| Page Views: 1,288 Last Visit to Barentsburg: May, 2003 | Russian Barentsburg by shiran_d - last update: Jul 18, 2003 |
Barentsburg is the main Russian community on Spitsbergen. It is now open to tourists, and this is where our snowmibile trip across the mountains from Longearbyen took us. |
|  | In Russia without the hassle Barentsburg, a coal-mining village in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, is under Kremlin administration.
Barentsburg was then a Dutch coal-mining settlement.
The Soviet Union bought the town and mines in 1932 and Russians have been there ever since. |
| | Leaving the Settlement The locals said compared to their impoverished homeland, locals call this ''The Land of Miracles.''
And this was the moment we left and head back to Longyearbyen on our Snow Scooters. |
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tini58de Sun May 28, 2006 06:49 UTC
Really a very remote place! I enjoyed your page, thanks for sharing! | vivimero Thu May 13, 2004 13:43 UTC
where had you been lately? no news from you since...Xmas----write me! | lotharlerch Thu Oct 23, 2003 22:51 UTC
one of the most off-the-beaten-path places on earth. A pity that you left VT | annk Sun Sep 28, 2003 17:58 UTC
A fascinating place and so off the beaten path. Can't imagine a town where police are not needed. |
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