Polar bears occupy abandoned Soviet-era research station

Drone footage captures a group of polar bears living inside an abandoned research station on Russia's Kolyuchin Island.

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Travel blogger, Vadim Makhorov, shared video that shows several bears inside the scattered building, looking through windows and walking around the island. A bear could be seen trying to catch the blogger's drone as it approached.

The Kolyuchin weather station was abandoned in the early 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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