Arktikugol Archives - Remnant Earth

Fort Eben-Emael

Fort Eben-Emael: The Belgian Fortress Taken From the Sky in 1940 Places

Pointe du Hoc

Pointe du Hoc: The Cliff the Rangers Climbed on D-Day Places

Villa Epecuen

Villa Epecuén: The Argentine Resort Drowned by a Salt Lake Places

Project Riese

Project Riese: Hitler’s Unfinished Tunnels in the Owl Mountains Places

Pyramiden

Pyramiden: The Soviet Coal Town at 78 Degrees North Places

Balaklava Submarine Base

Balaklava Submarine Base: Crimea’s Nuclear-Proof Submarine Tunnel Places

Skrunda-1

Skrunda-1: The Soviet Radar Town That Listened to the West Places

Operation Doorstep

Operation Doorstep: The Atomic Bomb Dropped on an American Home Events

Places

Grumant: A Lost Soviet Outpost in the High Arctic

Above Svalbard's Isfjorden, the ruins of Grumant mark a Russian and Soviet coal town that was evacuated in the war, shelled, rebuilt, and abandoned for good in the 1960s.

Places

Coles Bay Mining Settlement: The Abandoned Soviet Coal Port of Svalbard

On the shore of Isfjorden, Colesbukta was the shipping end of a Soviet coal chain, and its ruins, a cabin museum and a lonely cemetery are still there.

Places

Pyramiden: The Soviet Coal Town at 78 Degrees North

Founded by Swedes in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927, Pyramiden was a showcase mining town on Spitsbergen with more than a thousand residents. Mining ended on 31 March 1998, the people left within months, and the cold has kept the town almost as they left it.