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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...