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Pyramiden mining settlement
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Pyramiden mining settlement

Посёлок Пирамида (трест «Арктикуголь»)
NorwayПирамида1927Industrial sites
A settlement on the western shore of Billefjorden, named after the adjacent pyramid-shaped mountain. The coal claim, made by a Swedish expedition in 1910, was sold in 1926–1927 to the Soviet company Anglo-Russian Grumant and passed to the Arktikugol trust in 1931. Mining resumed in 1948; after the war a cultural centre, swimming pool, school, library and greenhouses were built here.
Посёлок на западном берегу Билле-фьорда, названный по соседней горе пирамидальной формы. Угольный участок, заявленный шведской экспедицией в 1910 году, в 1926–1927 годах был продан советской компании «Англо-Русский Грумант», а в 1931 году перешёл к тресту «Арктикуголь». Добыча возобновилась в 1948 году; после войны здесь построили дом культуры, бассейн, школу, библиотеку и теплицы.

Property abroad

EraUSSR
FunctionCommercial office
Present ownerArktikugol State Trust (Russian federal state unitary enterprise)
Acquisitionpurchased, 1927
StatusIn use
As of2025-10
According to Store norske leksikon (October 2025), coal mining ended in 1998; the settlement remains the property of the Arktikugol trust and receives tourists.

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