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Barentsburg

Barentsburg (Баренцбург) is a pint-sized but fascinating open-air museum of the Soviet Union in Svalbard, where 300 hardy coal miners continue to work in one of the northernmost settlements on Earth.

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  1. Buy

    Handicraft center

    Russian-style souvenirs here, made by locals. There are workshops for baking, painting and making finger puppets.

  2. Buy

    Polar Star

    Souvenir shop offering matryoshka dolls, Lenin pins and assorted other Soviet-Russian kitsch.