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On the world map, there is one very interesting place, which has recently become a tourist attraction - Norwegian Longyearbyen. This is the northernmost city of the globe is the largest population center in Svalbard and the administrative center of the archipelago severe. Its territory is all the north - the airport, international university, a museum, a library and even a special Doomsday Vault. There are some very strange laws: one prohibiting walking without a weapon, and all other - to die on its territory.
Sam Svalbard is a very special place, because its territory prior to the beginning of the last century did not belong to any of the countries in the world. Here, of course, hosted the representatives of neighboring countries, they were hunters or ugledobytchiki, but to protect the territory and take care of her there was no one. Therefore, in 1920, at the peace conference in Paris was signed the Treaty of Svalbard, which established the right to full self-government over Archipelago of Norway, and other countries that have signed it, given the opportunity to freely conduct business and research activities in the this place.
the city of Longyearbyen itself was founded in 1906 by the American ugledobytchikom, laid the coal mine, which was sold in ten years the Norwegian company Store Norske.
Naturally, for the first time, the settlement flourished, because the country is so needed in the corner, and even after complete destruction during the Second World War, it was quickly rebuilt. But by the early 1990s, coal mining in and around the city practically ceased to act remained only one mine, which supplies fuel to the local plant.
Therefore, in order to stay afloat, the city started to actively develop tourism infrastructure, as well as research activities. After all, this region is of special interest to tourists, adventurers, as well as for natural scientists.
One of the strange laws in Longyearbyen - a ban for a walk without a weapon. After all, this archipelago is a kingdom of the polar bear, and the meeting can be fatal to them. Therefore, all the tourists are forbidden to leave the city without an armed escort.
On the streets of the city is also not safe, because any time you can meet such a dangerous guest. Given that there is a University Center in Svalbard and the Norwegian branch of the University of the Arctic, and its students are not always the locals, they are the first days of teaching how to behave when meeting with a wild animal, and shooting.
At the same time kill the bears without the most compelling reason is strictly prohibited. Every case of death of the animal very carefully investigated, and if you find that you killed the bear with more of the 50 meters distance, the huge fine or even a prison you will not to avoid.
Given the pilgrimage tourists and thoughtless bullying Kosolapov, a new kind of penalty "for intimidating animal without cause", which is also a severe blow to the pocket careless visitor.
Despite the fact that Svalbard is Norwegian territory, it largely lives by its own rules dictated by the harsh life of the archipelago. The first of these limits the entry of the unemployed and pensioners, so there is only the able-bodied population, no matter how the inhabitants of the country they originally are.
Yes, and to be born in this city there is no possibility of all pregnant women in the last month are taken to the mainland. Not to mention the seriously ill people, which is to be strictly prohibited, they were immediately sent to the mainland.
In this region, there is an unusual law that prohibits the disposal of the archipelago. That is why the removal of all the sick and do not allow people to live the elderly. But such a sacrilegious law also dictated by the extreme realities of life.
The only cemetery in Longyearbyen has been closed 70 more ago, when after the raid wildlife vyryvshih grave, it discovered that the body simply freeze and do not smolder, while retaining all the dangerous viruses and disease. Initially, such a discovery is very pleased of medical scientists who were able to explore Many diseases and even were able to identify the strain of influenza virus, which claimed many lives in the distant 1917 year.
But, recollecting himself, they realized that the consequences of such raids can be simply fatal for people living in the area of people. So I had to pass a law by which every seriously ill person should immediately to leave the city, and suddenly died just transport to the nearest town on the mainland and Inter.
Not only special laws has become famous is a harsh place, there was created a unique Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which has a more vivid and accurate figurative definition - Storage Yom Kippur. It Norwegians initiated this project, putting quite an ambitious and noble task - to provide a strategic reserve of seeds of plants from all over the globe.
After all, if there is any accident, no matter what it will be in the nature, a natural or man-made, the inhabitants of the planet will be able to get the genetic material of its terrain and gradually restore ruined flora.
And Svalbard was chosen by chance, because of permafrost conditions could not be better suited for such a facility, and its distinctive design is able to withstand any disasters.
This land has something to surprise tourists who are not afraid of frost or threatening polar bears. Though here and there is no particular architectural interest, but a visit to a special Doomsday Vault and unforgettable northern landscape, boundless sea and bright home - all this splendor remains in the memory of any traveler.
On our planet, a lot of different unusual places with his way of life, which are not only admired, but also surprise. For example, there is a whole country, where everything is reminiscent of Utopia - there is free medical care, education, no army, and the doors never locked with a key.
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