The famous Chernobyl ghost town merges every year more and more with the surrounding terrain. Nature relentlessly recaptures it meter by meter. But over the Soviet mining town of Pyramid, located on the Arctic Shpicbergen archipelago, time has no power. People left it almost 20 years ago. Cold preserves traces from vegetation.
1 The settlement was built in 1910 by the Swedes who have received permission for coal mining on the archipelago. It got its name from the nearest mountain. 17 years later, the mine was bought by "Arcticugol" trust, and the village became Soviet. 1300 kilometers from the North Pole were built houses, a school, theater, library, cultural center, two cemeteries (one for men and one for cats) and sports complex with the most northerly in the world heated swimming pool.
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Until the collapse of the USSR more than a thousand people lived in the Pyramid. In the 90 there was no money for the maintenance of the village above the Arctic Circle. Last miners returned to the continent in March 1998.
This place has got its mystery. Ream with kitchen plates, linens, typewriters, musical instruments and even expensive miner equipment – people could take these things with them and subsequently sell. However, all these things are on their place. As if the workers hurriedly left the Pyramid.
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