The Poliarnaia Kochegarka Newspaper as a Source on the Soviet Mining on Spitsbergen in the 1930–1980s

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Aleksandr Portsel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Soviet mines on Svalbard; Spitsbergen; Barentsburg; Coles Bay; Grumant; Pyramiden; Norwegian literature; PT8301-9155; Arctic; Murmansk; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.4992; https://doaj.org/article/d9ebdfd01760491b8e67579b8c446568

Copies of the Poliarnaia kochegarkanewspaper, published by the Russian/Soviet mining trust Arktikugol and stored in the State Archive of the Murmansk Region (GAMO), contain a wealth of material which emerged after a systematic coverage, for nearly half a century, of various aspects of the developmen...