Artefacts

#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 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The participants of the Severozemelskaya expedition were informed that the airship Graf Zeppelin from Leningrad, after a short stop on Franz Josef Land, flew to Severnaya Zemlya, but the first inhabitants of Domashny Island were unable to meet it. Because ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1967, when the first excavations began by the Polar Expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Archeology’s Leningrad Branch in Taimyr, its 36-year-old leader was already a recognized scientist. It was Hlobystin who became the organizer of the ...