Cruising to Pyramiden, a Russian Ghost Town in Svalbard
Cruising to Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian mining town near Longyearbyen, was once one of the most popular excursions in Svalbard. Pyramiden was a thriving Soviet coal-mining settlement of over 1,000 people until it was abandoned in 1998, and today it sits frozen in time: a statue of Lenin still watches over the town square, and […]