Society
Indigenous people to study at MGIMO
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Nornickel company became the general sponsor of the all-Russian competitive educational program - Indigenous Minorities of Russia. School of Public Diplomacy. The program was launched by the MGIMO of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Association of Indigenous Minorities of the North, Siberia ...
New medical center to be opened in Dudinka
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the Nornickel Polar Transport Branch head’s initiative, which was supported by the company's head office, a new medical center will be opened in Dudinka in 2022. In Dudinka, therapists will be on a regular basis. Narrow specialists - otorhinolaryngologist, ophthalmologist, cardiologist, dentist, neurologist, ultrasound ...
Polar State University to train teachers, doctors and lawyers
“We went to this for five years, but the changes began long before the university received a new status. Five years ago, it would have been illogical to be a university, but now we have opened new programs that did not exist before”, said Dmitry ...
National Geographic magazine wrote about life in Taimyr
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Several indigenous small-numbered peoples of the Far North live in Taimyr: the Evenks, Nganasans, Enets, Dolgans and Nenets. Some of them moved to a sedentary lifestyle and settled in cities and villages. But many continue to wander through the tundra and live the way their ...
Twenty years ago Dudinka got new coat of arms
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Twenty years ago, on October 17, 2001, at a session of the Dudinka city council, the deputies approved an updated sketch of the city’s coat of arms, which was prepared by specialists from the culture department of the local mayor's office and the heraldic ...
Yidyna community to teach Taimyr young people to hunt and fish
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the Taimyr village of Hatanga, the project HatPromysel (hunting and fishing) of the Yydina (Moonlight) family-clan community of indigenous minorities starts in October. The initiative received support from the World of Taimyr – the Nornickel company’s charity program. According to the project, the ...
Record number of nonresident students entered Polar State University
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Every year more and more students from other cities enter the Polar State University named after Fedorovsky (formerly the Norilsk State Industrial Institute). The teaching staff is also changing: in recent years, it has been updated with the staff from the mainland. As the ...
Media company to broadcast news in indigenous languages
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Taimyr will again have news broadcasts in the languages of the peninsula's indigenous peoples - Dolgan, Nenets and Nganasan. This is a joint project of the Taimyr administration, the Severny Gorod media company and the Krasnoyarsk branch of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting ...
Northerners move to mainland
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This year, 415 families from Norilsk and Dudinka will get a chance to have housing in any region of the country. According to the region’s Ministry of Construction, 218 families have already used this right, the rest will receive documents by the end of October. “My ...