Truths and myths
Speaking baby born in Russian Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The topic was eagerly inflated by domestic tabloids. The news about the speaking child from Arctic city of Norilsk is even today presented by online publications as a sensation - this information still appears in news feeds as fresh. But ...
Mystical picture. Part two
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Some of the works are kept in galleries in France, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Finland, Estonia and other countries. However, despite the unique technology of creation, none of them gained fame as mystical as the picture called Shaman. The age of gadgets ...
Mystical picture
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Siberian city of Dudinka, in the Taimyr House of Folk Art, there is a painting that many people consider mystical. It has a special magnetism, attracts attention and even won fame as a miracle worker far beyond the peninsula. ...
Shaman listens to your wishes
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 2009, a sculpture appeared between the maternity hospital and the Norilsk employment center - a northern man with a tambourine. The inscription on the tambourine runs: ‘Whisper your wish into my ear’. The composition became part of the Parallel World ...
Famous Aika bear’s life and fate
It was there that the real bear Aika walked more than 40 years ago, as it lived in the family of the Norilsk cameraman Yury Ledin. His animal documentaries rank among the best along with Cousteau and Darrell. Around the Tundra, Polar Bear, Northern Fur ...
Who gave name to Taimyr?
There are several legends about the "Taimyr" toponym. One of the Dolgan versions – tuoi muora – means to praise the tundra, the other – tymyr – is artery, blood vessel. The Nenets lead the toponymy from the words tai – taimen, and myry – water with ...
Most interesting fish lives in Taimyr
I have heard from experienced fishermen about real red fish, which can be found in abundance in such places where none of the storytellers have ever gotten to. It was called differently: brown trout, goggle-eyed trout and, finally, char. Someone told about the monstrous-sized fish in ...
Little fish goes a long way
In the early 80s, an icebreaker came to Dudinka, which, had to be examined according to the regulations, it was required to inspect the propeller. The diver who sank into the water to do the work soon reported that he could not see anything because ...
Usual experience becomes legend
Some urban legends develop by themselves over decades. For some people, they are part of life, while others doubt that some things could have happened quite recently. The director of the Yubileiny cultural and leisure center Inna Davydova has been living in Norilsk since the age ...