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Self proclaimed ‘environmentalist’ Leonardo DiCaprio ringed in the new year on a $150 million superyacht with a group of models – The vessel releases more greenhouse gases than 1,500 cars combined.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Seen Living It Up with Friends on a Yacht in St. Bart's During New Year's Vacation

Leonardo DiCaprio was photographed with four friends aboard a yacht off the coast of St. Bart's on Monday

Leonardo DiCaprio is ringing in the New Year overseas.

The Oscar winner was spotted on a yacht off the island of Saint Barthélemy onMonday, surrounded by friends.

In photos taken of the Caribbean excursion, a shirtless DiCaprio, 48, is seen taking in the sights from onboard the vessel alongside four other individuals.

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After DiCaprio parted ways with ex-girlfriend Camila Morrone in August after more than four years together, the actor was seen spending time with Gigi Hadid .

In September, a source told PEOPLE that DiCaprio "is taken with Gigi." They explained that the supermodel, 27, "is the type of woman he is usually attracted to" and said that "they sort of run in the same high-profile circles and would see each other at events , clubs, restaurants and gatherings."

DiCaprio and Hadid were last seen together in New York City in November, when they were spotted leaving the same restaurant .

Late last month, DiCaprio and actress Victoria Lamas were seen leaving The Birds Streets Club on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, separately, before they entered a car together.

A source told PEOPLE they were leaving a "big group dinner," adding, "They were also joined by a number of other people in the car."

After the Titanic actor was spotted with the 23-year-old actress in late December, her dad, Lorenzo Lamas , told the New York Post that she is "very smitten."

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Lorenzo, 64, added of his daughter and DiCaprio, "I know she likes him very much. I think they met last month. I'm not sure of the circumstances, but that's what she told me."

He also noted that he offered Victoria some fatherly advice.

"I told her to treat the relationship like a holiday — just enjoy it as much as you can for as long as it lasts," Lorenzo said. "And if it lasts for more than a typical holiday, great. But if not, then just guard your heart, you know? Because she's very young."

According to Lorenzo, however, things between the pair are not serious .

He expressed to the Post , "She's fond of him, obviously. But they're not dating, and she does not want that out there because that would be really bad. It'd be embarrassing for her if he should happen to read something that said that they're dating and they're not."

Leonardo DiCaprio Parties With Models On Yacht In St Barts Amid Gigi Hadid Dating Rumors

Leonardo was spotted chilling on a yacht in St. Barts on New Year's Eve with Tobey Maguire, Drake and a group of gorgeous models to ring in the new year!

Leonardo DiCaprio enjoyed his New Year’s Eve on a yacht in St. Barts alongside his A-list buddies and a slew of models. The Oscar winner, 48, was spotted hanging out in the gorgeous waters with his BFF Tobey Maguire , Drake and one of the cover girls, Madison Headrick , who is Leo’s friend Joe Nahmad’s fianceé. Leonardo kept a low-key figure in a baseball hat and tee while he lunched next to Madison, who also rocked a baseball cap, plus a striped bikini top, as seen in photos here from DailyMail .

The yacht party comes after Leo was spotted with Victoria Lamas recently over the holidays. Last week, they were seen exiting celeb hotspot The Birds Street Club in West Hollywood and getting into a car together. Of course, the sightings have speculated romance rumors, which comes shortly after the rumors of Leo and Gigi Hadid being an item , after the pair were seen  leaving the same New York restaurant  on Nov. 18.

While many believe the NYE holiday should be celebrated with a someone to kiss at midnight, Leo’s NYE spent without Gigi certainly raised a few eyebrows. However, a source EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife that the actor and the supermodel are just “casually dating” and nothing has changed between them. “Leo is single.  Nothing has changed with  Gigi . They are casually seeing each other but there is nothing serious going on between them at all,” an insider close to Leo revealed.

Another source added EXCLUSIVELY that ” Gigi knows that Leo and Victoria were out with a bunch of friends which, of course, is completely fine with her.” The insider continued, “Although this wasn’t a romantic outing, Gigi has no opinion one way or another even if Leo does decide he wants to date other people. Her and Leo were never in a serious relationship to begin with, and they had no commitments to each other.”

HollywoodLife will keep you posted on the latest updates to Leo, Gigi and Victoria’s love lives. Stay tuned!

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Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted spending the holiday weekend with multiple bikini-clad women on a yacht in St. Barts.

Photos surfaced Monday of DiCaprio wearing a blue bathing suit while soaking up some sun on the yacht.

The "Titanic" actor was photographed alongside multiple women. DiCaprio's friend Joe Nahmad's fiancée Madison Headrick was identified as one of the models.

Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted enjoying the New Year holiday on a yacht in St. Barts with several women. (MEGA)

Leonardo DiCaprio enjoyed a swim after chatting with multiple women aboard the yacht. (MEGA)

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Leonardo DiCaprio was recently romantically linked to actor Lorenzo Lamas' 23-year-old daughter Victoria Lamas (not pictured). (MEGA)

Leonardo DiCaprio was joined by other friends as well. (MEGA)

Recently, DiCaprio, 48, sparked romance rumors with actor Lorenzo Lamas' 23-year-old daughter Victoria Lamas.

"I know she likes him very much," Lorenzo told the New York Post . "I think they met last month. I’m not sure of the circumstances, but that’s what she told me."

DiCaprio became a single man once again in August after ending a four-year relationship with actress Camila Morrone . Victoria and DiCaprio were spotted leaving a Hollywood hotspot together on Dec. 20.

"She’s very smitten," Lorenzo said. "I told her to treat the relationship like a holiday – just enjoy it as much as you can for as long as it lasts. And if it lasts for more than a typical holiday, great. But if not, then just guard your heart, you know? Because she’s very young."

The "Renegade" actor joked, "I just told her, you know, absolutely no transatlantic cruises with Leo. Anyway, I’m excited for her. I know that it’s been a while since she’s had a serious relationship.… She’s got a big heart, and she tends to give it freely."

Victoria is one of Lamas' three daughters with ex-wife, Playboy playmate Shauna Sand. The couple divorced in 2002.

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Leonardo DiCaprio and ex-girlfriend Camila Morrone attend a match in 2018 in Paris, France. (Getty Images)

DiCaprio has also been linked to model Gigi Hadid since he ended his relationship with Morrone.

Morrone previously opened up about the age difference between her and DiCaprio during an interview in 2019.

"There’s so many relationships in Hollywood – and in the history of the world – where people have large age gaps," the actress told the Los Angeles Times. "I just think anyone should be able to date who they want to date."

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Victoria Lamas were spotted ringing in 2023 together in St. Barts.

The “Titanic” star, 48, and his rumored new flame , 23, were partying on a yacht in celebration of New Year’s Eve, a source tells Page Six, fueling even more romance rumors.

Despite insiders previously claiming the two were just friends, this marks their fourth hang out in less than a month.

DiCaprio was dressed casually for the boat bash, rocking a white tee, a gray baseball cap and dark shades.

His pals Drake and Tobey Maguire were also spotted on the luxury vessel Saturday, both dressed casually in plain T-shirts.

DiCaprio and Victoria’s latest hang out comes after  they were spotted grabbing dinner at a restaurant last month.

Her father, actor Lorenzo Lamas, exclusively told The Post that she was “smitten” with the “Wolf of Wall Street” actor.

“I know she likes him very much,” Lorenzo said earlier this week.

“I think they met last month. I’m not sure of the circumstances, but that’s what she told me.”

Although DiCaprio has a well documented  penchant for romancing younger women , a source close to the actor told Page Six at the time of their first sighting that he wasn’t dating the model.

“Both were seated (not next to each other) at a big group dinner,” an insider explained, after photos emerged from the dinner. “They were also joined by a number of other people in the car.”

The “Don’t Look Up” actor, for his part, has been  living his best single life  since  he broke up  with longtime partner Camila Morrone back in August.

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He also recently sparked romance rumors with supermodel Gigi Hadid after the pair  spent time together at a New York Fashion Week party .

The two were also seen  getting cozy at Casa Cipriani  in New York City in November 2022.

“They’ve mostly [been] hanging out with groups and solo a handful of times,” another insider told us at the time.

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King of the world! Leonardo DiCaprio's Titanic New Year party goes on... as a first class passenger aboard $400,000-a-week super yacht (with a gaggle of girls in tow to float his boat)

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Published: 14:12 EDT, 5 January 2015 | Updated: 07:56 EDT, 6 March 2016

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Leonardo DiCaprio was a third class passenger in Titanic - but oh how times have changed.

The 40-year-old Lothario is currently living it up on the Caribbean island of St Barts on a luxury yacht which costs an eye-watering $410,000 a week to hire.

Admittedly, it's just a drop in the ocean for party prince Leo - who is worth $220m. 

After his recent split from his on-off model girlfriend Toni Garrn, the Wolf Of Wall Street actor is enjoying company from a gaggle of stunning women who are staying with him on the yacht. 

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Hard life! Leonardo DiCaprio is having enjoying a decadent New Year break aboard a $400,000-a-week super yacht in St Barts

Drowning in luxury: The Paraffin boat has three tiers - plenty of space for Leo and his entourage of girls

In recent days he has been spotted frolicking on the beach with them, as well as taking them all shopping in the local town to buy swimsuits.

It's like the New Year celebrations never ended because retail therapy and beach parties are just the start of it.

Indeed Leo's mega boat is just as stunning as the company he is keeping.

The party goes on: The actor, seen here on New Year's Day, has been enjoying time on and off the boat, partying on the beach and shopping with his army of female admirers in the local town 

Ahoy there: The Oscar-nominee has chosen to mark the New Year in a billionaire's playground, with the likes of Salma Hayek and her billionaire husband Francois-Henri Pinault also in St Barts

Called the Paraffin, the super ship is currently up for sale for $42m; at 197ft, it is a quarter of the length of the Titanic (882ft) but what it lacks in length it certainly makes up for in luxury.

The three-tier vessel sleeps 12 guests and comes complete with six staterooms, with enough space to house 17 crew members. Facilities include a jacuzzi, swimming platform and gym.

It's also the attention to detail on the design front that separates this yacht from the pack. 

In the master closet, for instance, there are light fittings in the drawers - just in case Leo found rummaging around for his underwear in the dark too much of a task.

Decked out: The Paraffin has a jacuzzi for guests to enjoy while taking in the stunning coastal vistas

Drinks and games: A view of one of the bars onboard and, right, a living room complete with chess board

Attention to detail: The yacht is done out with luxury fittings and furniture; there are even lights in the drawers in the master suite

I want an upgrade: Leo might have famously proclaimed to be 'king of the world' as pauper Jack Dawson aboard the doomed Titanic in his 1997 film of the same name, but these days he really has gone up a few classes when it comes to nautical travel, seen here with co-star Kate Winslet

While most celebs might make do with a trip to Hawaii or Aspen to mark the New Year, Leo is in a class of the super rich and powerful in St Barts.

It's a playground of billionaires where the sickeningly wealthy go to spend their pocket money - and literally drown in luxury beyond compare.

Others enjoying the salubrious surrounds of St Barts include Salma Hayek and her billionaire husband Francois-Henri Pinault. A few days ago they were spotted on the Mia Elise, which charters for $300,000 a week.

On New Year's Eve Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's monstrous yacht - the Eclipse - was also seen sailing around the coast. 

Floating his boat: On Sunday Leo took a gaggle of girls shopping for swimsuits; the actor really is playing the role of playboy prince quite well

Not shy: Leo's lady friend showed off her clothing (including a bikini top) and blonde hair

Big things coming: The five-time Oscar nominee will next appear in The Revenant and Mean Business On North Ganson Street, both tentatively scheduled for 2016 release dates

At 536ft long, Eclipse is the world's second largest private yacht, only surpassed by the recently launched Azzam in April 2013 which is 57ft longer.

Leo's New Year celebration, meanwhile, ended a relatively quiet year for the actor, who has not appeared on-screen since 2013's The Wolf Of Wall Street.

The five times an Oscar nominee has several upcoming film projects, including The Revenant and Mean Business On North Ganson Street, both tentatively scheduled for 2016.

Earlier partying: On New Year's Eve, the mystery blonde was one of several women to attend Leo's celebration on a private island

Plenty of company: The actor was seen frolicking in the water, surrounded by a group of stunning women

Walking the boards: Pictured here on Monday, the DiCaprio shows no signs of ending his New Year celebrations anytime soon

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Learn About Leonard DiCaprio's Yacht: Topaz

When you think about Leonardo DiCaprio, images of an eco-conscious crusader who is out to improve the health of the planet may first emerge. Recent rumors that Leo plans to attend the 2018 World Cup events in Brazil aboard a yacht seem a bit contradictory because of the pollution that these floating luxury hotels churn into the air and water.

While some have criticized him for indulging in a bit of heaven at the expense of the planet, if he wasn't doing it, somebody else would be. At least he's making an attempt to help the situation when he can. All of that aside, we were curious to find out more about Leonardo DiCaprio's Yacht, and here is what we discovered.

Leo doesn't own the yacht

DiCaprio hasn't actually purchased a yacht. Instead, he rented it from owner, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Mansour is a billionaire politician who is the current prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.

The mega yacht was custom built according to his grand and luxurious specifications and named the Topaz. Until recently, the interior of the yacht has remained a well-guarded secret. We've learned some juicy tidbits that we're happy to share.

Specifications of the Topaz

The super yacht measures a total of 453 feet in length with a cost of more than $200 million in USD to build and an estimated value of $678 million. This isn't the biggest yacht that Mr. DiCaprio has chartered, but it's likely to be one of the most luxurious.

The yacht is powered by four M90 diesel engines which generate approximately 48,000 horse power. The ship made its maiden launch in 2012 and according to sources, DiCaprio also rented it in 2014 just 2 years into its service run.

The Topaz is rumored to be one of the most extravagant yachts in the world . It offers smooth sailing with the installation of zero speed stabilizers. It comes fully outfitted with lifts that ferry guests comfortably among the eight deck levels to the host of amenities that are scattered throughout the massive vessel.

It is decked out in full luxury and comfort with a cinema, two hot tubs, air conditioning throughout, three swimming pools, a fitness hall, underwater lights, an ample sized conference room and a well hidden interior design that is left up to our imaginations.

Leonardo DiCaprio's guest list aboard the Topaz

Leo won't be making the trip alone. We've learned that he has a list of guests that will accompany him on thee yacht as he enjoys the football tournament in Brazil.

There were 21 of his friends, all of millionaire status mind you, invited to enjoy the amenities. It's been reported that DiCaprio and his pals hopped a jet and flew to Rio de Janeiro to arrive one day prior to kick off of the Brazil World cup.

The controversy the rental has stirred

While some are happy that Leo had a nice luxury vacation , others are upset about the seeming nose thumb to environmentalists who think his actions are careless.

There has been a degree of judgment and sentiments of disappointment to outright damnation sent his way. Activists point out that Leo's private jet that made thee 8000 mile trip left a hefty carbon footprint. This is besides the emissions put out from the luxury mega yacht. They're citing his actions as not being environmentally responsible.

Why the uproar?

The backlash has come after the fact that DiCaprio made a plea to viewers to work with one another to help fight climate change when he accepted his first ever Oscar award. DiCaprio's involvement in Hollywood environmentalism can't be denied.

He dedicates time to fly here and there to pick up awards for his contributions to help clean up the environment, but when he flies to and fro, his carbon footprint grows.

There has been a volley of insults and comments disapproving of Leo's actions, but isn't this how Hollywood environmentalism works? It's kinda tough to get to Brazil without flying or chartering a boat to take you there.

It's a drama that has been ongoing since Leo's plans were first revealed but it seems that he could at least score a few points for encouraging us all to make some kind of effort.

It's not easy being the center of attention and there are times when best intentions draw a backlash of negativism, despite the fact that most of us rely on some type of carbon emitting transportation resources.

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Leonardo DiCaprio helps save man who fell overboard in the Caribbean

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January 9, 2020 / 7:27 PM EST / CBS News

Leonardo DiCaprio got to play a real-life hero to a man who fell off a yacht in the Caribbean and had to tread water for hours. The Oscar-winning actor, his girlfriend and their friends were on a luxury vessel last week when an emergency call went out asking for help looking for the man, Britain's The Sun newspaper reported .

The vessel carrying DiCaprio and his crew was near the island of St. Bart's, and the man fell overboard near the neighboring island of St. Martin, according to the Sun. "The captain of his ship sent out a panicked emergency message and Leonardo and his team agreed to look for the poor guy," a source told the newspaper.

The man was found near Saba island, south of St. Martin, the Sun reported. He was severely dehydrated and had been treading water for 11 hours, the source told the newspaper.

"I should have died," the man reportedly said after he was rescued. The luxury vessel's crew gave him food and dry clothes before handing him off to authorities.

Over the weekend, DiCaprio attended the Golden Globe Awards , where he was nominated for best actor in a musical or comedy film for his performance in "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood." Taron Egerton won the award for his portrayal of Elton John in "Rocketman."

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Leonardo Dicaprio, Jeff Bezos, Drake Celebrated New Year on $150 Million Yacht, Party Went Till 10 AM

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Jeff Bezos at his New Year Party

The party commenced with a dinner at Akiva's, then at around 1:30 a.m, it moved to Swiss billionaire Bertarelli's $150 million, 315-foot yacht, Vava II.

The ritzy island was a place to be on New Year’s Eve. A-listers including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff Bezos, Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra, Dua Lipa, and Drake partied at the new year bash of club king Richie Akiva, Ernesto Bertarelli, and Darren Dzienciol. Around 500 guests made the cut and were invited to the lavish party. According to a Page Six report, the party commenced with a dinner at Akiva’s, then at around 1:30 a.m, it moved to Swiss billionaire Bertarelli’s $150 million 315-foot yacht, Vava II. It is said that the party went on till 9 or 10 in the morning.

The stars were treated with a performance by rapper Meek Mill and Lil Baby. During Mill’s performance, Philadelphia 76ers co-owner Michael Rubin and internet star Jake Paul turned DJs for the night. Meek Mill is reportedly staying on Rubin’s yacht while in town.

Bezos, who posted a pic of himself with partner Lauren Sanchez, came in late following another bash. In the viral pictures, the Amazon founder was seen wearing heart-shaped sunglasses and a colourful button-down.

Sharing some glimpses from the party on Instagram, he urged his followers to "celebrate and grow". “We had so much fun last night celebrating with a crazy disco party with family, but the new year is also a great time to take stock and focus on personal growth, renewal, rebirth, and paying careful attention to each moment of your life,” he said in the caption of the post.

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Shortly after his divorce with Mackenzie Scott was finalised, Bezos made his relationship with Sanchez, a TV host-turned-helicopter pilot, public in 2019. Ever since, the couple has not shied away from showing PDA.

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A resurfaced clip of Leonardo DiCaprio being referred to as the ‘hottest hunkiest teen idol’ by a now-convicted paedophile has left many people unsettled.

This week the documentary series Quiet on Set was released and detailed the ‘toxic work conditions’ on Nickelodeon children’s shows in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Although most of the allegations centred on Dan Schneider, the creator of iCarly and Zoey 101, former child star Drake Bell also spoke about being sexually abused by Nickelodeon dialogue and acting coach Brian Peck.

In one of the episodes, his father Joe Bell spoke about the behaviour he witnessed between Peck and his son behind-the-scenes that set alarm bells ringing.

During an emotional interview, he said: ‘Unfortunately, I started seeing Brian start to just hang around Drake too much and it didn’t sit well with me.’

He went on to explain that during their time on set he would notice the coach constantly entering his son’s dressing room and inappropriately and needlessly touching him.

Brian Peck with a young Leonardo DiCaprio #QuietOnSet pic.twitter.com/OgNbDl6jDQ — Blake Garman (@FrostedBlakes34) March 19, 2024

A clip was then shown of Peck on the set of Growing Pains in 1991 with a then 15-year-old DiCaprio, with their interaction leaving many unsettled after being aware of how the dialogue coach was later sent to jail.

In the clip the 31-year-old is seen joking around with the teenager and says: ‘Leo’s job on the set is for some reason to make fun of me all day long.’

He then adds: ‘Leo is as you know the latest, hottest hunkiest teen idol there is.

After the young actor then flexes his muscles, Peck points to his biceps and exclaims: ‘Look speaking of hunky, huh?’

Following the clip airing in the series, many people shared their thoughts on social media.

‘This makes my skin crawl in so many ways’ one person shared on X.

‘This was hard to watch,’ someone else shared.

‘I remember seeing this and feeling weird,’ another added.

Referencing the clip in Quiet on Set, Bell said: ‘I saw this video of Brian Peck on Growing Pains with Leonardo DiCaprio grabbing his shoulders and running [his hand] down his arm. That’s the kind of behaviour I saw him with my son. The same freaking behaviour.’

In 2003, Peck was accused of molesting a child and spent 16 months in prison after being convicted of a lewd act against a child and oral copulation of a person under 16.

The identity of the child in the case against him remained anonymous at the time, however Bell came forward in Quiet on Set to reveal his identity and speak about what he was subjected to for the first time publicly.

He explained how the abuse was ‘extensive and got pretty brutal’.

DiCaprio has never indicated that he was a victim of Peck’s and has never publicly addressed their past association with him or Peck’s legal issues.

Peck was sentenced to 16 months in prison in October 2004 and registered as a sex offender

This week Schneider went on to has apologise for inappropriate behaviour on the set of his shows.

In a 20-minute video posted on YouTube on Tuesday, he called the series ‘difficult’ and ’embarrassing’ to watch.

‘Facing my past behaviours – some of which are embarrassing and that I regret – and I definitely owe some people a pretty strong apology,’ he said.

Metro.co.uk has contacted representatives for Leonardo DiCaprio for comment.

Quiet on Set is available to watch on Investigation Discovery in the United States.

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Story of cities #20: the secret history of Magnitogorsk, Russia's steel city

Designed for Stalin as the world’s first completely planned city, Magnitogorsk has yet to confront its controversial past – from the forced labour that helped build it in record time, to the severe pollution that has plagued its residents

In July 1931, Ibragim Akhmetzyanov arrived in Magnitogorsk in a wooden boxcar with his wife and eight children. The sight that greeted them was bleak.

In the middle of the frigid, windswept steppe, a cluster of tents and ramshackle barracks stood at the foot of the ominous “Magnetic Mountain”, a landform so full of iron ore that compasses could not function near it and birds avoided flying over it.

Between the mountain and the shallow Ural River, workers were erecting the crown jewel of the Soviet leader’s first Five-Year Plan, the Stalin Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Complex – one of the largest steel plants in the world.

The “first builders” of Magnitogorsk have been lauded in poetry, film and song; Soviet propaganda stressed the contribution of young communist volunteers and members of the Komsomol, a national youth movement that started largely in Magnitogorsk.

But Akhmetzyanov was not a volunteer. He was a dispossessed peasant who had been kicked off his farm in Tatarstan by the communist authorities and sent to Magnitogorsk, where he and his family were forced to work and live in a settlement surrounded by guards and barbed wire. It was the forced labour of these so-called “special resettlers” that made the record-quick construction of the plant possible.

They lived in tents for the autumn, then an earth-floored barrack through the harsh winter and hot summer, without basic amenities or medical care. According to Akhmetzyanov’s grandson Salavat, a historian who recently wrote a book about these special resettlers, 10,000 people died of hunger, cold and disease in the first five years of construction, including a son and daughter born to Ibragim and his wife.

“The story of thousands of resettlers has been forgotten,” Akhmetzyanov says. “When it comes to the war we don’t hide our losses and retreats, but here, on the topic of the 1930s, they’ve been tiptoed around.”

“If the regime had been interested in the people, the city would have built on less aggressive deadlines, and without the colossal amount of human casualties,” says Gennady Vasilyev, a local history teacher who compiles “books of memory” with the names of Magnitogorsk residents who suffered from Soviet repressions. “We have a saying that the victors aren’t judged, but this we do need to judge.”

Celebrated as the “steel heart of the motherland”, Magnitogorsk is a city that has yet to face down its past – and not just the history of the forced labour during its construction. Decades of heavy industry have polluted the air and water, but few questions are asked of the now privately owned Magnitogorsk Iron and Steelworks (MMK). More than 30,000 of the city’s 400,000 residents still work at MMK, and with official unemployment at only 1.44% , the city hasn’t suffered the urban blight of other run-down factory towns.

Magnitogorsk lies near the northern edge of the steppe: the tawny, featureless grasslands that extend west toward the Volga River and east into nearby Kazakhstan. Many people commute from Europe to Asia for work each day, travelling from the residential western side of the Ural River to the steel mill on the eastern side. A small Cossack fort was founded here in 1743, but the area remained mostly untouched by the outside world until the “year of the great break” in 1929, when the Bolsheviks made it the focal point of their first five-year plan to pull the still largely agrarian Soviet Union into the industrial age.

Iron and steel became the watchwords of the era. “We are becoming a country of metal,” Stalin declared, and this metal was to be forged in Magnitogorsk. It became the very embodiment of the push to create an industrialised, socialist society.

“Magnitogorsk was no mere business for generating profits; it was a device for transforming the country: its geography, its industry, and above all its people,” historian Stephen Kotkin writes in his book Magnetic Mountain. “Magnitogorsk was the October revolution itself, the socialist revolution, Stalin’s revolution.”

Ironically, to make this socialist revolution, the Soviet Union had to call on its capitalist rival, hiring the American firm Arthur McKee & Co in 1930 to design the steel plant and train Soviet engineers to build it. Magnitogorsk was reportedly inspired by the US Steel plant in Gary, Indiana, then the largest in the world. The first years of construction, however, were chaos, as the impossibly short deadlines set by Moscow collided with the total lack of infrastructure, chronic fires and a shortage of skilled workers and equipment.

Magnitogorsk’s builders staged “socialist competitions” to complete tasks on unbelievably tight deadlines. The results were rarely of top quality: a competition between teams on the left and right banks of the river in 1930 produced a dam that wasn’t deep enough, and was eventually submerged by a larger one. But the main thing was that another victory could be chalked up to the Bolshevik project, and workers were filled with “labour enthusiasm”, as Kotkin reports.

All the labour enthusiasm in the world couldn’t keep workers amid the harsh conditions, however, and tens of thousands fled. The state solved this labour shortage through a campaign to dispossess allegedly wealthy “kulak” peasants of their land, which began in 1930 and expanded in 1931.

The first boxcars of “special resettlers” arrived in Magnitogorsk in May 1931. According to Vasilyev, 40,000 families of dispossessed peasants were sent to the Chelyabinsk region, many of them Turkish-speaking Tatars and mostly to Magnitogorsk. Their “special” settlements, encircled in barbed wire, were Magnitogorsk’s own small islands in the vast “Gulag archipelago” of labour camps described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn . In addition, more than 26,000 non-political convicts had been sent to Magnitogorsk by the end of 1933.

The overcrowded, mostly dirt-floored tents and ramshackle barracks in which early residents lived were buffeted by blizzards in the winter and dust storms in the summer. Rats, bed bugs and lice tormented their occupants. Other newcomers reverted to rural ways, building mud huts dug deep into the ground.

Crowded, cold, filthy conditions, combined with the lack of clean water and scarcity of food and medical care, resulted in epidemics of typhus, malaria and scarlet fever. Meanwhile, party officials enjoyed a comparatively luxurious life in the wooded “American town” that was originally built for specialists from the United States in 1930.

“Special carts went around the barracks and asked, ‘Do you have any dead today?’ And everyday they took bodies,” Akhmetzyanov says of the winter of 1931. “Children died first of all, and the elderly.”

While the existence of the special resettlers isn’t denied, it’s not readily discussed either, and a recent drive to put up a monument to them has yet to bear fruit. The administration of one district barred Vasilyev from speaking with descendants there, and he can’t find a sponsor to publish his books on a larger scale. Even today, the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steelworks website makes no mention of this forced labour on its history page.

“We need to immerse children in this topic; they are the ancestors, they should know who they are,” Vasilyev says. “The subtitle of each of my books is, ‘This should never happen again.’”

“People say, ‘Why dig this up, even if it’s true?’” Akhmetzyanov explains. “The problem is that no one is giving money; all the study of these topics is done on [researchers’] own funds.”

The ‘socialist city’

The factory was erected in record time thanks to the first builders’ labour. On 31 January 1932, in temperatures below -20 degrees, blast furnace number one was blown in; the following year, it had to be shut down again and completely rebuilt.

Although officials were reluctant to allocate labour or resources away from the factory, a city still had to be built around it. According to a 1930 Magnitostroi propaganda pamphlet, the city would be the centre of a “deep inculcation of the new socialist way of life”. To this end, it was to be the world’s first completely planned city.

In 1930, Moscow enlisted the help of German architect Ernst May, who had won acclaim building egalitarian housing settlements in Frankfurt with standardised, prefabricated materials. May drafted a plan for a linear city, with a green belt between bands of residential and industrial areas. But when he arrived on site in October 1930, May found that not only was the designated site unsuitable for his plan, but that local officials had already begun construction.

The supposedly highly planned building process turned out to be highly erratic. Constrained by the existing construction and the factory facilities, May built what has become known as the Sotsgorod , or “socialist city”; a superblock of rectangular three- and four-storey flat buildings, south of the factory.

The large open areas in between the buildings – designed on May’s principle that every resident should have the maximum amount of light – are not well-adapted to the local climate, exposing all who come and go to the bitterly cold winds of the Ural steppe. Although the buildings are run-down, flats here are still in demand today, since they are constructed of brick rather than concrete panels like many later flat blocks. The site has now been proposed for Unesco World Heritage status.

At the time, May’s standardised, unembellished buildings were criticised as too plain. When commissar of industry Sergo Ordzhonikidze visited the site in 1933, he was disgusted by May’s superblock, which due to the lack of plumbing was surrounded by smelly outhouses, declaring, “You have named some manure a socialist city.” He ordered residential construction to be moved to the west bank of the river, but amid the vagaries of the Soviet leadership – not even the smallest decisions could be made without Moscow’s approval – a masterplan for this second attempt at a socialist city was slow to emerge.

Meanwhile, settlements of rickety barracks kept springing up next to each new enterprise that was built on the east bank, earning names such as “Fertiliser Settlement,” “Ore-Enriching Station” and “Lattice-Wood Town”, and stretching the city out more than 12 miles from north to south. The start of the first streetcar in 1935, bearing a portrait of Stalin – Magnitogorsk would eventually have the largest streetcar network in the country after Leningrad – was not enough to make up for the lack of paved roads and vehicles. By 1939 Magnitogorsk, already a city of 200,000, still had only one temporary hospital, and robberies were common. Far from a well-designed socialist city, this was an urban planning catastrophe with the chaotic outlaw atmosphere of a frontier town.

On the other hand, the housing and social services, while always too scarce, began to establish a more collectivised way of life, with public baths, laundries, cafeterias and nurseries. Along with the landmark Magnit cinema, a dozen workers’ clubs with libraries, games, movie projectors and study circles were built to try to broaden the cultural horizons of the poorly educated masses, while also teaching them the Soviet creed.

This Soviet urban ideal was eventually realised on the west bank of the river, with its wide prospects, squares and promenades, and abundance of five-storey “Khrushchev” flat blocks, laid out on a grid and connected to the factory side by streetcars and four major bridges. Today, property prices on the east side, which is where the wind blows the bulk of the factory’s emissions, are lower, and flat blocks there are generally in worse condition.

But the bulk of the west bank construction had to wait until after the second world war. Of 56,000 men in Magnitogorsk, more than 30,000 were sent to the front, with women taking their places in the factory.

“They worked at the factory as if they were on the front. My grandmother said sometimes they slept at the factory and didn’t go home,” remembers local activist Vyacheslav Gutnikov, whose grandmother worked in the coke-chemical section of the steel mill – known as the “hell division” because of the harmful gases.

Magnitogorsk’s role in the war is commemorated by the town’s main monument overlooking the river, “Homefront to the Front”: a 50-foot bronze sculpture of a worker handing a giant sword to a Soviet soldier. Locals are still fond of bragging that every second tank and every third shell during the conflict was built with Magnitogorsk steel.

It would be hard to overestimate the role that steelmaking plays in the life of the city, where members of nearly every family have worked at the plant. The beloved ice hockey team, which has won the national championship five times and for which local boys dream of playing, is called Metallurg.

On the eastern bank, the sheer size of MMK, which includes every step of the steelmaking process, is astounding. One workshop is more than a mile long, all under one roof. The plant produces 400 different types of steel and turned out 13 million tonnes of crude steel in 2014 and 12.2 tonnes of commercial steel products.

But metallurgy is a dirty business. In February, Leonardo DiCaprio reposted a National Geographic Instagram photograph of ice fishermen in front of dozens of smokestacks at MMK and a caption about pollution. DiCaprio’s repost caused a furore in Magnitogorsk. Chelyabinsk region governor Boris Dubrovsky, himself a former director of MMK, wrote a post on his own Instagram that the photo had been taken 22 years ago and that many of the smokestacks have since been removed, inviting DiCaprio to visit.

Yet any new arrival to the city is likely to notice an industrial tinge to the air, like the whiff of a charcoal brazier and an acrid dryness at the back of the throat. Russia’s state statistics service ranked Magnitogorsk the third most polluted city in Russia in 2015, finding that the level of benzopyrene, a carcinogen that has been linked to lung cancer, in the air was 23 times the allowed amount . In addition, millions of cubic metres of industrial waste water is pumped into the Ural River each year, according to environmentalists, polluting it with heavy particles, nitrites and other chemicals.

Information on the health effects of this pollution is extremely difficult to find, but according to Anna Rozhkova, head of the environmental group EcoMagnitka, only one in 20 children born in the city is completely free of health problems and allergies. The head of Magnitogorsk’s oncological hospital said in a 2012 interview that “people around the world are susceptible [to cancer], but we unfortunately outpace all others.”

Alexander Morozov, chairman of the city council, tells the Guardian these claims of widespread health problems are greatly exaggerated, arguing that the environmental conditions had greatly improved. An MMK spokesperson says the company spent 2.5 billion roubles in 2013-15 on systems to reduce its environmental impact, and would invest more than 10.5 billion roubles (£110 million) in 2016-18.

When asked about the environment, locals tend to answer that at least it’s better than it used to be, remembering how the factory emissions used to turn the snow rust-coloured or black.

“Earlier, cucumbers and cabbage wouldn’t even grow,” recalls Nina Ivanovna, a cashier at a bakery on the east bank of the river. “They yellowed and wilted right away.”

But a fisherman selling minnows by the kilogram near MMK suggests the river is still polluted. “Yesterday they pumped out some filth, and there were lots of dead fish, a whole layer of them,” says the man, who would give his name only as Igor.

According to Pavel Verstov, editor of the local independent news site Verstov.info, the city administration should make MMK take more aggressive measures to solve these and other problems, but it is “under the factory’s thumb”.

Despite the city’s near-total dependence on the steel plant, diversifying the economy is not an issue that worries many. Asked what will happen to the city if the plant ever shuts down, city council chairman Morozov is blunt: “Detroit ... But we don’t think this will happen. We don’t think the factory could have such a crisis that it would stop.”

MMK has remained profitable , unlike many Soviet industrial plants. But the company suffered losses in Q4 of 2015, hit by Russia’s economic recession and record lows in global steel prices, and the situation is unlikely to improve this year. Many fear a return to the cuts of the financial crisis of 2008, when the company laid off 3,000 workers .

Yet locals remain fiercely patriotic and hopeful for their city. “There are things to criticise [Magnitogorsk] for, but I criticise it with love, so that it will get better,” says Oleg Frolov, editor of the MMK-sponsored local newspaper Magnitogorsk Metal. “It produces the GDP, the might of the country. It’s not for nothing that they call us the steel heart of the motherland.”

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