ipernity: 2015 Norway by Revenki

Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

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The famous northernmost statue of Lenin in the world.

Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

76

The hospital, reputed to have had more and better doctors per capita than any other municipality in the Soviet Union back in the day.

Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

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The famous northernmost statue of Lenin in the world.

Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

77

The main square, which, per a joke from the guide, had an impressively long name in Russian having to do with the sixtieth anniversary of the October Revolution. Not a terse language, Russian... The town looks considerably less bleak here. Felt more like visiting a summer camp in the winter time.

Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

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Imagine Chernobyl, but without an inch of radioactive dust over everything. Everything left behind was in remarkably good condition after nineteen years of abandonment, apart from water-damaged parquet floors in a couple rooms upstairs.

Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

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Imagine Chernobyl, but without an inch of radioactive dust over everything. Everything left behind was in remarkably good condition after nineteen years of abandonment, apart from water-damaged parquet floors in a couple rooms upstairs.

Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

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Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

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A long exposure of the theater. I had no idea what the room looked like until a week later when I looked at the images - pitch black inside.

Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

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"It's not the size of the guitars that concerns me. It's that they have three sides ." The musical instruments weren't what was disturbing about this room. It was the soundproofing that (you never know) might have made it useful to the KGB.

Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

66

The musical instruments weren't what was disturbing about this room. It was the soundproofing that (you never know) might have made it useful to the KGB.

Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

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While I thought the music room was more subtly disturbing, the most common overheard descriptor for the dance instruction room among the other tourists was "creepy". Might have been due to the dresses hung here and there, like ghosts.

Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

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While I thought the music room was more subtly disturbing, the most common overheard descriptor for the dance instruction room among the other tourists was "creepy". Might have been due to the dresses hung here and there, like ghosts.

Pyramida Cruise

12 Jul 2015

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It struck me as odd that a fieldhouse in the far arctic north wouldn't have a complete loop for jogging in the winter months. I mean, you've already got two sides! How hard is it to go the rest of the way around?