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 ...

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

Pyramiden, a frozen and deserted town in the Svalbard archipelago, is now home to deadly polar bears. Once a prosperous mining community, the town was abandoned when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 ...

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 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 ...

The exSoviet mining town Pyramiden built on the archipelago of Svalbard stopped functioning in the late 1980s and was finally deserted in 1998 leaving behind a number of empty residential buildings an ...

An intense viral video captures a terrifying encounter in Norway's abandoned Arctic town of Pyramiden, where a photographer narrowly escaped a charging polar bear on a snowmobile. This incident ...