Ancestral culture to have its future

Anfisa Nikiforova, head of the North Indigenous Minorities department at Nornickel’s Polar Division, popularizes indigenous peoples’ culture.

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Territory genius

Icebreaker chief mate told about watch at Earth top

Icebreaker chief mate told about watch at Earth top

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Diana Kidzhi, the first female navigator and chief assistant in the nuclear icebreaker fleet, has been working on the 50 Let Pobedy icebreaker for five years. In winter, the ship sails along the Northern Sea Route - provides passage and icebreaking support in the ...

Taimyr bone carver shares his secrets

Taimyr bone carver shares his secrets

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Aleksey Chunanchar, a representative of the oldest Taimyr ethnic group, Nganasan, has been engaged in bone carving for 20 years. He is not a hereditary master - the first bone carver in the family. His father was engaged only in cutting sledges. Alexey draws ...

Uncle Kolya: Zero Point hermit’s story

Uncle Kolya: Zero Point hermit’s story

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The man has an apartment in Norilsk, but he is staying where he worked almost all his life - in the industrial zone, on the site of a garage that was disbanded many years ago. Now, when according to the renovation program, the territory is ...

Norilsk woman portrayed Putorana plateau captivating world

Norilsk woman portrayed Putorana plateau captivating world

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Galina Kosheyeva, chief specialist of the Norilsknickelremont LLC planning and economic department, is the debutant of the Stars Corporation Nornickel corporative competition. For her, it was a creative competitive debut in the Stars Corporation: Galina had not participated in this project or in another competition ...

If you want to feel like on another planet go down under the ice

If you want to feel like on another planet go down under the ice

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Yevgeny is not a native Norilsk resident: he came to the city with his parents, the soldiery, in 1983, when he was six years old. The family lived in a military unit for a long time, until it was disbanded. And he himself would ...

Impossible projects are not for me

Impossible projects are not for me

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Social startups are emerging today in almost every field of human activity. Although it would be a mistake to think that the concept of social entrepreneurship was invented only in the third millennium. The idea of ​​using innovation and business tools to improve ...

Queen of tundra

Queen of tundra

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. She appears at all city, regional or federal events in the national dress of the ancient people of Taimyr – the Nganasans. And this is not a stylization. Lera is a true custodian of the traditions and culture of her ancestors who have lived ...

Norilsk chansonnier wrote over 100 songs about North

Norilsk chansonnier wrote over 100 songs about North

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. An employee of one of the Nornickel divisions moved to the North from the Bryansk region more than 20 years ago. Over the years of his life in Norilsk, Mikhail wrote more than 100 songs, most of which are dedicated to Norilsk and northern ...

New format second-hand shop operates in Norilsk

New format second-hand shop operates in Norilsk

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Since 2014, when the Nornickel company started developing social entrepreneurship in the territories of its presence, children's development centers, a country recreation complex, a center for aesthetic medicine, and a dance and sports multicenter have appeared in Norilsk. The heads of the 69 Parallel ...