Kirovsk, the town at the end of the Soviet rainbow
Featured image: The once grand lobby of the abandoned train station in Kirovsk, Russia. Thousands of years ago on Russia’s…
Monchegorsk, Russia: an eco-friendly inferno
Murmansk, the largest city in the entire Arctic, is having a makeover. At the restaurant on the top floor of…
Meandering through Murmansk at midnight
Last week, I recounted my overland journey with thirty-some colleagues from Kirkenes, Norway to Murmansk, Russia. The five-hour road trip…