Artefacts

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the TLLM funds, more than 92 thousand museum items are stored. And the number one is the shaman's tambourine. The unique exhibit entered the museum collection in September 1953 and the next year it will celebrate a round date in this status. Museum workers ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The remains of Yakut mammoths are helping scientists find cures for dangerous infections. Artemy Goncharov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, head of the Microorganisms Functional Genomics and Proteomics Laboratory at the Experimental Medicine Institute, spoke about this in an interview with Fontanka. During expeditions to the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The oldest traces of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) found in the Arctic appeared 40 000 years ago, at the beginning of the Late Paleolithic. Scientists came to this conclusion by examining the animals’ bones found at the Paleolithic complex in the Lower Ob ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Paleogenetics compared the DNA of modern Greenland dogs, the ancient Siberian husky and the Ice Age wolf and found that the ancestor of all breeds of sled dogs appeared in Siberia about ten thousand years ago. “Genetic analysis shows that all breeds of sled dogs ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A fragment of the shell of a giant ammonite that inhabited the territory more than 60 million years ago was found 150 kilometers north-west of Norilsk at the mouth of the Ikon river in September 2015. The Norilsk Museum began with ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. By 1929, the founder of the complex method of mineral raw materials, from prospecting to technology development, was widely known not only in scientific circles. Fedorovsky had a brilliant biography for a Soviet scientist. The founding father of the VIMS and the Moscow Mining ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the Taimyr House of Folk Art, or the main chum of Taimyr, as they call it, they like to recall the story of five years ago, when a resident of Dudinka left several boxes and a bag with unique Nganasan items at ...

“The women’s Nenets sled is made according to an old technology without a single nail from a freshly cut larch”, says Anna Yarotskaya, an employee of the Taimyr House of Folk Art. “It took the Tuhard reindeer breeder Yury Yaptune a month to work”. According the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Nikolay Urvantsev’s fund is considered the most complete and valuable not only for the collection of the Norilsk Museum. Its high status is due to the fact that the discoverer of the Norilsk deposits, a participant in the epoch-making Arctic ...