A photographer who brought his drone along on a cruise trip discovered a group of polar bears living in an abandoned Soviet polar research station. While on his latest trip, he flew his drone out to Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea and piloted it close to the polar bears. Makhorov is traveling on the Spirit of Enderby (Professor Khromov) ship and says that near the polar bear residence is a huddle of walruses. He calls it an “interesting neighborhood.”“Polar bears live here on an abandoned weather station,” Makhorov writes on Instagram. The bears on Kolyuchin Island have been photographed before: Dmitry Kokh shared photos of the bears in 2022 which won Nature Photographer of the Year 2022.