STORY: Polar bears have taken over an abandoned Soviet polar research station on small island off Russia's far northeastern cost.

Vadim Makhorov, a travel blogger, used a drone to film the bears roaming in and out of the facility's scattered buildings in the late summer Arctic sun this month on Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea.

One snapped at the drone as it approached. Others playfully poked their heads out of the buildings as they were filmed.

"I think they see these houses as shelter from the wind, rain and other things," Makhorov told Reuters. "In general, they get along fine there."

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SHOWS: KOLYUCHIN ISLAND, CHUKOTKA REGION, RUSSIA (SEPTEMBER 14, 2025) (VADIM MAKHOROV – Mandatory on-screen credit 'Instagram.com/makhorov')

1.POLAR BEAR LEAVING HOUSE

2. POLAR BEAR TRYING TO CATCH DRONE

3. POLAR BEAR WALKING NEXT TO ABANDONED BUILDING

4.POLAR BEAR IN WINDOW

5.VARIOUS OF POLAR BEARS AT BUILDING ENTRANCE

6.POLAR BEAR SITTING ON GROUND

7.POLAR BEAR BETWEEN STONES

8.ABANDONED WEATHER STATION

9.POLAR BEAR CLIMBING STAIRS

10.POLAR BEAR AT BUILDING ENTRANCE

11.VARIOUS OF POLAR BEAR IN WINDOW

12.POLAR BEAR LYING AT ENTRANCE

13.VARIOUS OF POLAR BEAR WALKING, SCRATCHING ITS BACK