Welcome to the deserted Soviet settlement of Pyramid, around 800 miles from the North Pole and literally frozen in time. This ghost town is in fact in Norway - on Spitsbergen island in the Arctic Ocean - where Russia retains rights to occupy the icy territory. No-one has lived permanently in Pyramid since 1998 and it is now a bizarre tourist attraction offering the world's most northerly Lenin monument. Frozen in time: The Soviet settlement of Pyramid is around 800 miles from the North Pole and has been abandoned since 1998 Isolated: Pyramid (Pyramiden) was founded in 1910 by Sweden and sold to the USSR in 1927. It is named after a nearby pyramid-shaped mountain. These pictures were taken this spring by  Vladimir Prokofiev, a Russian guide
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Ghost town is in fact in Norway - on Spitsbergen island in the Arctic Ocean
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No-one has lived permanently in Pyramid since 1998
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Bizarre tourist attraction which Vladimir Prokofiev, 33, shows people around
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The thermometer reads minus 10C in the sun but feels cooler with wind chill
Cut-off: The guide regularly visits the one place in Pyramid where, on a good day, he might be lucky to catch a signal for his mobile from @placeholder settlements on Spitsbergen