Mining explosions, trains into pitch darkness, and brass bands. Welcome to Norilsk.

Television journalist Alexey Pivovarov and his team have launched an interactive website called Norilsk Film, which tells the story of Norilsk, the world’s northernmost major city. Visitors to the site can navigate to key places in the city, as well as explore the premises of Norilsk Nickel, the mining and smelting corporation that is the city’s key industry.

When viewing the city through Norilsk Film, Internet users can adjust camera angles at any location according to two panoramas: summer and winter. In another section of the website, there are images from Instagram uploaded in real time by people living in and visiting Norilsk. Internet users can also read about the city’s history.

Pivovarov’s project has also published three documentary clips from Norilsk Film. The first video shows what it’s like on a cramped mining passenger train. In the mornings, these trains take miners to their work sites. In the evenings, it take them back.

The second video shows an explosion at Norilsk’s “Bear Creek” mine—the only place in the city where open-pit mining is utilized. In the clip, workers set the explosives, discuss between each other their pay stubs, take shelter from the blast, and finally detonate the charges.

The third clip captures a performance by the Kaierkansky children’s brass band at a smelting factory in the Nadezhdinsky plant.