this city in 1906, the american engineer and entrepreneur john monrolongir founded the first coal minen this valley. today, longier is the largest settlement on svalbard and the northernmost city of the world, in which more than a thousand people live. in the summer, during the polar day, its population doubles, and during the polar night, it decreases again, part of the local residents move to spend the winter on the continent with a riot of colors . , so people in longears paint their houses in bright, juicy colors, which are already lacking in snow in the arctic. there lies 10 months of the year and a snowmobile. the main remedy movement. he is. for every inhabitant of longier, the parking of these cars on a green fu, which has broken through the ice that grows for a short time, looks all the more unusual in the summer. the miners' monument in the city center reminds us that the settlement owes its appearance to the regime of arctic coal; loaded trolleys suspended on cables powered by its own weight, the system functioned until the mid-eighties, when coal mining in naspiesbergen f