A rare guest. A Russian ANTONOV AN-74 at the airport in Longyearbyen. Russia plans big ifor the future. But can they do it? (Photo: Heiner Kubny) In a report on the news platform Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the general director of the Arktikugol Trust, Ildar Neverov, stated...
Although still active, coal production in Barentsburg is rather anecdotal, serving mainly to supply local consumption. However, the city may soon become an international scientific station. Image: Michael Wenger An international scientific station in Svalbard should...
The 2,400 inhabitants of Longyearbyen and the thousands of tourists depend on regular flights to get to the Norwegian mainland quickly. But for a week now, almost nothing has been possible due to a pilots’ strike at SAS. Image: Michael Wenger Svalbard has in...
It’s okay to look as long as you don’t pay (Photo: self) Barentsburg, a Russian settlement in Svalbard, is known locally as Little Russia. Guests visiting it, though, say its attractiveness is its Soviet past. Typically this has to do with the architecture...