Inside Pyramiden, a Soviet ghost town in Arctic Norway

The Soviet settlement of Pyramiden once boasted many of the northernmost things — schools, concert halls, swimming pools — in the world. Now it's all but abandoned.

By Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer October 4, 2018
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This was once upon a time the world’s northernmost kindergarten and primary school. 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.

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