Grumant (russian: Грумант) is a former
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
company town in
Svalbard, Norway, established in 1912 and abandoned in 1965. The population—including Coles Bay, which served the settlement's port—peaked at 1,106 in 1951. The name Grumant is of
Pomory origin, and is also used to refer to the whole of the
Svalbard archipelago. It may be a corruption of Greenland, with which the land was confused.
Grumant is on
Spitsbergen, the largest of the Svalbard archipelago's islands, about west-southwest of
Longyearbyen, the administrative centre.
References
1912 establishments in Norway
1961 disestablishments in Norway
Company towns in Norway
Former populated places in Svalbard
Spitsbergen
Norway–Soviet Union relations
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