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Barentsburg
Barentsburg is a now-mostly-abandoned Russian mining settlement on Svalbard. Only 450 people still live here, probably to maintain Russia's strategic presence in the Arctic.
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Barentsburg is a now-mostly-abandoned Russian mining settlement on Svalbard. Only 450 people still live here, probably to maintain Russia's strategic presence in the Arctic.
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