An eerie silence descends on this abandoned mining settlement in the Arctic, interspersed with furious winds emitting high-pitched fatuous noises as they whip past empty buildings. A large bust of ...
Things get stranger the farther away you are from home, and wherever you come from, there's nowhere farther than the North Pole. That's where Longyearbyen is located. It somehow resides on an Arctic ...
Nestled icily in the midst of Svalbard, a cluster of Arctic islands strung along the 79th parallel, the Soviet city of Pyramiden is one of the northernmost settlements in the world. For centuries, the ...
Pyramiden is an abandoned Russian mining town located on a remote island in the Arctic. Thanks to its extreme climate, the town looks eerily similar to how it did when it closed in 1998. Pyramiden now ...
Russian provocations on the archipelago of Svalbard are driving up tensions at the top of the world. A Soviet-era Playboy model smiles coyly from a torn poster hanging in the men’s dormitory. Nearby, ...
People say that the Soviet town of Pyramiden was abandoned overnight. In reality, however, the desertion occurred over a period of months. But a visitor arriving in Pyramiden in the fall of 1998 would ...
With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, the desolate mining town of Pyramiden is one of the last Soviet outposts in the Arctic. The journey to ...
You can find the northernmost iteration of many things in Longyearbyen, the 3000-strong Norwegian settlement on Svalbard just 1000 kilometres from the North Pole. That's true for its supermarket, ...
Photographer Jan Erik Waider has captured the eerily empty town of Pyramiden in the Svalbard archipelago, which is now mostly home to polar bears. His misty images focus on the deserted buildings and ...
On the remote archipelago of Svalbard, a decaying settlement offers visitors an intimate look at the not-so-distant past. The dusty entrance to the chemical plant at Pyramiden, an abandoned settlement ...
People say that the Soviet town of Pyramiden was abandoned overnight. In reality, however, the desertion occurred over a period of months. But a visitor arriving in Pyramiden in the fall of 1998 would ...
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