Pyramiden

Pyramiden
Пирамида
Pyramiden in 2012
Pyramiden in 2012
Pyramiden is located in Svalbard
Pyramiden
Pyramiden
Coordinates: 78°39′22″N 16°19′30″E / 78.65611°N 16.32500°E / 78.65611; 16.32500
CountryNorway
TerritorySvalbard
IslandSpitsbergen
Population
 (2016)
 • Total6 (During summer)
White writing above the abandoned coal mine. It says "Peace to the world!" in Russian (Миру мир! [ru]). The phrase was commonly used in Soviet state-owned projects.
Company sign
Abandoned buildings
Gym inside the Pyramiden miners' housing complex

Pyramiden (Norwegian: [pʏrɑˈmîːdn̩]; Russian: Пирами́да, romanized: Piramída, IPA: [pʲɪrɐˈmʲidə]; literally 'The Pyramid') is an abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard which has become a tourist destination. Founded by Sweden in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927, Pyramiden was closed in 1998 and has since remained largely abandoned with most of its infrastructure and buildings still in place, the cold climate preserving much of the infrastructure left behind.

Since 2007, there have been efforts to make it a tourist attraction; the town's hotel was renovated and reopened in 2013. In the summer, there is a population of six caretakers.[1]