A man wearing an Arktikugol anorak walks through a blizzard in Barentsburg, on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP) A giant flag of the USSR – a state that collapsed 35 years ago – ...
A giant flag of the USSR – a state that collapsed 35 years ago – greeted the first passenger ship of the season as Russia begins direct travel from Murmansk to Svalbard.
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 ...
An abandoned town, largely unchanged from decades ago, sits at the far northern edge of Svalbard, beyond reliable phone signal or internet access. Pyramiden lies deep inside the High Arctic, once a ...