Pyramiden: A Ghost Soviet Mining Town in the Arctic
Apr 13, 2014#0183;#32;Barentsburg, the other Russian mining community in the Svaldbard, still active, lies approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) southwest. Founded in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927, Pyramiden has been an active industrial mine and community till 1998, when the stateowned Russian mining company Trust Arkticugol decided to close it.