Polar bear and miner mural, Barentsburg

78 degree north crest, showing a coal miner with two Norwegian and Russian polar bears on a wall at Barentsburg, a Russian coal mining town in the Norwegian Archipelego of Svalbard. Once home to about 2000 miners and their families, less than 500 people now live here.

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78 degree north crest, showing a coal miner with two Norwegian and Russian polar bears on a wall at Barentsburg, a Russian coal mining town in the Norwegian Archipelego of Svalbard. Once home to about 2000 miners and their families, less than 500 people now live here.