
"Winter is coming" is a pop-culture catchphrase to most of us, but it means something protracted, nocturnal and strangely beautiful in the Russian city of Murmansk. The Arctic circle's biggest city, founded in 1916 by Tsar Nicholas II, Murmansk is now home to a few hundred thousand people, in addition to being home to an extraordinary natural phenomenon -- one so-called "polar night" after another. For a little more than a month every year, Murmansk's hardy residents deal with what it means to l...
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