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The imagery from the series, published across major outlets like The Guardian and BBC News , depicts a surreal, post-apocalyptic scene where nature has reclaimed human structures. Broader Context: Polar Bears and Arctic Towns

In 2022, photographer Dmitry Kokh captured viral images of polar bears "occupying" an abandoned weather station on in the Chukchi Sea, located off the far east coast of Russia. This "ghost town" became a symbol of wildlife adapting to human-abandoned spaces in the Arctic. The Story of Kolyuchin Island 2022---The-ghost-town-of-polar-bears

The site was originally a Soviet-era meteorological station built in 1932. It was abandoned in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The imagery from the series, published across major