Photographer Captures Polar Bears That Took Over Abandoned Buildings

Russian photographer Dmitry Kokh captured polar bears at an abandoned weather station in the far east part of the Russian Arctic. He had to take a long journey to take photos of polar bears on Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea.

Dmitry Kokh captured polar bears at an abandoned weather station in the far east part of the Russian Arctic

Kokh says ‘I always wanted to get some nice shots of polar bears, and that was the main target of our expedition. We expected to meet them mostly on Wrangel Island, famous all around the world for being home to many bears. Not this year, as we found out later—maybe because of the very cold summer. But nature always sends you something when you least expect it—when we passed by Kolyuchin Island near the Northern coast of Chukotka, we saw some movement in the abandoned windows there. And when we got close—those were bears! Never before were they seen in those buildings, so that was a once-in-a-lifetime situation’.

‘I always wanted to get some nice shots of polar bears, and that was the main target of our expedition… That was a once-in-a-lifetime situation’