The city will cost up to £4 billion and be built on the remote island of Kotelniy, in the Novosibirsk archipelago, some 1,000 miles from the North Pole. [Agencies]

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Russia will build an ultra-modern city -- nicknamed the "wonder city" -- on a frozen island deep inside the Arctic Circle, in the Kremlin's latest move to back its claim to vast oil and gas reserves under the polar ice cap, the Daily Mail reported.

Named Umka, after a popular Soviet polar bear cub cartoon hero, the initial 5,000 residents will live under a vast dome to protect themselves from temperatures sinking below minus 30 degrees C in winter.

"This city will be of strategic importance as Russia's northern outpost," said architect Valery Rzhevskiy who showed the city's futuristic designs to an approving Vladimir Putin.

It will be built at a cost of up to 4 billion pounds on the remote island of Kotelniy, in the Novosibirsk archipelago. （点击《每日邮报》查看原文）

俄欲在北极建“奇幻城市”

       据英国《每日邮报》报道，俄罗斯将在北极圈附近修建一个超现代的“奇幻城市”，以宣示对北极丰富油气资源的主权。

       根据苏联时期一个颇流行的北极熊幼崽的卡通形象，这个城市被命名为“乌姆卡”。根据设计方案，城市可容纳5000名市民，配有专门的温度调节设施，以保护市民免于城外零下30℃低温的伤害。

       这座城市的设计者、建筑师瓦莱里·尔热夫斯基表示他的设计方案已经获得了普京的许可，“作为俄罗斯的北极前哨，这座城市将极具战略意义。”

       建造这座城市将耗资40亿英镑（约408亿元人民币），它将位于新西伯利亚群岛上偏远的Kotelniy岛。

(China.org.cn October 27, 2011)