воркута”
  • Northern Frisian: “Workuta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vorkuta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vorkuta”
  • Norwegian: “Vorkuta”
  • Ossetian: “Воркута”
  • Persian: “وورکوتا”
  • Polish: “Workuta”
  • Portuguese: “Vorkuta”
  • Romanian: “Vorkuta”
  • Russian: “Воркута”
  • Scots: “Vorkuta”
  • Serbian: “Воркута”
  • Sinhala: “වොර්කුටා”
  • Slovenian: “Vorkuta”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وورکوتا”
  • Spanish: “Vorkuta”
  • Spanish: “Vorkutá”
  • Swedish: “Vorkuta”
  • Tagalog: “Vorkuta”
  • Tajik: “Воркута”
  • Tajik: “Пойгоҳ Низомй вркуто суитски”
  • Talysh: “Vorkuta”
  • Tamil: “வோர்குட”
  • Tatar: “Воркута”
  • Telugu: “వోర్కుతా”
  • Thai: “วอร์คูตา”
  • Turkish: “Vorkuta”
  • Udmurt: “Воркута”
  • Ukrainian: “Воркута”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Workuta”
  • Urdu: “ورکوتا”
  • Uzbek: “Vorkuta”
  • Veps: “Vorkut”
  • Vietnamese: “Vorkuta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vorkuta”
  • Western Panjabi: “وورکوتا”
  • Wu Chinese: “沃尔库塔”

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