Society
Norilsk resident joined State Duma’s Youth Parliament
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Norilsk City Council’s deputy Anastasia Savicheva has joined the Youth Parliament under the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Last Friday, she took part in the sixth meeting of the main collegial youth body of the country, which was held ...
Nosok village’s reindeer herder got new house
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A new residential building has been commissioned in the Taimyr village of Nosok. It was built as part of the program to improve the housing conditions of reindeer herders and hunters in Krasnoyarsk region, according to the region’s official portal. A family of reindeer ...
Museum exhibition to be dedicated to Vladimir Dolgih
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The exhibition was made possible thanks to the invaluable help of the day hero’s daughter Natalya Vladimirovna, who donated a large collection of her father’s personal belongings to the Norilsk museum. Now our city can boast of perhaps the largest collection of the Vladimir ...
Taimyr schoolchildren visited St. Petersburg
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The headquarters of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) hosted schoolchildren from Taimyr as part of the educational project Educational Voyage: Cultural and Historical Tourism of the Russian Arctic, the Taimyr press service reported. The headquarters’ guests included 7-10-grades’ students from the city of Dudinka, the ...
New schools to be built in Volochanka, Heta and Nosok in 2025
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 2025, construction of schools will begin in the villages of Volochanka, Heta and Nosok. This was discussed at a meeting of the Northern and Arctic Territories and Indigenous Minorities Development Committee, and regional parliamentarians also established a draft of the region’s main financial ...
Artificial intelligence to help in teaching the blind
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Novosibirsk company Sigma has developed a system based on artificial intelligence that helps in teaching the blind and visually impaired. The system allows visualizing finger movements in the form of a heat map, said the company’s executive director Margarita Frolova. “My team and I ...
Volunteer base appeared at Russia northernmost point
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At cape Chelyuskin on the Taimyr peninsula, the northernmost point of Russia and Eurasia, volunteers from Clean Arctic have built a box for six people to live in. The base is located in the previously mothballed premises of the Fedorov meteorological station, which was ...
Interactive atlas of indigenous peoples launched in Russia
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A full version of the interactive atlas of indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Far East has been launched in Russia. They include about 260 thousand people. Project manager, vice-rector for research at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) Olga ...
State support for Krasnoyarsk region’s indigenous peoples to increase
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The revenues of the regional budget for next year will amount to 414.3 billion rubles, expenses - 492.7 billion. It became known that the main financial document of the region will retain its social focus. More than 2.9 billion rubles will be allocated for the ...