Pyramid settlement on Svalbard Bashny.Net

In the scientific and the popular TV series "Life After People" Pyramid village, located in the archipelago of Svalbard, is shown as a clear example of how the remnants of civilization will look like 10 years after the disappearance of people. Finnish photographer Ville Lankkeri (Ville Lenkkeri) presented photocycle "place with no roads," which talked about what it looks like today, once a successful mountain village.





Permission for coal mining in the archipelago was obtained Swede Bertil Hёgbom in 1910, simultaneously with the construction of the first mine came and settlement workers Pyramid, named in honor of the pyramid-shaped mountain, at the foot of which were built. Since 1931 the village passed to the Soviet regime, but during the war, the miners were evacuated from the archipelago, and in 1946 returned 609 explorers here, then began building the first street of houses.



Villa Lankkeri - 43-year-old photographer originally from Finland. In 2009, he published a monograph «The Place of no Roads».



In 1960-80-ies in the Pyramid lived for more than a thousand people were built multi-storey capital building, swimming pool, library, conservatory and a shallow port for receiving coal. Prosperously lived here, and it seemed that the crisis will never touch this remote region. Despite the bright prospects, at the end of the 1990s, productivity has fallen sharply mine, and it was decided to preserve the village. Villa Lankkeri in its photocycle showed how gradually destroyed Pyramid.