Pyramiden (Norwegian: [pʏrɑˈmîːdn̩]; Russian: Пирами́да, romanized: Piramída, IPA: [pʲɪrɐˈmʲidə]; literally 'The Pyramid') is an abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard which has become a tourist destination.

2022年6月20日 · 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.

Pyramiden is a living museum and former mining community which is often referred to as a "ghost town" in Svalbard. Read more about Pyramiden here!

2024年5月29日 · On a remote Norwegian island inside the Arctic Circle lies Pyramiden, an abandoned coal mining town that once employed hundreds of men from the Soviet Union. In its heyday during the Cold War, this settlement was home to over 1,000 people trying to make an honest living in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth.

2022年8月26日 · Venture into Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands, and one will find Pyramiden. Pyramiden is an old abandoned Soviet coal mining - come living museum. The Svalbard Treaty of 1920 recognized the islands as part of Norway, but the treaty also had some unique stipulations.

2019年1月16日 · This abandoned ghost town is unlike any other. Welcome to Pyramiden, Svalbard: a former Russian mining town left empty & decaying in Norway's Arctic Circle.

2014年5月19日 · Soviet culture, architecture and politics permeate the town, from the block-style housing to the bust of Lenin—the world’s northernmost statue of that communist revolutionary—gazing down, fatherly...

2016年1月22日 · Founded by Swedes on a Norwegian island chain in the Arctic Ocean in 1910, the terrain was sold to the Soviet Union in 1927. For the next 70 years, a hearty band of Soviets mined the remote...

2018年10月4日 · Abandoned twenty years ago, Pyramiden coal-mining town on the northern edge of the world is a preserved display of what the Soviet Union wanted to offer in the Arctic if communism worked. It didn’t.

2018年10月3日 · Abandoned twenty years ago, Pyramiden coal-mining town on the northern edge of the world is a preserved display of what the Soviet Union wanted to offer in the Arctic if communism worked. It didn’t.