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????️ Enjoy an exclusive 60% discount on Incogni with the code MAMYTWINK: https://incogni.com/mamytwink Pyramiden, the ghost town of the North Pole, is a former Soviet mining colony located on the Svalbard archipelago, 1250 km from the pole. For 50 years, in the middle of the Cold War, the city was a showcase for the USSR. Today, it is abandoned. Only a few guards watch over this open-air museum, witness to a bygone era. Thanks to our images filmed on site and the unpublished archives that we were able to recover, discover the strange story of Pyramiden, the ghost town of the North Pole. Our books War Stories: ???? (NEW????) War Stories - The Forgotten Heroes: https://amzn.to/3Ev1FXv or https://www.fnac.com/a16977758/Mamytw... ???? War Stories (volume 1): https://amzn.to/35AuoKm or https://www.fnac.com/a14809979/Mamytw... Thanks to the entire team who participated in the preparation of this documentary. Director: François Calvier, Florian Henn Writer: Florian Henn, Julien Aubrée Voiceover: Pierre-Alain de Garrigues ( / padg_officiel ) Filming: François Calvier, Nicolas Mathieux ( / @nicomathieux ) Editing: François Calvier Production assistant: Mathias Corrard Historical advisor: Patrick Godfard Graphics: Julian Benini Marketing: Mathieu Parrot Voiceover recording: Bellagio Studios (http://www.bellagio.studio/) Color grading: Alexis Muller Translations: Alba Rubio Y Romero, Ilya Afanasev Set filming: François Calvier Makeup: Angéline Aron-Clauss ( / angelinearon_mua ) Thanks to: Jochen Mönning for his welcome and his testimony. Katerina and Lada, from Grumant Arctic Travel Company (https://www.goarctica.com) and Emmanuel Poudelet for their help in organizing the filming. The Svalbard Museum (https://svalbardmuseum.no/) and especially Haakon Unhammer Kvaale for opening their database of rare and unpublished archives of Pyramiden to us. Finally, thanks to the CNC and Incogni for their support. New video once a month, on Tuesdays at 6pm! Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Mamytwin... Social networks: ➜ Instagram: / mamytwink ➜ Facebook: / mamytwink ➜ Twitter: / mamytwink Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Mamytwin... ⚠️ Warning: This video is a documentary about Pyramiden, a former Soviet mining colony near the North Pole. This is a historical work and in no way a film in support of the Russian government. The film also pays tribute to the miners in the colony, many of whom were originally from Donbass in Ukraine. Documentary sources: Kjartan Fløgstad, “Pyramiden: Portrait of an abandoned utopia”, 2009, https://amzn.to/43MUfKj Jan Kavan and Barbora Halašková, “The rise and fall of Pyramiden: The story of a town in a wider geopolitical and environmental context”, Cambridge University Press, 2022: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa... ида - Арктикуголь (Official website of Arktikugol, the Russian mining company): https://www.arcticugol.ru/index.php/r... Svalbard Museum: https://svalbardmuseum.no/ Aeon Video, “Pyramiden, Population 6: The Soviet ghost town frozen in time”: • The Soviet ghost town frozen in time... Soviet film from 1931 on the Svalbard: • Документальный фильм о Груманте. Колс... Barentsburg and Pyramiden - 1992 film: • Баренцбург - Пирамида Шпицберген (Sva... Miner from Pyramiden who performs a song: • Песни Бур га.wmv Photographs and music by Pyramiden: • Pyramiden old photos MOVIE ISAN: ISAN 0000-0006-5914-0000-B-0000-0000-4