Pyramiden: Population 6

Pyramiden: population 6. The Soviet ghost town frozen in time high in the Arctic ‘Maybe I’m the northernmost headbanger in the world.’ Once a thriving Soviet mining settlement, Pyramiden, located far above the Arctic Circle on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, has been almost entirely abandoned since it was shut down in 1998. Now a tourist attraction, the sprawling ghost town is home to just six year-round residents. Pyramiden chronicles the quiet, largely solitary life of one of them, Aleksandr Romanovsky,