At sunset, when the lights come on at the Sabetta plant, it looks almost like a small city—which in a way it is.
Photograph by Charles XelotIn 2016 welders were finishing work on the metal wall of a tank that can hold 160,000 cubic meters of LNG at minus 160 degrees C (minus 256 degrees F).
Photograph by Charles XelotWorkers live in several villages at Sabetta. The plant stays open year-round, shipping LNG from its ice-bound port.
Photograph by Charles XelotThe Russian Orthodox church at Sabetta was blessed in 2015 by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
Photograph by Charles Xelot