Tag: Kolyuchin Island


  • Polar bears seize abandoned Russian Arctic research station

    Polar bears seize abandoned Russian Arctic research station

    Drone captures bears at an abandoned research station In a striking late-summer scene, a group of polar bears has moved into an abandoned Soviet polar research station on Kolyuchin Island, a remote outpost off Russia’s far northeastern coast. The site sits in the Chukchi Sea, where scientists once studied polar conditions before the Soviet era…

  • Polar Bears Take Over Abandoned Soviet Station in the Russian Arctic

    Polar Bears Take Over Abandoned Soviet Station in the Russian Arctic

    Overview: Polar bears at an abandoned Soviet station In late summer daylight, a drone video captured a group of polar bears roaming the shattered remains of a Soviet-era polar research station on Kolyuchin Island, a small outpost off Russia’s far-northern coast in the Chukchi Sea. Travel blogger Vadim Makhorov filmed bears entering and exiting the…

  • Polar bears take over abandoned Soviet station on Arctic island

    Polar bears take over abandoned Soviet station on Arctic island

    Polar bears take over an abandoned Arctic outpost In late summer, a group of polar bears has taken up residence around an abandoned Soviet-era polar research station on Kolyuchin Island, a bleak outpost off Russia’s far-north-eastern coast in the Chukchi Sea. Drone footage captured by a travel photographer shows bears roaming in and out of…