Photographer Finds Polar Bears That Took Over Abandoned Buildings
Kolyuchin Island: A Now-Abandoned Polar Bear Playground
Kolyuchin Island is found just 6.8 miles (11km) north of Russia’s Chukotka Peninsula, and the tiny tundra-covered island measures 2.8 miles (4.5km) in length with a maximum width of just 0.93 miles (1.5km).
“[A]bout nine months a year the sea around the island is covered with ice,” Russia Beyond writes. “There are no residential settlements on Kolyuchin Island (although archeologists established that these places were inhabited 1,500 years ago).
“In 1934, Soviet scientists built a polar station of the Northern Sea Route here. It functioned until 1992, when it was closed. The island was then abandoned.”
One of Kokh’s photos from his series, which shows a polar bear leaning out of a broken window, won the prize for “Best Image of Wildlife in an Anthropogenic Environment” in a 2021 Russian photography contest organized by National Geographic.
Kolyuchin Island is found just 6.8 miles (11km) north of Russia’s Chukotka Peninsula, and the tiny tundra-covered island measures 2.8 miles (4.5km) in length with a maximum width of just 0.93 miles (1.5km).
“[A]bout nine months a year the sea around the island is covered with ice,” Russia Beyond writes. “There are no residential settlements on Kolyuchin Island (although archeologists established that these places were inhabited 1,500 years ago).
“In 1934, Soviet scientists built a polar station of the Northern Sea Route here. It functioned until 1992, when it was closed. The island was then abandoned.”
One of Kokh’s photos from his series, which shows a polar bear leaning out of a broken window, won the prize for “Best Image of Wildlife in an Anthropogenic Environment” in a 2021 Russian photography contest organized by National Geographic.
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26 March 2023
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