
Artefacts

Taimyr archaeological excavations’ results summed up
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Specialists from the Siberia Archaeological Research organization summed up the results of the two-years work on the project The First Russian Polar Sailors off the Taimyr Coast, dedicated to the history of the Taimyr peninsula coast development in the 17th–18th centuries. During the 2022 field ...

Ancient shopping arcades found on Krasnoyarsk metro station future site
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The foundation and fragments of brickwork from the times of Tsarist Russia were found during the construction of the Krasnoyarsk metro. Researchers have accurately dated the identified historical heritage site to the mid-19th – early 20th centuries. Novobazarnaya square, where the lower shopping arcades were ...

Taimyr Museum replenished with unique documents on Dikson defense
ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Taimyr Museum of Local Lore research staff accepted another 229 new historical items. Among them are the Nenets poetess, prose writer, translator Lyubov Komarova-Nenyang’s manuscripts, autobiographical stories and documents. In addition, the museum received documents that previously belonged to Nikandr Yelagin - the writer ...

Taimyr Museum reveals rare books
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first copy of the collection - the Niva illustrated magazine file of 1900 - was acquired by the Museum on May 31, 1976 from a private person. It published literary works, historical, popular science essays, reproductions and engravings of contemporary artists. “There are ...

Taimyr Museum of Local Lore turns 85
#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 ...

Mammoth remains help scientists find cures for infections
#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 ...

People came to Arctic 40 thousand years ago
#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 ...

Taimyr called first sled dogs birthplace
#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 ...

Siberian rivers stones’ mystery
#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 ...