Barentsburg

Barentsburg
Russian coal mining settlement
The town from above
The town from above
Barentsburg is located in Svalbard
Barentsburg
Barentsburg
Location in western Svalbard
Coordinates: 78°04′0″N 14°13′0″E / 78.06667°N 14.21667°E / 78.06667; 14.21667
Sovereign state Norway
SysselSvalbard
IslandSpitsbergen
Population
 (2020)
 • Total455[1][note 1]
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Barentsburg (Russian: Баренцбург) is the second-largest settlement in Svalbard, Norway, with about 455 inhabitants (2020).[note 1] A coal mining town, the settlement was almost entirely made up of ethnic Russians and Ukrainians. With the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, most of the Ukrainian citizens were reported to have left.[2]

  1. ^ "Population of Svalbard, 1st half-year 2020". ssb.no. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  2. ^ Nilsen, Thomas (11 May 2023). "Barentsburg: "Everyone was told to stop posting opinions about the war"". The Barents Observer. Retrieved 2023-08-18.


Cite error: There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=note}} template (see the help page).


© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search