A polar bear settled in the ruins.Camera captures the unrealistic world of the Arctic (HuffPost Japan version) --Yahoo! News

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Photo taken by Dmitry Koch

It was polar bears who lived in the Arctic weather station, which was abandoned 30 years ago. Russian photographer Dmitry Koch captured the surprise of polar bears living in the Arctic. [Image] Polar bears living in the ruins that were abandoned 30 years ago In 2021, Mr. Koch set out on a shooting trip to capture the appearance of polar bears on Wrangel Island in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Wrangel Island is a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site and is known as a breeding ground for polar bears. However, Koch's party encountered an unexpected sight on Kolyuchin Island, where they stopped by to evacuate from bad weather. Kolyuchin Island is a small island with an Arctic weather station built during the Soviet Union era. It was closed in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the building remains after the disappearance of people. "When I approached the island by boat to avoid the storm, I noticed something moving in the windows of an abandoned building," Koch wrote in a contribution to the Guardian. When one person checked with binoculars, a polar bear was looking through the window. In addition, there were about 20 heads around the building. Koch has posted photos of polar bears taken on Kolyuchin Island at that time on his website and Instagram. The photo clearly shows the polar bear's gestures and facial expressions, but Koch and his colleagues did not approach the polar bear directly, and used a drone with a low-noise propeller to shoot it in a special way that did not scare the other party. In addition, the camera captures not only the beauty of nature and the unrealistic world, but also the garbage problem in the Arctic Circle. Koch wrote about a photo of a polar bear walking around a drum as follows: "The garbage problem is well known. For example, about 12 million fuel drums are scattered along the coast, which was brought in during the Soviet era. After using fuel, throw it away here and there. There are also abandoned villages and construction trash. It's very expensive to get rid of everything now. The government seems to be embarking on a cleaning plan, but I want you to find a solution. Why did the Soviet Union live in a building left unattended by humans? Intrigued, Koch asked biologist Anatoly Kochnev why. Kochinev then told us an interesting story, in addition to the curious personality of polar bears and the reason they protect themselves from humans. For unknown reasons, Konechif says that once every nine years, floating ice stays near the coast during the summer. As a result, the polar bears could not move north and would remain on Kolyuchin Island to live at the weather station. In support of Konechif's words, Koch explained that he rarely encountered polar bears on Wrangel Island, north of Kolyuchin Island, where he subsequently moved. The polar bear, a symbol of the Arctic, is at risk of survival due to the effects of climate change. Polar bears ride on sea ice to catch and move their prey, but the ice is thinning at a fast pace. In a 2021 study, Columbia University researchers warned that "if carbon dioxide emissions continue at their current pace, summer sea ice will disappear and polar bears will be extinct by 2100." .. The future of the creatures is volatile, but Koch said he saw a polar bear looking out of a collapsing building and felt that life would continue after the man-made object broke. "Life will continue to exist forever, if we cherish it," he told Live Science.