Pyramiden, an abandoned coal-mining settlement in Russia, is one of the world's northernmost towns and a frozen-in-time example of Soviet-era culture. Source: National Geographic, The New York Times ...

A jaw-dropping clip shared by AccuWeather has gone viral after capturing a man in Pyramiden, Svalbard escaping a charging polar bear by leaping onto a snowmobile. The incident was filmed by Rebecca ...

The ‘governor’ is a man of few words but many jobs. Sitting opposite me in his permanently oil-stained orange overalls, he looks past me out of a window in the Pyramiden Hotel at the empty buildings ...

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The Russian mining ghost town of Pyramiden on Arctic Svalbard will soon be developed into a new Russian tourist center, according to NRK. Pyramiden (the pyramid) was the largest Russian community on ...

Pyramiden is an abandoned Soviet-era coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. It has become a tourist destination in recent years. The tussocks in the foreground are the ...

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An abandoned town, largely unchanged from decades ago, sits at the far northern edge of Svalbard, beyond reliable phone signal or internet access. Pyramiden lies deep inside the High Arctic, once a ...

Although Russia stopped its coal-mining operation in Pyramiden in 1998, the small Arctic outpost helps it retain a footprint in Norway's Svalbard archipelago ...

The exSoviet mining town Pyramiden built on the archipelago of Svalbard stopped functioning in the late 1980s and was finally deserted in 1998 leaving behind a number of empty residential buildings an ...