Grumant (Russian: Грумант) is a former Soviet company town in Svalbard, Norway, established in 1912 and abandoned in 1965. The population—including Coles Bay, which served the settlement's port—peaked at 1,106 in 1951. The name Grumant is of Pomory origin, and is also used to refer to the whole of the Svalbard archipelago. It may be a corruption of Greenland, with which the land was confused.[1]
Grumant is on Spitsbergen, the largest of the Svalbard archipelago's islands, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west-southwest of Longyearbyen, the administrative centre.
^Reymert, Per Kyrre. "BARENTSBURG, PYRAMIDEN AND GRUMANT". Svalbard Museum. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
Grumant (Russian: Грумант) is a former Soviet company town in Svalbard, Norway, established in 1912 and abandoned in 1965. The population—including Coles...
Barentsburg. It has carried out mining operations in the towns of Pyramiden and Grumant, which it still owns, and once operated a port at Colesbukta. The company...
Spitsbergen archipelago. Russians have traditionally called the archipelago Grumant (Грумант). The Soviet Union retained the name Spitsbergen (Шпицберген)...
Pyramiden is maintained as a tourist destination by Arctic Travel Company Grumant, a division of Arktikugol. Tours through many buildings are available upon...
Pyramiden – like the two other USSR-owned settlements on Spitsbergen, Grumant and Barentsburg – was administered largely without Norwegian insight, and...
and others in referring to the archipelago as Greenland, they named it Grumant (Грумант). The name Svalbard is first mentioned in Icelandic sagas of the...
permanent coal mining settlements had been established at Barentsburg, Grumant, Pyramiden, Svea and Ny-Ålesund. The Svalbard Treaty came into effect in...
Scharnhorst, and nine destroyers to bombard Longyearbyen, Barentsburg and Grumant.: 75 Only four buildings in Longyearbyen survived: the hospital, the power...
searched for signs of life around Kapp Linné, Barenstburg, Green Harbour, Grumant and Longyearbyen, taking photographs and finding only destroyed buildings...
the accidentally introduced southern vole, which is found only around Grumant. There are around eighteen species of marine mammal including whales, dolphins...
between 1624 and 1632, after which time it was appropriated by the Dutch) Grumant (Grumantbyen) (Грумант) (Russian settlement, abandoned in 1961, revival...
appears in some signage. Abandoned communities which spoke Russian include Grumant until 1961, and Pyramiden until 2000. The Arctic Yellow River Station was...
oversight, and according to Soviet societal norms. They included Barentsburg, Grumant, and Pyramiden. Out of these, at least two had farms – Pyramiden and Barentsburg...
developed by Dutch P.T.T. Barentsburg, mining town run by Arktikugol Grumant, ghost mining town run by Arktikugol Longyearbyen, former mining company...
used to operate at a number of locations, in particular at Ny-Ålesund and Grumant (built by the Norwegians and Soviets respectively). Most of these railways...
Badygin. Men of the Ice-breaker Sedov, Hutchinsons, London Verschollen in Grumant, Kultur und Fortschritt, Berlin 1960 812 Tage im Eis der Arktis – Die Drift...
reindeer, and accidentally introduced southern vole—which is only found in Grumant. Attempts to introduce the Arctic hare and the muskox have both failed...
destroyers bombarded the settlements of Longyearbyen, Barentsburg and Grumant on Spitsbergen. The United States signed a military assistance treaty with...
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