Barentsburg
Barentsburg (Баренцбург) is a pint-sized but fascinating open-air museum of the Soviet Union in Svalbard, where 300 hardy coal miners continue to work in one of the northernmost settlements on Earth. Wikivoyage
Population 343 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Norway
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide- ArtArcticGallery Gallery · 50 m
- Lenin Memorial · 150 m
- Наша цель - Коммунизм! Memorial · 150 m
- memorial to the lost sailors Memorial · 250 m
- Television Viewpoint · 300 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
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