Society

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Agency for the Northern Territories Development and Krasnoyarsk region Indigenous Minorities Support continues to accept applications for social benefits. Funds are provided for the purchase, delivery and installation of prefabricated houses for indigenous peoples leading a nomadic lifestyle. According to regional legislation, northerners who ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The regional government approved the state program Preservation and Development of the Indigenous Peoples’s Traditional Way of Life and Economic Activities. Over three years, the program funding will amount to more than 2.7 billion rubles from the regional and federal budgets, while the region will ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Five new northern buses (severobuses) are already on their way to Norilsk. The city will get them under the Krasnoyarsk region governor’s program - New Bus. The cars were manufactured at the Likinsky Bus Plant on a special order, taking into account the climatic conditions ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In September, a working trip took place around the villages of the rural settlement of Hatanga, following which the Nornickel company will draw up a support action plan in 2024. The rural settlement of Hatanga consists of eight villages. In three of them there is ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Agency for the Development of the Northern Territories and the Support of the Indigenous Minorities of the Region reported that there will be fish processing workshops, high fur boots sewing workshops, collection points for wild plants and furs in the north of Krasnoyarsk ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Volochanka, under the cooperation program of Nornickel and the North Indigenous Peoples Association, a first aid station (FAS) was opened and four residents were given the keys to new houses. “This is a joyful day for us - we have received a new medical ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Nornickel's large-scale program for the indigenous peoples of the North is designed for five years with a total funding of over two billion rubles. The project covers seven areas and 44 activities aimed at supporting traditional activities, protecting the original habitat, financing housing, medical, infrastructure, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Dudinka, a memorial plate to the former head of the Dudinka port Alexander Afanasyev was unveiled on the Nornickel Polar Transport Branch building. A sailor, the Civil War participant, who went from an ordinary sailor to the Minister of the USSR Navy, Alexander Afanasyev ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Recall that in August last year, the Norilsk City Hall and PORA signed a cooperation agreement. The strategic document sets out seven goals for what Norilsk should be like in 2035: - a comfortable city for living in the Arctic; - a city that develops human capital ...