# @cgtneurope on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPGlBYdFd0g
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34998502-cgtneurope-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-27T10:44:56.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CGTN Europe (@cgtneurope) — https://gondola.cc/cgtneurope

## Caption

Polar bears have taken over an abandoned Soviet polar research station on a small island off Russia's far northeastern coast.⁣
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Vadim Makhorov, a travel blogger, used a drone to film the bears roaming in and out of the facility's scattered buildings this month on Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea.⁣
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"I think they see these houses as shelter from the wind, rain and other things," Makhorov said. "In general, they get along fine there."⁣
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Scientists left the research station, which is in an abandoned village, soon after the Soviet Union's collapse over three decades ago.⁣
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#soviet #polarbear #bears #arctic⁣
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📷 makhorov/Reuters⁣

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soviet, polarbear, bears, arctic

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