A man wearing an Arktikugol anorak walks through a blizzard in Barentsburg, on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP) A giant flag of the USSR – a state that collapsed 35 years ago – ...
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Russia claimed the Arctic with this city... then let it die
Pyramiden was built by the Soviet Union as a model communist city in the Arctic. Located on Norwegian territory near the North Pole, it housed miners, families, schools, and cultural centers. When the ...
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The mystery of Pyramiden, the abandoned city in the Arctic Sea
Pyramiden is a ghost town on an island in the Arctic Glacial Sea. It was a mining settlement originally belonging to Sweden until 1927, when it was sold to the Soviet Union. In 1998, it ceased ...
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