Photos: Inside Russia's deep frozen ghost towns
An inside view from snow and ice covered abandoned building in Sementnozavodsky region, 19 kilometers from coal-mining town Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia on March 1.
A staircase is frozen inside an abandoned building in the village of Severny.
An aerial view shows frozen equipment at a construction site in the coal-mining town Vorkuta.
A room inside an abandoned building in a village near the coal-mining town of Vorkuta.
This photo was taken in the village of Severny. Passer says some people still live in this building.
This photo of an icicle-covered lamp was taken in the village of Cementozavodsky.
The town of Vorkuta was an infamous Gulag labor camp from the 1930s to 1960s, with prisoners forced to mine the region for coal. Now it's almost completely abandoned.