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Mining

Life inside a Russian Mining Town in NORWAY (Surreal Experience)

This is the Russian coal mining town of Barentsburg, in Norway… Barentsburg is high up in the Arctic, in Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago, but with a twist, this mining town of 500 people is owned by Russia, and it is nearly exclusively populated by Russians, Ukrainians and people from various countries of the former Soviet Union (USSR). How is it…