#GLIMPSES SOVIET TOWN NORWEGIAN ISLE MOVIE#

We’ll explore the rumour that you aren’t allowed to be born, or to die in Svalbard. These Norwegians hadn’t been part of recorded Norwegian history at all he says. Later he would meet many more Kola Norwegians. The Kola Norwegian spoke fluent Norwegian, a kind of old-fashioned Finnmark dialect. They say there are more polar bears than people in Svalbard and that you have to carry a rifle everywhere, in case you meet one this is the film to find out the facts. Jentoft remembers the incredible moment in January 1990 when, as a journalist, he met his first Kola Norwegian, Bjarne Jørstad. If you want to know who first discovered the archipelago and when, and what country it’s a part of now, then our film is the place to come.

#GLIMPSES SOVIET TOWN NORWEGIAN ISLE MOVIE#

Even the name, Svalbard, fires the imagination, but do you know what it actually means? Our movie Frequently asked questions about Svalbard explores the facts and fictions that surround this remarkable place. And no, there are no hidden loudspeakers playing the Beatles. Here you will find the Norwegian settlements of Longyearbyen and Ny-lesund and the Russian village Barentsburg. Abandoned twenty years ago, Pyramiden coal-mining town on the northern edge of the world is a preserved display of what the Soviet Union wanted to offer in the Arctic if communism worked. Svalbard, an arctic archipelago of snow, mountains and ice, far to the north, inspires wonder, curiosity and a multitude of questions. This was once upon a time the worlds northernmost kindergarten and primary school. Frequently asked questions about Svalbard

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