Truths and myths
Spoons instead of cloak-room tickets
At the highest point of the Great Patriotic War, the House of Engineering and Technical Workers (DITR) - the most beautiful building of the 1940s - was opened in Norilsk. An incredible cultural event for such a difficult and sad time in the history of ...
Evil spirit or miners’ protector?
Its main character is a mountain spirit and the patron saint of conscientious miners - Shubin. The mythological creature is called a mine brownie or the owner of underground workings, by analogy with the Mistress of the Copper Mountain in the Urals, the German Kobold, ...
Peace Street reconciled two capitals
The groups of builders transformed the city and gave it a special image that have been lasting for many decades. Komsomol brigades arrived from all over the Soviet Union. Thanks to the energetic, active young men and women, Norilsk received the unofficial status of the ...
Tricky revenge or architect’s plan?
And there are piquant ones. Like the history of the house number 3 on Leninsky Prospekt. If you walk along the main street of Norilsk now and look into the house arch at Leninsky, 3, the school number 1 will appear in his yard. Holding on ...
Norilsk honey: fiction or reality?
Even before the start of the World War II, the infrastructure on the territory of the Norilsk Combine was actively developing and an important task was the growth of agriculture. Great attention was paid to it. It was about growing vegetables, herbs and even heat-loving fruit ...
Vysotsky in Norilsk: truth or myth?
According to some old-timers, it happened when the singer visited the northern with a concert. Now it’s hard to define the year when it happened - either in 1964, or in 1966, according to unofficial information. But official Soviet history denies the artist’s arrival in Norilsk ...