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costs strategically located halfway between north america and western europe the spitzbergen archipelago is part of norway with 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 stars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. it is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but trans of profit is far behind local souvenir shops so obviously my bill it is a big hit the defunct are in curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a russian. plane rumbles are on the. euros the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts and not very popular with tourists operators if you come into a very authentic place like bonds should stay the

russian settlements and spitzbergen have greener grass because of the several loads of black soil that was brought here from siberia in soviet times it legally treat the longest in norway and nine hundred twenty agreement guarantees its signature is the right to conduct industrial activity on the archipelago an option fully utilized only by moscow that for decades has been mining coal here. coal produced here has always been afraid to x. ponce of but back in soviet times it was not an issue of the konami's but rather of politics moscow needed to maintain in smiling face here it is bergen at any cost without production volumes have going to build just a fraction of what they used to be. one seeming russian presence here is still considered a matter of strategic importance of the soviet markets die hard the mines equipment hasn't changed much in the last fifty years while they ask the composition of the workforce what makes a beautiful solvent nostalgia. i'm twenty seven years old so i don't have clear memories of the soviet union but i just assume its spirit is very well preserved here we have people here from ukraine central asia and we all feel like citizens of one co