Events
Book about musk ox presented in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A new book by Olga Shadrina, head of the White Bear educational center, was presented at the Norilsk public library. Grishka is a real story about the musk ox Grishka by name, the second in the Non-fictional stories about people and animals series. The ...
Norilsk residents invited to interactive exploration expedition
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On the occasion of the 135th anniversary of Nikolay Fedorovsky, an outstanding scientist-mineralogist, founder of applied mineralogy and science popularizer, the Norilsk Museum conducts excursions in a new interactive space. A new museum lesson dedicated to science and profession of a geologist steeped in romance ...
Norilsk woman captured Dima Bilan’s heart in The Voice TV show
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the tenth anniversary season of the popular TV show The Voice, Elina Pan from Norilsk performed on Channel One. And from the first notes she won the hearts of the jury and millions of TV viewers. At the blind auditions, the girl performed with ...
Buses in Dudinka decorated with schoolchildren’s drawings
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Two new buses, purchased by the Nornickel company under the program to support the indigenous peoples of Taimyr, will be easy to recognize among the rest: they were decorated with drawings of the children's competition winners timed to coincide with the 90th anniversary of ...
Mechanical plant celebrates its 80th anniversary
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first machine builders arrived in the Arctic on July 1, 1935 on the steamer Spartak. The plant began with three lathes, and one machine did not fit in the room and half went out into the street. The beginning of the future Mechanical ...
Do you want Sheldon Cooper’s memory?
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Concentrating Factory Lecture Club, a joint project of the Severny Gorod media company and Nornickel, invites everyone to meet with Ph.D Nikita Petrov. Why did people remember dozens of phone numbers before, but now they even forget the bank card PIN code? What techniques ...
Norilsk and Tula celebrate Sergey Shcheglov-Norilsky’s centenary
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norillag graduate took his literary pseudonym in memory of the place where he was brought from a student's bench in August 1942. A freshman of the Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute’s history faculty was accused of anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to five years. In the camp, ...
Eco-festival ZOZhivem to take place in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The ZOZhivem (ZOZh = HLS which stands for Healthy Life Style) holiday is organized by Nornickel volunteers - participants of the Icebreaker development program, which started in April. Eco-volunteers trained for three months, exchanged ideas, shared experiences, and in August the team started ...
Hatanga celebrates 395th anniversary
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Residents of Hatanga will celebrate the 395th anniversary of the village founding for three days. In honor of the anniversary, the settlement will host a craft festival, a bone carving master show, a bike ride, sports competitions, team games, and a quest quiz. Everyone ...

