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Basically the same info in a more digestible format: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Svalbard https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Svalbard I find the ex-Soviet colon

Basically the same info in a more digestible format: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Svalbard https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Svalbard I find the ex-Soviet colonies particularly fascinating. One, Barentsburg, is still operating, and living there as a coal miner sounds absolutely hellish. Soviet era tech and safety standards, extreme climate, nearly entirely male population, living off cabbage and canned food -- it's like the gulag, only at least you get paid for it.

gnull 4y ago
> The Barentsburg Pomor Museum presents Pomor culture, Arctic flora and fauna, and archaeological objects preserved in the permafrost. Wow, this is hardcore. Wikipedia says that Russian Pomors reached there around the same time vikings did. (Pomors are Russians who historically lived far North.)
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