Pyramiden is an abandoned mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. It was built in 1910 by Swedish miners to extract coal and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927 (still being Norwegian territory). When the coal extraction was no longer profitable, the Russian government closed down the settlement in 1998. During its peak in Soviet times (between the 60s and the 80s), Pyramiden was inhabited by over 1000 people and had many facilities: a hospital, a sports hall, a swimming pool, a cultural center with a theater and a library, a kindergarten, a school, and a canteen. Now it is considered a ghost town and since 2007 there have been efforts to make it a tourist attraction. The images of the gallery are all devoted to the abandoned canteen (which was open 24 hours a day when the settlement was flourishing).