Artefacts

#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 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The director of the Taimyr House of Folk Art Lyubov Popova says that its specialists bring objects of material culture, which the indigenous inhabitants of the peninsula once used in everyday life and in ritual ceremonies, as a rule, from ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The gold fund of the Taimyr House of Folk Art (THFA) - a collection of decorative, applied and fine arts - is directly related to the masters who at different times worked and are still working today in the Main ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. They have survived only in myths. According to the legends, the sikhirtya were of short stature with blond hair and fair eyes. They lived underground, grazed mammoths and rode dog sleds - in the 7th century, 1300 years ago, at ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Two ancient sculptures made of a mammoth tusk, found by archaeologists at the mouth of the Kova river in the Kezhemsky region, were recognized as having no analogues in the whole of Northern Eurasia. The finds are figurines of mammoth ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the Taimyr College, the Narta’s Trail exhibition is being held, which presents ethnographic objects of the indigenous peoples of the peninsula. “The items were collected either on expeditions or donated by the owners. Since the House of Folk Art is ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Vladimir Rusanov is an Arctic explorer, geologist, author of a number of scientific works, head of Russian scientific expeditions, including the one aboard the Hercules hunting schooner, which disappeared off the coast of Taimyr in 1912. After the successful completion of ...