Fairy Tale Laboratory launches in Russia

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.

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Shamans and magical animals: Fairy Taimyr includes 18 rare myths

Shamans and magical animals: Fairy Taimyr includes 18 rare myths

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Fairy Taimyr - North indigenous peoples’ rare legends collection - publication was one of the results of the expeditions to the peninsula villages, organized by the Norilsk Development Agency (NDA) in 2021. The book became the fifth in the fabulous series of the writer ...

All shades of North: gold fund exhibition opened

All shades of North: gold fund exhibition opened

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The exhibition from the Norilsk Museum fine arts collection is open at the art gallery at Talnahskaya 78 until November 13. Voice of the North is painting, graphics and some sculptural and decorative works, mainly by Norilsk and Krasnoyarsk artists of the second half of ...

Planet’s rarest language can now be learned online

Planet’s rarest language can now be learned online

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Arctic Development Project Office (PORA) has launched a video course on learning the Enets language. The Enets is one of the smallest indigenous peoples of the North. Now they mostly live on the territory of Taimyr. According to various estimates, only 20 to 40 ...

Arctic fox farm built in Dudinka

Arctic fox farm built in Dudinka

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Taimyr, the infrastructure for a future fur farm for breeding blue foxes is being created. The Nganasan community Huale is implementing a project to build a farm of animals with rare fur. The new project, supported by Nornickel, promises to saturate the Taimyr market ...

Thematic collages appeared opposite former maternity hospital in Norilsk

Thematic collages appeared opposite former maternity hospital in Norilsk

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The maternity hospital on Bogdan Hmelnitsky street, 18, worked in Norilsk for 50 years - from 1968 to 2018. Almost all those years, the walls of the opposite houses were decorated with touching gratitude to mothers from fathers overwhelmed with emotions, inspired by their ...

Taimyr museum revived Boris Molchanov’s paintings

Taimyr museum revived Boris Molchanov’s paintings

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. With the help of new technologies, the paintings of the artist Boris Molchanov, the real son of the Dolgan people, now come to life before the eyes of museum visitors in Dudinka. The multimedia project Revived Legends of the North was the first to digitize ...

Taimyr chief chum brought best bone work to Norilsk

Taimyr chief chum brought best bone work to Norilsk

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The exposition from the gold fund of the Taimyr House of Folk Art  - The Road to Mastery -  will work until November 30. The exhibition organizers, headed by the Taimyr Ethnocultural Traditions Keepers Union chairman Vasily Batagay, included in the exposition the best works ...

Film about Enets and Nganasans life to be shown on television

Film about Enets and Nganasans life to be shown on television

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists-ethnographers and a team of documentary filmmakers went to Taimyr on a film expedition - a series of ethnographic films Children of the Sun about the North indigenous peoples’ representatives will be shot here. The expedition will collect information about the Taimyr Enets and ...

Yury Bashmet’s educational center opened in Norilsk College of Arts

Yury Bashmet’s educational center opened in Norilsk College of Arts

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Norilsk, on the College of Arts basis, a new regional Yury Bashmet’s educational center begins its work. During the year, 24 master classes will be held in the northern city. The cultural and educational mission is supported by the Nornickel company. The Norilsk college ...