Grumant

{{Infobox settlement

|name = Grumant

|native_name = {{native name|ru|Грумант|paren=omit}}

|settlement_type = Ghost town

|image_skyline = Grumant-Svalbard.jpg

|imagesize = 300

|image_caption = Settlement ruins (2007)

|pushpin_map = Svalbard

|pushpin_label_position = right

|pushpin_mapsize = 200

|pushpin_map_caption = Location in western Svalbard

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = Norway

|subdivision_type1 = Syssel

|subdivision_name1 = Svalbard

|subdivision_type2 = island

|subdivision_name2 = Spitsbergen

|unit_pref = Imperial

|population_as_of = 1961

|population_total = 0

|timezone = CET

|utc_offset = +2

|timezone_DST = +3

|coordinates = {{coord|78|10|40|N|15|06|45|E|region:NO|display=inline,title}}

}}

Grumant ({{langx|ru|Грумант}}) is a former Soviet company town in Svalbard, Norway, established in 1912 and abandoned in 1965. The population—including Coles Bay, which served the settlement's port—peaked at 1,106 in 1951. The name Grumant is of Pomory origin, and is also used to refer to the whole of the Svalbard archipelago. It may be a corruption of Greenland, with which the land was confused.{{cite web |last1=Reymert |first1=Per Kyrre |title=BARENTSBURG, PYRAMIDEN AND GRUMANT |url=http://www.svalbardmuseum.no/eindex.php?id=10&kategori=2&underkategori=1 |website=Svalbard Museum |access-date=22 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724185037/http://www.svalbardmuseum.no/eindex.php?id=10&kategori=2&underkategori=1 |archive-date=24 July 2011}}

Grumant is on Spitsbergen, the largest of the Svalbard archipelago's islands, about {{convert|10|km|mi}} west-southwest of Longyearbyen, the administrative centre.

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