Video: The dying Russian village of Pyramida in the Norwegian archipelago
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the popular science series "Life After People" village Pyramida, located on the Spitsbergen archipelago, is shown as an illustrative example of what the remnants of civilization will look like 10 years after the disappearance of people. Finnish photographer Ville Lenkkeri presented a photo cycle "A Place Without Roads", in which he talked about what a once successful mining settlement looks like today.
Permission to mine coal in the archipelago was obtained by the Swede Bertile Högb in 1910, and simultaneously with the construction of the first mine, the workers' settlement Pyramida appeared, named after the pyramidal shape of the mountain at the foot of which it was built. Since 1931, the village passed to the Soviet regime, but during the war the miners were evacuated from the archipelago, and in 1946 609 polar explorers returned here, then the construction of the first street of residential buildings began.
Ville Lankeri is a 43-year-old photographer from Finland. In 2009 he published the monograph "The Place of no Roads".
In the 1960s and 1980s, more than a thousand people lived in the Pyramid, multi-storey capital buildings, a swimming pool, a library, a winter garden and a shallow port for receiving coal were built. They lived here prosperously, and it seemed that the crisis would never touch this remote region. Despite the bright prospects, in the late 1990s, the productivity of the mines fell sharply, and it was decided to mothball the village. Ville Lanccheri in his photo cycle showed how the Pyramid gradually collapses, like the ghost town of Varosha - an exclusion zone in Cyprus or eerie abandoned Ukrainian Pripyat … Silence, oblivion, decay - that's all that befell the surviving buildings.
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