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I Went Up The Polar Circle To Visit A Soviet Ghost Town
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I Went Up The Polar Circle To Visit A Soviet Ghost Town

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On the Svalbard Island, at 79° North which is approximately 1000 kilometers from the North Pole, lies a soviet ghost town call Pyramiden.

This town was developed from scratch and used by Russian between 1931 and 1998 to exploit the coal mine nearby.

In 1998, the exploitation of the mine stopped and everybody left.

Here is a small selection of pictures, much more on the link below.

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    The entrance of the canteen where everybody in Pyramiden had lunch every day and as everybody had to pass through this door, the front of the building was used to show what was planned in the city. Movies on the left of the door, sport and musical events on the right.

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    Inside an accomodation building

    The gymnasium

    The swimming pool

    The stadium

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    Monument at the entrance of the sports complex, named after Yuri Gagarin

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    Jonk

    Jonk

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    Passionate photographer, I travel the world looking for abandoned places. I visited more than eight hundreds of them in almost 40 countries on 4 continents. You will find some of the pictures I brought back from these travels clicking the links in my bio.

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    Jonk

    Jonk

    Author, Community member

    Passionate photographer, I travel the world looking for abandoned places. I visited more than eight hundreds of them in almost 40 countries on 4 continents. You will find some of the pictures I brought back from these travels clicking the links in my bio.

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