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 ...

What happens when a $30,000,000 Soviet paradise is left to rot? 🤯 Once a luxurious escape for the Soviet elite, this abandoned resort ... Paying Jobs': Chobani Is Building the Biggest Dairy ...

It is 30 years since the tumultuous events of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, the Iron Curtain lifted and the Soviet Empire began to crumble. As part of a special series of reports on how Russia ...

For example, there’s a restaurant where, on the second floor, tiles made from shellac – a valuable finishing stone in the late Soviet Union – have ... of kilometers from abandoned Orbita, two new five ...

Many are abandoned villages or cities ... region's mineral riches to support the rapid industrialisation of the Soviet Union. To that effect, he set up gulags in the region, using political ...

In 1934, the Soviet Union established a polar station ... as they use the derelict buildings left behind by the abandoned station as shelter, especially during the summer months when the ice ...

A glance around the town reveals emblems from the former Soviet Union on street lights and atop buildings. The city was silent — abandoned in every sense. Vegetation creeps into the buildings ...

In Russia’s arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag ... Since then, the railway’s gulag camps have lain abandoned, sinking further into the forest ...

A photographer's iconic shots of polar bears in abandoned buildings on a Russian island shine a spotlight on wider changes in ...