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. （點擊《每日郵報》查看原文）

俄欲在北極建“奇幻城市”

???????據英國《每日郵報》報道，俄羅斯將在北極圈附近修建一個超現代的“奇幻城市”，以宣示對北極豐富油氣資源的主權。

???????根據蘇聯時期一個頗流行的北極熊幼崽的卡通形象，這個城市被命名為“烏姆卡”。根據設計方案，城市可容納5000名市民，配有專門的溫度調節設施，以保護市民免于城外零下30℃低溫的傷害。

???????這座城市的設計者、建筑師瓦萊里·爾熱夫斯基表示他的設計方案已經獲得了普京的許可，“作為俄羅斯的北極前哨，這座城市將極具戰略意義。”

???????建造這座城市將耗資40億英鎊（約408億元人民幣），它將位于新西伯利亞群島上偏遠的Kotelniy島。

(China.org.cn October 27, 2011)