Today we went on a boat trip to Nordenskiøldbreen and then the Pyramid. We were back after 11 hours.
The origins of russian mining goes back to 1913. The real operation however, began in the late 1920's and the beginning of 1930's when Trust Arktikugol bought Barentsburg, Pyramiden and Grumant. The russians bought Pyramiden from the Swedes in 1926. Before the war only test mining was carried out there. After 1948 Pyramiden was rebuilt from the ground. Pyramiden was closed in 1998 and has since then remained abandoned with most of it's infrastructure and buildings still in place.
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