s. daryn's work was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs to clear located halfway between north america and western europe bergen archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of western most outposts now it's one of the soviet union's last preserved relics. it is essentially a picture of the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades curious for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russians travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local souvenir shops so between. i believe it is a big hit the defunct are incurred still helps keep the money flowing. it's the russians who in your words you can simply. make your own also. your local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards if these modernization efforts not very popular with touri