In the 1930s and 40s, the Soviet Union launched a desperate search for oil in the Arctic, a gamble that would shape the fate of the USSR and its economy. Lucas and Luna explore the expeditions led by geologist Nikolai Tikhonovich, the secret camps of Vorkuta and Ukhta, the Gulag labor that built the Pechora coal basin, and the role of the Arctic in Stalin's Five-Year Plans. They discuss the strategic dreams of a short sea route to the Pacific, the bitter reality of permafrost, and the unlikely city of Vorkuta that rose from the tundra. Along the way, they touch on the Chelyuskin rescue, the Northern Sea Route, and the enduring myth of Soviet Arctic conquest. A story of ambition, suffering, and frozen irony—where the state's greatest industrial push met the harshest environment on earth.
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