PYRAMIDEN: Exploring an Abandoned Soviet Ghost Town in the Arctic
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Join us as we explore the abandoned Soviet era ghost town of Pyramiden in the Arctic. Discover the history and eerie beauty of this unique Russian ghost town in Svalbard. We travelled to Pyramiden, to learn what caused this, once busy arctic town, to be completely abandoned in just a few months.
This promises to be an incredible journey as we explore the Russian ghost town of Pyramiden! Despite looking like we are in the middle of Russia, Pyramiden, is actually nestled in the snow covered Arctic wilderness of Svalbard, owned by Norway. This once-thriving mining settlement is now a haunting reminder of its Soviet past. In this video, we'll uncover the fascinating history of Pyramiden, from its establishment in the 1970s to its eerie abandonment in the 1990s.
Experience the stunning landscapes and unique architecture of this frozen time capsule, as we walk through deserted buildings, abandoned machinery, and the remnants of a community that once bustled with life. Discover the stories behind the locals who lived here, the challenges they faced, and the reasons for the town's eventual decline.
Whether you're a history buff, an urban explorer, or simply love to travel and are curious about forgotten places, this video offers an in-depth look at Pyramiden's intriguing past and its place in modern culture. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more travel adventures to remote places around the world!
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Sorry for the late upload here, this was a hell of an edit 😥😅 Have you ever visited an abandoned settlement? 🙏🏼
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There are villages in Cyprus that have been abandoned because of the war since 1974. Unfortunately, they had to abandon their property. Very sad history for the small island of Mediterranean sea
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I’ve been to Pyramiden twice and both times in winter..it is THE best place to visit on Svalbard..and the hotel is amazing..Next time I go it will be in summertime. Thanks for sharing your experience 😊
Great content. Would never see this kind of places if it's not for you guys! Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much! So happy to have you along with us!! 🥰❤️
Agree with Julia, having such a beautiful view in front of you, staring at the beauty of the nature, is the ultimate satisfaction, in a Polar landscape reconnecting with the Nature would be amazing.
This! 💯❤️❤️❤️
Well, Pyramiden was not nor will it be on my bucket list. So glad you went there for us! Excellent drone shots and filming in the different rooms and buildings. When you go (of course you will) to Namibia, visit Kolmanskop which is a ghost diamond town. Bowling Alley, theater, houses, hospital... now abandoned with lots of sand. Perhaps too hot for you Julia!?! What a unique visit this one was. Thanks for taking us there. Hugs from France.
Thank you so much Linda! Really appreciate it, glad we could share it! ❤️ We will definitely take a look at Kolmanskop 😍 Lots of love to France form the both of us 🙏🏼
What a stunning place! It's amazing to see how well preserved it all is. Also, this makes me appreciate the grand experiments the Soviets attempted. Although it didn't work out in the end, it's amazing to see what they did achieve even for a short time. We need more societal experiments to find better ways for societies to get along and support all their citizens. Thank you so much for sharing this tour with us!
Thank you so much for coming along with us! 🥰 Really glad we could share it! ❤️
Your channel is among the highlights of my RUclips watches. Keep up the excellent travelogues.
Wow, what a trip. Again somewhere I've never heard of. I honestly think your channel needs to be pushed out there, I can see the documentaries you could make. Much love as always ❤❤
Thank you so much Agnes! That means the world 🙏🏼 Lot of love from the both of us ❤️❤️❤️
What a wonderful tour, thankyou Matt and Julia!❤
Thank you very much Cathie! 🙏🏼❤️
Thank you for the great adventure into our world. I could feel the respect for what you two were viewing.
What an awesome content, kind of sad, though, people have to leave a place they called home. But that Era wasn't that easy. I saw in both of your eyes showing some sadness, which is understanding. Love the video. Take care.Thanks 😊
Pyramiden is both beautiful and sad at the same time. Awesome video!
Totally agree with you ❤️ Thank you so much! 🥰
Nice never heard of it but know a bit more now. Great Ariel phots with the drone Thanks for sharing
Really glad we could share it with you! 🙏🏼❤️
Outstanding video and very informative as always!
Thank you so much Kim ❤️🥰
You guys keep adding destinations to my bucket list! 😊
😃 This one should go right near the top! 🥰❤️
Wow, this is such an imposing place. Relics of the past. Owned by a different species now. The polar bears ! Impressive video ! ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much Yvonne, really appreciate that! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for this view into another world.
Thank you for coming along with us! 🥰❤️
Thanks for another great video!
I always enjoy your photography, keep it up!
Thank you so much! ❤️
Very good content and thank you for sharing this video because I have never heard of this place
Thank you very much! Really glad you enjoyed it 🙌🏼❤️
Hi from Wales ( although currently in Kyrgyzstan) made it to Longyearbyen few months ago fascinating place
Hey Chris! Lots of love to Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 😍🏴
Thanks for a very nice video
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙌🏼❤️
Thank you for this wonderful content! Svalbard ist one of the places i'd really like to visit some day. Stunning pictures. Love it!
New of this area from another RUclips channel it your insight that was fantastic 💓fantastic
Thank you so much! Really appreciate it! Welcome to the channel ❤️🙌🏼
I really want to visit this town, I love abandoned places. So much nostalgia and melancholy! In my country I have visited places like this, but mostly buildings, but nothing of the scale seen in Pyramiden. Another video that makes me excited to travel and see remote places! Thank you for the care you take in editing, I understand why it takes you so long. I look forward to you returning to Svalbard in winter and experiencing the polar night with its auroras. Love to both of you, I am intrigued as to where Julia is in the last moments of the video, surely not in permafrost land! I know... I will find out in due time! haha Bye
Us too Alejandro, it is truly fascinating! So glad we could share it with you 🥰 Oooh you’ll have to wait and see about the place, buuuut, oh yeah it’s very different to the Arctic 😅
Lots of love from the both of us! ❤️
Found this very interesting and informative, great job.
Absolutely stunning scenery. Everything there is so nice and neat and the buildings seem to be really far apart. Did you find any sign of hot plates, kettles or coffee makers in the apartments? If not that would mean that people had to go out at -40c in the wind and snow to get a cup of coffee? Yikes, just the thought of it makes me shiver. The two of you find the most wonderful places on earth to discover, thank you so much!❤
Thank you so much! So happy you enjoyed the video ❤️ We didn’t notice any signs of heat marks, but i would hope they could 🥶
Very interesting
Wow thank you for sharing, a lot of us wouldn’t even get to visit such places..❤ xxx
Really enjoyed this, I had no knowledge about this place.
Russian poverty cannot be hidden. Not even on Svalbard. A strong contrast to Norway!
Норвегия дыра мира !
What is it about this place. It is eerily captivating. The views are amazing and because so much was left I could almost picture the people living here. Thanks for picking this place to visit and letting us tag a long . I had no idea a place like this existed.
thank You
Was there in 2017 with a fantastic and funny guide named Sasha. Very interesting place, and recommend a trip there if you are in Longyearbyen
Couldn’t agree more 🙏🏼❤️
Perfect place for meditation.
Julia, if you like the Arctic, the one place that you should definitely visit is " *Воркутинское кольцо* ". That is the city of Vorkuta (Russia) and settlements around it: Komsomolsky, Vorgashor, Severny, Yurshor, Promyshlenny. That is probably the eeriest place on the entire planet Earth.
Been there, loved the place but a day was not enough for us. I really enjoyed the video, thanks x
Where is the video-proof that you were there?
Amazing! Maybe add the name of the place in cyrillic russian as well? It would be so cool to get a comment from someone who actually lived there. Edit: the name "Pyramiden" is Swedish and simply means "The pyramid"
Thank you so much! We would love to too, would be fascinating to hear 😍🙏🏼
Very interesting video and so professionally presented. I was hoping you’d meet up with Cecilia and Cristopher. Maybe you will return during the polar nights and join them for a coffee in a cosy Longyearbyen coffee shop.
Hello, first thing to do I like video then watch it.
Thank you so much! 🥰 That means the world ❤️🙏🏼
Dude excellent drone footage. Kinda shaky on some of your hand held shots. Stabilizer for your cam maybe. Are there still dead miners trapped in that mine after the accident?
Thank you very much! 🙌🏼❤️ Not as far as we know no, but it made the settlement even less economically viable 🙏🏼
It’s awfully sad to see these once vibrant towns become ghostly places & in a world increasingly becoming homeless these bricks & mortar dwellings could be rehashed 🧐
For sure! 🙏🏼 Hoping that tourism breathes new life in to this place too ❤️
The final part of the movie "Civil Twilight" (Original title: Arctic Void) (2022) takes place in Pyramiden, Svalbard. I can recommend it to those who like mystery thrillers.🙂
Wow ❤this reminds me of the Sovjet Club in Yerevan, last year…the good stuff from the USSR, frozen in time, but for you it was real(cold)😂Lots of love from Holland
I did enjoy your vlog but I can only imagine how grim their lives would’ve been, to work in a coal mine during the polar night. Even if the pay was great for those times, miners used to have a fairly short life span, it must’ve been a pretty depressing life and under constant “observation” from the KGB, probably not to get “contaminated” by “capitalist ideas”.
Fascinating. Not sure I followed what the specific reason was for people to leave so suddenly that everything was left behind. Many of the things left behind could have been useful somewhere else. Surprising they just up and left. There must be a reason for that other than a mine accident. That period was at same time as USSR collapse and probably just literally, everything stopped and nothing coming in to sustain the town, they all just up and left??? Just my wandering mind thinking about it.
Glad we could share it 🙏🏼 Yes, the compounding affect of the lack of subsidies due to the economic crisis in Russia after the fall of USSR, the fire in mine, and the airplane disaster, caused it’s eventual closure x
This is your last video from Svalbard? Strange. From your previous replies to comments, I thought you met Cecilia and Christopher and were going to upload that video.
Even if there was a free house, I would not live there... not with the polar bears, the complete 24 hour darkness in winter, and the frigid temperatures. Not as cold as Siberia, but Siberia has sunlight all year round (except Norlisk and Murmansk), so I'd prefer Siberia.
Creepy Chernobyl vibes
For sure!
You must have bumped in to Ben Morris as he released same thing on RUclips the other day 😂
The lack of trees I can obviously see, but it seems that there is a lack of dust on anything inside the buildings. How is that possible?
Look closely at minute 4:54 and you will see dust.
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Is this on Svalbard ?
Yes it is 😘
They should be ashamed . Abandoned it should be returned to its natural beauty . The island seems to have lots of rules about protecting the tundra and what you can and can’t do yet that place is completely left so just rot.
Think you guys have stole idea of Bald and Bankrupt!
I bet he is jelous!
Can come with you guys visiting Russian town lol 😢
Julia, you say that you are obsessed with the Arctic and love being there. Do you know why? Because you don't live there.
Юля,я тоже хочу чтобы все сумасшедшие,параноидальные упыри умерли,и в будущем всем станет лучше,полярная ночь закончится и человеколюбие,как завещал нам наш Создатель,всё же победит хитрое зло.Так тому и быть(Амен).Ныне,и присно,и во веки веков!Хау!Я все сказал.
The Soviet Union was not Socialist!
The name was literally, the Union of Soviet ‘Socialist’ Republics (USSR)👌🏻 - of course, as we said, theory and practice are a long way apart.
@@MattandJulia Yes but the Nazi state was also the National Socialist party and they were Fascists.It was always a misleading title of convenience that overshadowed the many true Socialist state policies of various countries of the world. See the the post war British Labour government as a prime example of true socialist policy. The remains of it are barely hanging on now but were a shining example of what Socialism really is.
perhaps you shoudn't come there if it is a polar bear route. that way they won't have to shoot them if they attack you.
No polar bear was shot, , and the same could literally be said for anywhere humans go 🙄 The guides are trained to scare them off, not shoot, and the fact is we aren’t the only people that have gone and will go 👍🏻
Certain people in the know about things the world could not find out ENDED there days there in a Furnace, 😮 If You Know U No, 🫡
Thank you for this view into another world.
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