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twenty four. what's this boy's life why is it so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world. in the city's present and future. so. this is the moment they're very cold snowy windy mountain. on the olympics but. today. spitzbergen is the starting point for expeditions to the north pole a little over a thousand kilometers away. each day. continues today. in just ten days

the sun will stop rising above the horizon all together. no it will begin. like it is on the mainland in the middle of the night. which will just. star. three or four seasons here. those people on the island because of the harsh environment but a very small few have chosen to live here. we go home yes. my legs are frozen just like a fish like. book

and be careful. in mid november the arctic night descends on the archipelago. to greet it the norwegian town of longyearbyen ogunnaike is a special ceremony. for many years the it was declared terra nullus whole belonging to nobody it wasn't until nine hundred twenty that the islands became norwegian territory but even today they enjoy a unique status. in any country that signed the spitzbergen treaty can freely and gauge in commercial activity here no visa or is needed to visit the island and there are no customs or border posts anyone on the planet can come and settle on the archipelago has just one condition they must be self-sufficient.

in some. places so special because the little people came here and they really didn't know we had already they are they calls i think ok and already are closer to north korea. and other people know all its foreign i would scooters and everything about. four hundred times the better change very fast like rojas. this is could be very bad. if you are. about to sell some five hundred people live on the island but knowing the number of bears is more of a challenge there are at least three thousand certainly more than their own people . you know. i don't like to call my own heart and just as we. learn history here right well it's

a very rough i'm sure. everyone. there have you come a little over. hiring a rifle here is as easy as hiring a scooter but if a bag gets shot the investigation into whether it was really killed in self defense is a sorrow as it would be from a. bill and is indeed an unusual place shops provide special lockers where customers can store their guns while shopping and while deer amble freely in the streets. there is a distinct russian spirit in this small norwegian telling me two countries currently maintain a presence on the island russia and norway. this is a reason why the american i hear it is not are. going to go or because they have

a russian. yeah let me thank you these people took an interest in the russian language for a reason they often visit the town of balanced budget for decades the neighboring towns have shared visits for sporting events. we may be different in many aspects but i'm sure everyone's happy to have a neighbor pool you see there are no other neighbors around here. and we've had a lot of enjoyable meetings in baron's burg. often how you're leaving for work yes you have a regular working day of course not it's a holiday today hardly there are no holidays in the mind two years ago maxim to above came to spitzbergen alone to see how it would work out. many people can't

bear being separated from their relatives is not everyone manages to move their families here. you can not everyone can cope with the atmosphere in this arctic night. he left his wife and three children at home. we didn't feel anything for the first six months. then mum started missing dad. and so did we. well he wasn't there we could only talk on skype he had to call me every day as soon as he was home from work. knowing that he was safely back from the mine was the most important thing for me. two months ago the duble family at last moved to barrett's burg. and i'd like to spend at least ten years here and i want to settle properly and save enough money to buy flats for my

kids. i do your homework yet a bit. i haven't seen you for ages so does it feel better having your family with you or do you need to ask you must feel more like a real man yes. in the past barron's bug was always a male domain not a place for women with children. men still account for the majority of the population. there are no old or socially disadvantaged people here. every inhabitant of the island has to be young and healthy enough to be able to work because. my grandfather worked here in nine hundred fifty six so that he spent two years on this island and dad always dreamed of going where his own

father had worked that issue came in two thousand and eight with my mom at the end in two thousand and nine my wife and i came here to you know i think that i'm the head of the tourist agency and the hotel administrator that's part of my job description. some of them was just although it's my wife's job to deal with the mail that rests on my shoulders too. difficult so why not during tourist season i also work as a guide. you know and when we have excursions i work in the souvenir shop in the morning i teach english at the local school which is why i'm not in the office. there's only one employer in. coal is a russian state owned company everything in the village the houses shops and canteen old belong to the.

people can only get tibetans once every two months. both cooks they decided to change after a wedding anniversary stephanie has brought her two children to be with her husband . has come alone. will. not. come without her husband that's a first. about a year ago another woman came on her own she left pretty soon though. she was an accountant. usually it's the other way around.

well after their husbands men try to find jobs for their wives on the island mist of the season. new arrivals go there beside the personal department. brings her children with her. there's no one else to babysit because everyone has to work. arctic cold also owns a productive mine the parents. everyone has to attend a briefing when they first get here. there is going to work at a sauna she'll start as soon as the children are going to kindergarten but first they have to get used to their new home. movies and the kids study whimpering and i decided to leave so we wouldn't disturb anyone. it's always dark outside so i'm constantly sleepy and my eyes hurt but i'll get

used to it. but other people cope somehow so will i will wait for the light i hope will settle here well like the place. now the main thing is for the kids to adapt to the climate and be healthy. the first contract is usually for six months a second for two years on average people have spent four to five years in balance back but there seems to be changing workers or nell spending longer periods of time here renting furnished apartments and the arctic cold trust is renovating many of the houses and was there a t.v. set yes so there it's so nice just great. to see you everyone loves this place it's nice and tidy. new residents meet up at the home supply store everyone has

a long shopping list. because the small pan. i think our first two paychecks will be spent in thailand household number one two and the third one as well there's no cash on balance budget in two thousand and eleven there was an attempt to introduce a local currency called the bone but norwegians were unhappy about the idea of bank notes circulating on we just saw oil with the russian federation printed on them. it's rumored that to avoid conflict the government decided not to use any money at all. the normal bank cards don't work here either the shops only accept a special internal card which is given to all of coles employees everyone sets their own credit limit and the balance is a ventilated ducted from salaries. it's easy squirreling money away because there

is nothing to spend it on no restaurants are discos i am sure that if we do you manage to leave here for some time it will be closer to each other to just those dollars that my uncle told me about people living their husbands and wives for other men and women. it must be an island of temptation here. he survived war atrocities. to make a final decision. has changed his life and the world around him. by giving up. hope.

and love to so many children. nikolai the american worker on t.v. . put it on your show marginalized should be making news all the face i think sometimes people moan. a pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i roll research or.

go to kindergarten my daughter asks me does none it's still duck we're going to be it will always be dark now i tell her the sun has gone to sleep she says i want to go home i don't want to live by the sea she thought it would be warm and sunny. through the whole four hundred and. people in balance but including a hundred and thirty women and fifty five children no one is born on the island it's against the rules that pregnant women must return to the mainland. spitzbergen children never catch colds the virus survive here. it's only the newly arrived to bring infections to the island. that's why children are always quarantined for their first ten days when they can't go to school or kindergarten. sometimes though

children just can't adjust to the climate. their parents either have to send them away or leave the island for good it's too cold to go outside so the kids wrap up to play in an unheated hall where they can exercise without being exposed to the elements even though the temperature is almost the same as outside the kids are protected from the biting optic wind. ok see itself down ok well. thank.

you again heavy i know i'm not. the only. and his brother is in the first year but all the students sit together in one classroom irrespective of age. the teacher gives each student individual assignments and then checks them separately. after classes the children stay in school there's nowhere else to go and the teachers always try hard to find new ways to entertain them. you know. it was useless i realized why running small difficulty here is what is the add pressure on the island is higher than on the mainland and it's not difficult to brief. you the worst of them all but you sometimes i ask myself if a normal life would make it easier for him in the future when. i still don't really

know. that i'm not sure if we've made the right choice. although the spitsbergen coal reserves are being depleted to continue mining is a matter of principle a presence on the go is a political imperative for both russia norway. the mind works around the clock so the adults work in shifts they often leave as early as six in the morning leaving to wake the younger kids. but also when the alarm clock goes off. i wake marine or in the silly they want to stay in bed we're going to still duck where are we going they ask. a bush marina's teeth i

mean obviously does he's own. style you cannot put the kettle on and dress them. for when i grow up i'll move to the mainland and go to university. all. i want to be an interpreter. not going to make good money. but it's always good to know a foreign language. the most important event in autumn is the annual sports competition. people from the norwegian to. visit the russian to attend. it's a tradition that dates back many years some say it began as early as the nine hundred thirty s. when both norway and the soviet union was still new to the occupy.

the norwegians told their neighbors their traditional game cold. we never even seen a stick before when we started playing we didn't know the rules and we were constantly asking questions now we've got the hang of it no one wants. us but. i think we're on equal ground we're good at volleyball and always win at basketball we're about even in football and as for chess we've got a new player who will bring us victory. all

the competitions held symbol to flee. winning is a matter of both countries especially when it comes to football and bundy. only twice in the competition's history as the better to be from the norwegians at the national game. the second time was last year but fortune wasn't to smile on them this time. the football had the fans on the edge of their seats with the team's neck and neck. as though the russians proved victorious. i lost two games. and i played with and walnuts as well. there's my

boy. did you know the done he did clever boy. surprisingly the basketball game is the most dramatic. the norwegians are less than happy with the referee and one spectator is quite indignant. i don't know much. do we need a ref at all no referee you can do without a raf while you are afraid let him do it while you do it but him referee give him away still. go over there. there'll be two of you go on. to referees take to the court. the people of spitzbergen do know how to compromise . there are more than forty different ethnicities living together on the island no more than life demands tolerance and cooperation if it's to be survived.

thank you. the sporting event is one of the very few opportunities people have to socialize and meet up especially during the long arctic night. you work here. and you just visit. working often. just so mike ok and table tennis are football well ok. it was good but you got one. better asparagus now making ambitious plans to

develop its own tourist industry. the abandoned mining town. will be home to the new russian tourists. and there's no people there so it's kind of like a ghost town there was one guy named toby. he tried to go for a hike so. it took him by two weeks and he had had to get. picked up by a fisherman because you have no more food left so i think you should only do it if you have a yeah. but it can only be reached in daylight and the devil is already of. the for when the polar ends and the snowmobile season begins the archipelagos russian six will be teeming with people her.

watching all the tourists there's this they like watching us locals picking up the kids from school the guide probably tells them where the natives. that we have to say hi and smile we go to work or come home shopping or just walk and they're gone yeah that's it we stay right back. but that won't happen until the poland and the northern sun has risen again. for now people only venture away from the settlement for emergencies perhaps to repair vital and hard to reach equipment no one leaves the village without a very good reason. that usually people only leave the village to admired the beauty of spitzbergen or want but what can they see at night from

nothing. there's absolutely nothing to see. during the long polar night the residents tend to live ordinary workaday lives. new arrivals are given time to get their bearings but today is oldest first day at work. i was anxious. to do everything on time. but i managed it fine the husband and he starts work tomorrow he's here nell to support his wife we're going to spend at least two years here but we'll have to see how it goes to here is a long time maybe six months will do it. before starting to work independently he later will shadow a colleague for a few days. i have a boyfriend. but i'm not sure she'll come here.

stephanie children couldn't started kindergarten because one of them has a cold only time will tell if he can cope with the climate i was. playing very near behave. like yeah well i don't like it and tomorrow you go to kindergarten yes. and let's proceed see if you. just. that the weather is awful look how strong the wind days and it's so dark. and it will stay daughter until the next day begins.

if you. got no opportunity. to start to construct your own little currency. no longer be a bit give don't want to be gangstas in a lot of. dog they don't want that blow you know the time that the kid came to be we can see. you just needs a zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero problems in the hood if you know some very very wrong. but i said. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young young.

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