ENG: Maksym Bespalov – Ukrainian Spitsbergen

Maksym Bespalov’s *Ukrainian Spitsbergen* is a unique literary reportage about the far north, where the Ukrainian presence turned out to be far more profound than one could have imagined.

People: Stories of Ukrainians from Donbas and Galicia who went to work in the permafrost and created their own microcosm there.
Pyramid: A description of a ghost town where time has stood still. Abandoned houses, schools, and mines look like sets from a movie about the end of the world.
Harshness: The realities of life among glaciers, where polar bears are a real danger and the polar night lasts for months.
Identity: Reflections on how Ukrainians survived within the imperial system on the fringes of civilization and what remains of that today.

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