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Grumant (Russian: Грумант) is a former Soviet company town in Svalbard, Norway, established in 1912 and abandoned in 1965. The population—including Coles...

Barentsburg. It has carried out mining operations in the towns of Pyramiden and Grumant, which it still owns, and once operated a port at Colesbukta. The company...

Spitsbergen archipelago. Russians have traditionally called the archipelago Grumant (Грумант). The Soviet Union retained the name Spitsbergen (Шпицберген)...

Pyramiden is maintained as a tourist destination by Arctic Travel Company Grumant, a division of Arktikugol. Tours through many buildings are available upon...

Hornsund Harlingen kokerij Kobbefjorden Engelskbukta Gravneset Gåshamna Grumant Hiorthhamn Lægerneset Port Louis Smeerenburg Ytre Norskøya Sveagruva Note:...

permanent coal mining settlements had been established at Barentsburg, Grumant, Pyramiden, Svea and Ny-Ålesund. The Svalbard Treaty came into effect in...

Pyramiden – like the two other USSR-owned settlements on Spitsbergen, Grumant and Barentsburg – was administered largely without Norwegian insight, and...

and others in referring to the archipelago as Greenland, they named it Grumant (Грумант). The name Svalbard is first mentioned in Icelandic sagas of the...

the accidentally introduced southern vole, which is found only around Grumant. There are around eighteen species of marine mammal including whales, dolphins...

Sveagruva Former settlements Advent City Bölscheøya Finneset Gåshamna Grumant Hiorthhamn Isfjord Radio Kobbefjorden Lægerneset Ny-London Pyramiden Smeerenburg...

Scharnhorst, and nine destroyers to bombard Longyearbyen, Barentsburg and Grumant.: 75  Only four buildings in Longyearbyen survived: the hospital, the power...

searched for signs of life around Kapp Linné, Barenstburg, Green Harbour, Grumant and Longyearbyen, taking photographs and finding only destroyed buildings...

between 1624 and 1632, after which time it was appropriated by the Dutch) Grumant (Grumantbyen) (Грумант) (Russian settlement, abandoned in 1961, revival...

oversight, and according to Soviet societal norms. They included Barentsburg, Grumant, and Pyramiden. Out of these, at least two had farms – Pyramiden and Barentsburg...

developed by Dutch P.T.T. Barentsburg, mining town run by Arktikugol Grumant, ghost mining town run by Arktikugol Longyearbyen, former mining company...

Dispatch and the Trafalgar Way. Five replica Baltic packet schooners known as Grumant 58 were built between 1992 and 1996 in the Varyag shipyard in St Petersburg...

Sveagruva Former settlements Advent City Bölscheøya Finneset Gåshamna Grumant Hiorthhamn Isfjord Radio Kobbefjorden Lægerneset Ny-London Pyramiden Smeerenburg...

appears in some signage. Abandoned communities which spoke Russian include Grumant until 1961, and Pyramiden until 2000. The Arctic Yellow River Station was...

Soviet Union maintained a presence on the archipelago in Barentsburg, Grumant and Pyramiden through the coal-mining company Arktikugol. In 1958, Norsk...

Sveagruva Former settlements Advent City Bölscheøya Finneset Gåshamna Grumant Hiorthhamn Isfjord Radio Kobbefjorden Lægerneset Ny-London Pyramiden Smeerenburg...