High in the Arctic, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, stands one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Spaces, a digital publication exploring new ways to live and work. Photographer Jan Erik Waider has captured the eerily empty town of ...

AN ABANDONED Soviet town that was once a bustling hub and home to thousands of residents is now dominated by polar bears. The creepy ghost town of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard ...

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 ...

An intense viral video captures a terrifying encounter in Norway's abandoned Arctic town of Pyramiden, where a photographer ...

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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 ...

Pyramiden is situated at 79°N, some 50 kilometers north of Longyearbyen. It was once the world’s northernmost town. Coal mining ended in the late 90ties and the settlement was abandoned. (Thomas ...

Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian coal-mining community, is a frozen-in-time testimony to Soviet-era culture and one of the world's northernmost communities. Located on a secluded island in the Svalbard ...