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Pyramiden

A Soviet mining town abandoned in 1998, reached by boat in summer, with a Lenin bust, empty buildings and a glacier across the fjord.

Photo: Bjoertvedt · CC BY-SA 3.0
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A Soviet mining town abandoned in 1998, reached by boat in summer, with a Lenin bust, empty buildings and a glacier across the fjord.

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