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Pyramiden (meaning "the pyramid" in most Scandinavian languages; called Пирамида, Piramida, in Russian) is a Russian settlement and coal mining community on the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. Founded by Sweden in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927, Pyramiden was closed in 1998 and has since remained largely abandoned with most of its infrastructure and buildings still in place. Since 2007 there have been efforts to make it a tourist attraction. == History == Pyramiden was founded by Sweden in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927. It lies at the foot of the Billefjorden on the island of Spitsbergen and is named for the pyramid-shaped mountain adjacent to the town. The nearest settlements are Svalbard's capital, Longyearbyen, some to the south, Barentsburg approximately south-west and the small research community of Ny-Ålesund, to the west. It is named after a nearby mountain which resembles a pyramid.〔 Owned by the state-owned Russian mining company Trust Arktikugol, which also owns the settlement of Barentsburg, Pyramiden once had a population of over 1,000 inhabitants. On March 31, 1998, the last coal was extracted from the mine and the last permanent resident left by October 10. Until 2007, Pyramiden was practically a ghost town where, within the buildings, things remained largely as they were when the settlement was abandoned in a hurry.〔(Pulling out of Pyramiden ). BBC News, 2 September 2000.〕 A book has been written about Pyramiden by Norwegian author Kjartan Fløgstad.〔(Fløgstad i Pyramiden : Dagsavisen )〕 A recent episode of the History Channel programme ''Life After People'' featured Pyramiden. It predicted that due to the low rate of decay in a frigid climate, the abandoned town's major buildings would be visible 500 years from now.〔(A Soviet Ghost Town in the Arctic Circle, Pyramiden Stands Alone ). Smithsonian magazine, 19 May 2014. 〕 The world's northernmost grand piano is located at Pyramiden; a "Red October" (Красный октябрь)〔("Red October" (Krasny Octyabr) )〕 grand piano is located in the auditorium of the cultural centre. In fact, the list of "northenmost" things may be arbitrarily long: the northernmost monument to Vladimir Lenin, the northernmost swimming pool, etc. 〔("Архипелаг никак" ) (retrieved April 19, 2015)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pyramiden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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