School playground in the Russian coal mining settlement of Barentsburg, Spitsbergen, Svalbard.
Barentsburg is the second largest settlement on Svalbard, with about 500 inhabitants, almost entirely Russians and Ukrainians. The Russians have been mining coal here since 1932. Although Svalbard is under Norwegian sovereignty, the unique Svalbard Treaty of 1920 allows citizens of signatory countries equal rights to exploit natural resources. Currently, Russia is the only country to maintain such a presence.
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Photo credit: © Stuart Melvin / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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