Pyramiden is a ghost town on an island in the Arctic Glacial Sea. It was a mining settlement originally belonging to Sweden until 1927, when it was sold to the Soviet Union. In 1998, it ceased ...

Pyramiden, a town in the Arctic Circle that has stood empty of humans since 1998, is a living museum to Soviet life. Visit ...

I asked the guide where they were headed. "We are sailing to Pyramiden," she replied, "the lost Arctic city." I had never even heard of Pyramiden. But since most of Longyearbyen's tourist ...

Pyramiden is an abandoned Russian mining town located on a remote island in the Arctic. Thanks to its extreme climate, the town looks eerily similar to how it did when it closed in 1998.

The dusty entrance to the chemical plant at Pyramiden, an abandoned settlement popular with tourists on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.Credit... Supported by Photographs and Text by Jamie ...

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. The journey to ...

Photographer Jan Erik Waider has captured the eerily empty town of Pyramiden in the Svalbard archipelago, which is now mostly home to polar bears. His misty images focus on the deserted buildings ...

Nestled icily in the midst of Svalbard, a cluster of Arctic islands strung along the 79th parallel, the Soviet city of Pyramiden is one of the northernmost settlements in the world. For centuries ...

People say that the Soviet town of Pyramiden was abandoned overnight. In reality, however, the desertion occurred over a period of months. But a visitor arriving in Pyramiden in the fall of 1998 ...

Photographer Jan Erik Waider has captured the eerily empty town of Pyramiden in the Svalbard archipelago, which is now mostly home to polar bears. His misty images focus on the deserted buildings ...