Culture

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Taimyr Museum of Local Lore hosted the premiere of the play Merchants of Dudinka. Life, Discoveries, Love based on the Taimyr writer Yuri Gradinarov’s  book named In Lower Reaches Yenisey is Mighty. As the director of the museum, Olga Korneyeva, said, this is ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Arctic Development Project Office (PORA) is creating a website for the sale of products by indigenous craftsmen of the North. The electronic trading platform, where masters of applied arts will be able to present their products for sale, will start working in early ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Children's Musical Theater of a Young Actor (CMTYA), which has been touring a lot around the country and the world, flew to Norilsk with one of its most successful and beloved by spectators and performers. The head of the theater Alexander Fedorov at a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The specialists of the City Center of Folk Art Evgenia Beti and Svetlana Popova made a working trip to the village of Levinskie Peski. Let us remind you that in July, on the basis of the village club, a studio of arts and crafts ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The First House of Norilsk prepared a museum performance for its hundredth winter. The organizers warmed the guests with tea and jam and stories about the history of the centenary. The old house ‘spoke’ with the voice of its builder Nikolay Urvantsev. Short videos ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The presentation of the Ornament is The Language of Ancestors book was held at the St. Petersburg headquarters of the Russian Geographical Society. Experts assess the work as a kind of breakthrough in the study of the Taimyr indigenous peoples’ life. The specialists of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Pupils of the art department of the Boris Molchanov children's art school visited the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore. The guide Lidiya Aksenova told the children about the female and male Nganasan costume peculiarities. “Each ornament on national clothes had a meaning and a name. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Masha Ivanova's Norilsk impressions resulted not only in a series of gouaches, but also in hand-embroidered postcards. Pocket Norilsk, as Masha Ivanova called her handkerchiefs, arose under the impression of what she saw in the Old City, at the Norilsk Golgotha memorial. She once read ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The pandemic activated a virtual resource in the work of Norilsk librarians, including local historians. The local history sector of the library dedicated another virtual exhibition to the Arctic explorers - the heroes of the day. In 2021, the Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen and three Soviet researchers: ...