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Artefacts

Nenets dolls collection from Lyubov Nenyang

Nenets dolls collection from Lyubov Nenyang

In addition to the author's poetry and prose in Russian and Nenets languages, processing of fairy tales and legends collected from fellow countrymen, the first writer from the Taimyr Nenets left a collection of Nenets children's toys to the museum. Woman in a Winter Parka was ...

Unique Dolgan torc celebrates its 135

Unique Dolgan torc celebrates its 135

Neck jewelry in the form of a hoop, or torc, has been known since the Bronze Age. In some nations they were worn by women, in others - by men, but at all times it was not only for decoration. For example, in the Middle Ages ...

Theater started together with combine

Theater started together with combine

The theater was named Zapolyarny and ceased existing three years later, though leaving the first stationary city theater in Igarka instead. The date of the foundation of the First Zapolyarny theater is 1936. The second Zapolyarny appeared in Norilsk in 1941. Letters from its first director ...

Radio reminding of a hero

Radio reminding of a hero

Among the artefacts for the national project of the Ministry of Culture of Russia, the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore, along with unique items of material and spiritual culture of the Arctic ethnic groups, included... a radio. Now this popular novelty of 1953 adorns the ...

Essay in Uchitelskaya Gazeta of 1957

Essay in Uchitelskaya Gazeta of 1957

Three decades later, the daughter of Natalya Tsaryova - the essay heroine - brought a typewritten copy of the publication and a unique photo chronicle of the first days of the first Norilsk school to the Norilsk Museum. Izolda Tsaryova arrived to the Far North with ...

First expedition to Norilsk sent by Kolchak

First expedition to Norilsk sent by Kolchak

A verbatim record of the Extraordinary Investigative Commission meetings on the case of the Russian government in Omsk Supreme Ruler, as Kolchak called himself, was published five years after his execution, in 1925. The circulation of the edition is only 10 thousand copies. One copy was ...

Arctic explorers ate oatmeal for breakfast

Arctic explorers ate oatmeal for breakfast

In 1973, during a summer trip along the western coast of Taimyr, one of the expedition groups discovered a food warehouse of the Eduard Toll’s expedition, founded in 1900. In the VII volume of the Chronicle of the North of 1975, it was reported that ...

Family rarities for Taimyr Museum

Family rarities for Taimyr Museum

The documents contain rich information about the people who worked and is still working in the port, information about the equipment that served the specialists in different years. The photo albums reflect the development of the Dudinka port and the Dudinka-Norilsk railway from 1954 to ...

For Soviet Arctic defense

For Soviet Arctic defense

At that time the artillery battery under the command of lieutenant Nikolay Kornyakov took a battle with the German cruiser Admiral Scheer at the coast of the Arctic village of Dikson. This is the only place on the map of the Krasnoyarsk region where military ...