It even outlasted the Soviet empire: its 60km of mining shafts were still in use ... there being no other reason to live here, the town was abandoned. Only a skeleton staff of Russians like ...

Pyramiden, a town in the Arctic Circle that has stood empty of humans since 1998, is a living museum to Soviet life. Visit ...

AN ABANDONED Soviet town that was once a bustling hub and home ... was once a thriving mining community. Home to more than 1,000 people, it boasted a theatre, a library and studios for both ...

An abandoned Soviet coal mining ghost town has become a dark tourist destination frozen in time. Pyramiden, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, was founded by Sweden in 1910 and was sold to ...

Akarmara, once a bustling coal mining town, is now overtaken by trees. It lies in Abkhazia, a breakaway region on Georgia's Black Sea coast. Wars and economic change have emptied the town of the ...

An abandoned Russian ghost ... to create a path connecting a series of mines. Kadykchan, initially established as a gulag before evolving into a mining town, is part of a region called Kolyma ...