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A group of polar bears recently moved into an abandoned research station on Russia's Kolyuchin Island

Photographer Vadim Makhorov captured drone footage of the bears lounging, socializing, and basking in the sun around the station's abandoned buildings

The polar bears are expected to stay at the station until ice returns to the area surrounding the island

A group of polar bears has turned an abandoned research station into a home.

On Kolyuchin Island, about seven miles off the coast of the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia, a former Soviet Union research station has stood empty since the USSR fell in the 1990s, per CBS News and The Associated Press . Or so it was thought. Photographer Vadim Makhorov captured drone footage of several polar bears wandering in and out of th

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