Artefacts

#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 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Since 1985, the Norilsk Museum has kept a set of objects, documents and photographs of Vladimir Domarev, a member of the fourth geological expedition led by Pavel Alliluyev and Nikolay Urvantsev. Then in 1925, a graduate of the Leningrad Mining Institute, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. By 1990, the graphic artist and painter from Norilsk Sergey Morozov had become well known not only in the Krasnoyarsk region. Participant of different kinds of exhibitions, from city to all-Union ones, he became a member of the Union of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The work of the sculptor Anatoly Grigoriev was the only genuine exhibit of the anniversary exhibition, which worked in the museum for almost two years (it was dismantled during the spring quarantine due to coronavirus). The portrait has a double ...