Cold Storage: Photographing the Abandoned Soviet Town Pyramiden
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In 1998, the last coal was extracted from Pyramiden, a Soviet mining town about 800 miles from the North Pole—residents abandoned the town a few months later. Capturing the remnants of a town frozen in time, photojournalist Christopher Michel visited Pyramiden in 2016, an experience "both eerie and wonderful."
By Natasha Bluth