The primary goal of this project is to uncover new resources for the development of areas that are far from popular tourist routes - the so-called Silver Necklace of Russia.
Culture
Indigenous languages given special attention in Taimyr
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The V jubilee municipal festival-competition for families Reviving the Native Language Through Everyone and Each has launched in the Taimyr capital, celebrating the 95th anniversary of Taimyr and the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. The event took place at the Taimyr Oykumena artistic and ethnographic ...
Norilsk is Russian Macondo
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This season at the PolArt residence is being described as the fastest yet: less than two weeks have passed since the winners were announced. The first resident artist for this season will be Maria Plotnikova from Moscow. Born and raised in Moscow, Maria spent several ...
Norilsk Museum invites children to play cities
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk Museum is inviting high school students from Norilsk to join an intellectual and patriotic game focused on cities of labor valor. This local project has been specially designed by the museum to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, ...
Yenisey Express arrives in Norilsk and Dudinka
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Yenisey Express, a socio-cultural project, will once again travel through the Krasnoyarsk region. It started off on February 17 from Sosnovoborsk and will conclude on April 15 in the village of Severo-Yeniseysky. The cultural team of the Yenisey Express will stop in 14 towns ...
Scientists found ancient sled in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers from the Institute of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, along with the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, have uncovered ancient sled in the Far North. The excavations took place at the Zhohov site, located on one of the islands in ...
Douglas to become Krasnoyarsk museum’s star
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The centerpiece of Molokov island will be a park-museum dedicated to the exploration of the North, featuring the restored C-47 Douglas aircraft as its main exhibit. The architects’ proposals include a variety of facilities: a museum complex (which will have a separate museum on water), ...
Muha-Tsokotuha available in Evenki language
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Korney Chukovsky’s well-known lines have been translated into the Evenki language by Tatiana Bolina-Ukocher, a leading expert in Evenki culture at the Taimyr House of Folk Art. In 2024, the Yakut publishing house Ayar launched a print run of 800 copies titled Dylkon-Tsokotuhan, as reported ...
PolArt residency announces artists’ competition results
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The prestige of the residency continues to rise, with a competitive ratio of 14 applications for each available spot. Opinions among the experts often varied widely. A particularly large number of applications focused on revitalizing the city’s heritage, urban narratives, and the collection of the ...
Arctic survival simulator to be released in 2025
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. By the end of 2025, the Russian development studio Magic Pie will launch Polaris, an action-packed simulator set in the Arctic. According to vkplay.ru, the game is a first-person survival simulator. The protagonist is a research engineer who ends up alone in the icy wilderness, ...