Russia is to build an ultra-modern city on a frozen island deep inside the Arctic Circle.
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 30C in winter.
"This city will be of strategic importance as Russia's northern outpost," said architect Valery Rzhevskiy who has shown its modernistic designs to an approving Vladimir Putin.
All will enjoy a luxury lifestyle in the cocoon with its own specially regulated temperateclimate - including many facilities to make inhabitants of other cities envious.
"We aim to have scientific laboratories, houses, but also parks with attractions, hotels and a cathedral. Naturally there will be schools, kindergartens, recreation zones, a hospital, and sport facilities are planned, too, "said Rzhevskiy.
The extraordinaryventure - nicknamed 'wonder city' - will be built at a cost of up to £4 billion on the remote island of Kotelniy, in the Novosibirsk archipelago , some 1,000 miles from the North Pole, closer than any other Russian city.
The Umka designs are based on the International Space Station, but it is vast by comparison - just short of one mile long and 800 yards wide.
"So far it's the only project in the world with an artificialclimate and integral life support - just like on the space station. Not only is it a new word in architecture, but in human living too. We have used aero and space technologies while creating it."
Electricity will be supplied by a floating nuclear power station. Food wise, it will be totally self-sufficient with fish and poultry farms, greenhouses, a wheat processing factory and bakeries.
There will not be any rubbish at all, as the city will have two factories converting all kinds into ashes.
It will house workers for local mines and oil platforms which should pay the costs of the development, it is claimed.




据英国《每日邮报》10月24日报道，俄罗斯准备在深入北极圈内的冻土岛屿上建立一座超现代化城市。
该城市命名为乌姆卡，源自于罗斯经典动画里的一只很受欢迎的小北极熊的卡通形象。最初的5千名居民将会居住在一个巨大的圆形屋顶下。该屋顶能保护他们远离冬季低于零下30度的酷寒。

建筑师瓦列里-雷热夫斯基说："作为俄罗斯的北极前哨，这座城市将极具战略意义"， 他向弗拉基米尔-普京（俄罗斯现任总理）展示了他的这一现代化的设计并得到了首肯。

所有人都能在一个类似巨茧的建筑内享受奢侈舒适的生活方式。该城市自带专门的温控系统，还建有许多羡煞旁人的基础设施。

雷热夫斯基说："我们不但计划建造科学实验室、住宅，还将建造公园景点、酒店和一座大教堂。自然也会设有学校、幼儿园、娱乐区、医院和运动设施。"

这座绰号为"奇幻城市"的非凡建筑造价高达4亿英镑，将建在位于新西伯利亚群岛的偏远岛屿科捷内岛上。该岛距离北极约1千英里，比俄罗斯任何其他城市都靠近北极。

乌姆卡的设计是基于国际空间站之上的，但是相比之下它更为巨大。长仅比空间站短了一英里，宽达到了800码。

"到目前为止，它就像空间站一样，是世界上唯一具有人工气候和整套生命保障系统的工程项目。它不仅是建筑学上的一个新名词，也是人类生存史的新名词。我们在建造中已经利用了航空航天技术。"

浮动核电站将为城市提供电力。家禽养殖场、温室大棚、小麦加工厂和面包厂将保证食物的自给自足。

城市里建有两家垃圾处理厂能使城市一尘不染。

报道称该城市将成为当地矿工和石油工作者的居住基地，它是谋求发展所应支付的代价。

• frozen [´frəuzn] freeze 的过去分词 (初中英语单词)
• soviet [´səuviit] a.苏联的 n.苏维埃 (初中英语单词)
• luxury [´lʌkʃəri] n.奢侈(品)；享受 (初中英语单词)
• climate [´klaimit] n.气候；特殊气候地带 (初中英语单词)
• scientific [,saiən´tifik] a.科学(上)的 (初中英语单词)
• cathedral [kə´θi:drəl] n.大教堂 (初中英语单词)
• extraordinary [ik´strɔ:dinəri] a.非常的；额外的 (初中英语单词)
• venture [´ventʃə] n.投机 v.冒险；敢于 (初中英语单词)
• remote [ri´məut] a.遥远的；偏僻的 (初中英语单词)
• international [,intə´næʃənəl] a.国际的，世界的 (初中英语单词)
• comparison [kəm´pærisən] n.比较；对照；比喻 (初中英语单词)
• project [prə´dʒekt, ´prɔdʒekt] v.设计；投掷 n.计划 (初中英语单词)
• artificial [,ɑ:ti´fiʃəl] a.人工的；模拟的 (初中英语单词)
• arctic [´ɑ:ktik] a.北极的 (高中英语单词)
• initial [i´niʃəl] a.最初的 n.首字母 (高中英语单词)
• architect [´ɑ:kitekt] n.建筑师 (高中英语单词)
• specially [´speʃəli] ad.专门地；特别地 (高中英语单词)
• temperate [´tempərit] a.有节制的；温和的 (高中英语单词)
• recreation [,rekri´eiʃən] n.消遣；休养 (高中英语单词)
• billion [´biljən] num.万亿 (高中英语单词)
• architecture [´ɑ:kitektʃə] n.建筑术；建筑学 (高中英语单词)
• poultry [´pəultri] n.&v.家禽 (高中英语单词)
• totally [´təutəli] ad.统统，完全 (英语四级单词)
• rubbish [´rʌbiʃ] n.垃圾；碎屑；废话 (英语四级单词)
• cartoon [kɑ:´tu:n] n.漫画；(电影)卡通片 (英语六级单词)