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Polar bears take over abandoned Soviet-era research station

A remote Arctic island once used as a Soviet weather station has become overrun by polar bears. On Kolyuchin Island, in Russia’s Chukchi Sea, dozens of bears now roam through abandoned buildings and peer from shattered windows. The Kolyuchin weather station was abandoned in the early 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. 1 of 14 An aerial view of an abandoned research station on Koluchin Island, off Chukotka, Russia, in the country s Far East. AP 2 of 14 An aerial view of an...


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