On a special journey, photographer Meir Alfasi traveled to one of the most remote and frozen places on earth: Pyramiden Island, a former Soviet town in the far north of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, under Russian administration.

Located less than 1,000 kilometers from the North Pole, the island was once an isolated Soviet industrial settlement. Since its residents abandoned it in 1998, Pyramiden has remained a frozen time capsule, complete with statues of Lenin, Russian signage, and the eerie feeling of a world that has stood still.