Khalmer-Yu

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Khalmer-Yu[https://web.archive.org/web/20100125174742/http://halmer-u.info/ Khalmer-Yu portal] for former residents ({{langx|ru|Хальмер-Ю}}, {{langx|yrk|Хальмер'ю}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nen-ru.info/word.php?word=%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80&action=1|title=Ненецко-русский словарь.|author=Терещенко Н. М.|website=|date=2008|publisher=«Просвещение»}}{{dead link|bot=InternetArchiveBot|date=August 2023}}) is a ghost town, a former urban-type settlement in Komi Republic, Russia, disestablished in 1995. Its main occupation was coal mining of high-quality coke coal in Pechora coal basin. It was administered by Gornyatsky district council of Vorkuta.[http://www.halmer-u.narod.ru/halmer-u/p132.htm "Valley of Life (about Khalmer-Yu settlement)"], archived article from a June 1983 issue of Zapolyarye ("Trans-Arctic Cycle") from article cycle dedicated to 40th anniversary of Vorkuta

File:Khalmer-Yu ruins.jpg

It was named after the {{ill|Khalmer'yu River, Komi|lt=Khalmer'yu River|ru|Хальмеръю (приток Силоваяхи)}}. The name is translated from Nenets language as "River in the Death Valley", because the place was used a burial grounds by the indigenous population.

Coal in the area was discovered in the early 1940s. Industrial mining started in 1957. Initially the settlement, together with the surrounding coal fields belonged to Nenets Autonomous Okrug. However mining was carried out by Vorkutugol (Воркутуголь, "Vorkutcoal") combine. Therefore, eventually was transferred to Komi ASSR in November 1959.[http://www.agiks.ru/patterns/PP-7/current/vorkuta.htm "Историческая справка. МО ГО "Воркута""] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810065148/http://www.agiks.ru/patterns/PP-7/current/vorkuta.htm |date=2014-08-10 }} (retrieved August 3, 2004)

In 1993 it was decided to shut down mining operations[http://halmer-u.narod.ru/halmer-u/p133.htmПостановление № 1351 «О ликвидации шахты „Хальмер-Ю“ производственного объединения „Воркутауголь“ и мерах социальной защиты населения поселка Хальмер-Ю Республики Коми» ] and to liquidate the settlement by 1995.В. И. Ильина [http://www.ecsoc.ru/db/msg/9902/contents Власть и уголь: шахтерское движение Воркуты (1989—1998 годы)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415055953/http://www.ecsoc.ru/db/msg/9902/contents |date=2014-04-15 }}, Syktyvkar, Syktyvkar State University, 1998. The last settlements were forcibly removed with the help of OMON.[http://halmer-u.narod.ru/halmer-u/p131.htm Закрытие “Хальмер-Ю”], Chapter 5 from the book: {{ill|Vladimir Ilyin (sociologist)|lt=Vladimir Ilyin|ru|Ильин, Владимир Иванович}}, Власть и уголь: шахтерское движение Воркуты (1989 - 1998 годы)

In the early 2000s it became part of a military proving ground Pemboy (Пембой) as a result of the restoration of the aviation proving ground Khalmer-Yu which existed since the 1960s 15–20 km northeast of the settlement.[http://www.halmer-u.narod.ru/halmer-u/p134.htm An official answer of military to a citizen's request about the shooting range], an image of the letter[http://www.lenta.ru/articles/2005/08/17/putin/ Игра в запуски. Lenta.ru][http://www.russianla.com/common/arc/story.php?id_cr=101&id=214433 Бомбардировщики Ту-160 с Путиным обстреляли дом культуры в посёлке Хальмер-Ю][http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=938152&938152 Учения Стратегических ядерных сил. 20.10.2012][https://archive.today/20121209122315/http://lelik1970.livejournal.com/4259.html lelik1970 - "Панцири" в Воркуте]