Transport from Longyearbyen to Barentsburg () and Pyramiden () is possible by snowmobile by winter, or by ship all year round.

Transport from Longyearbyen to Barentsburg () and Pyramiden () is possible by snowmobile during winter, or by ship all year round.

The administrative center is Longyearbyen, and other settlements, in addition to research outposts, are the Russian mining community of Barentsburg, the research community of Ny-Ålesund and the mining outpost of Sveagruva.

Transport from Longyearbyen to Barentsburg () and Pyramiden () is possible by snowmobile by winter, or by ship all year round.

Barentsburg () is the second largest settlement on Svalbard, with about 500 inhabitants ( 2007 ), almost entirely Russians and Ukrainians.

The distance from Longyearbyen to Barentsburg is about 55 km but there are no roads connecting the two settlements.

Coal is still mined in Barentsburg and regularly exported to ( generally ) buyers within Northern Europe.

Beyond the mining-related activity, there is a scientific research center in Barentsburg.

It is the third largest settlement in the archipelago ( after Longyearbyen and Barentsburg ).

An important part of the position is to maintain good working relations with the Russian community in Barentsburg.

The only " casualties " occurred when the rearguard at Barentsburg had accessed the vodka stores and had to be carried aboard.

Since 2007, there has not been any significant mining by the Russian state-owned Arktikugol in Barentsburg.

Norway grants permission for any nation to conduct research on Svalbard, resulting in the Polish Polar Station and the Chinese Arctic Yellow River Station, plus Russian facilities in Barentsburg.

Since 2007, there has not been any significant mining by the Russian state-owned Arktikugol in Barentsburg.

Norway grants permission for any nation to conduct research on Svalbard, resulting in the Polish Polar Station, Indian Himadri Station, and the Chinese Arctic Yellow River Station, plus Russian facilities in Barentsburg.

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The Barents Sea, Barentsburg and Barents Region were all named after him.

There are heliports in Barentsburg and Pyramiden, and helicopters are frequently used by the governor and to a less extent the mining company Arktikugol.

There are heliports in Barentsburg and Pyramiden, and helicopters are frequently used by the governor and to a lesser extent the mining company Arktikugol.

Arktikugol operates helicopters to Barentsburg and Pyramiden.

Sustainable mining started in 1906 with the establishment of Longyearbyen and by the 1920s, permanent coal mining settlements had been established at Barentsburg, Grumant, Pyramiden, Svea and Ny-Ålesund.

Swedish interests established mines at Pyramiden and Sveagruva, while Dutch investors established Barentsburg in 1920.

Schools were closed in 1994 and children and mothers were sent to the mainland, reducing the population of Barentsburg to 800 and of Pyramiden to 600.

A Norwegian expedition was in May 1942 sent to liberate the island ; they were attacked by German aircraft, but were able to set up a garrison in Barentsburg.

On 8 September a battalion of German troops was landed, supported by naval gunfire, seizing the facilities at Barentsburg and forcing the Norwegian garrison to withdraw into the hinterland.

Ny-Ålesund and Barentsburg remain company towns with all infrastructure owned by Kings Bay and Arktikugol, respectively.

Russia retains a consulate in Barentsburg.

Within Longyearbyen, Barentsburg and Ny-Ålesund, there are road systems, but they do not connect with each other.

* Russia has an embassy in Oslo and consulates in Barentsburg and Kirkenes.

Ny-Ålesund and Barentsburg remain company towns with all infrastructure owned by Kings Bay and Arktikugol, respectively.

Within Longyearbyen, Barentsburg and Ny-Ålesund, there are road systems, but they do not connect with each other.

After the British Operation Fritham regained control of Barentsburg, the German forces left Longyearbyen without combat.

In September 1943, the Kriegsmarine dispatched two battleships, Tirpitz and Scharnhorst, and nine destroyers to bombard Longyearbyen, Barentsburg and Grumant.

These mines on Norwegian territory were owned and operated by Norway ( at Longyearbyen ) and by the Soviet Union ( at Barentsburg ) and both governments agreed to their destruction and the evacuation of their nationals.

When the demolitions at Barentsburg were complete, some 2, 000 Soviet miners and their movable belongings and equipment were taken to Arkhangelsk, in Russia, on the RMS Empress of Canada, escorted by Nigeria, where a group of nearly 200 Free French were found waiting.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in.