Artefacts
Silver against evil spirit
In the ethnographic collection of the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore, Dolgan jewelry made of metal is well represented. The most unique exhibits in the collection are hryvnias made of 500 silver. The museum acquired these items in the 80s of the XX century. The ...
Memoirs of architect
The memories of Vitold Nepokoichitsky about the urban planning experience of the first designers were written down in 12 notebooks. For the first time, manuscripts were taken from the museum funds for the exposition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the combine in 1995. After ...
Chain mails and helmets were not only for knights
Together with the chain mail and the helmet, a geodetic expedition that worked in 1968 on the territory of the Ust-Yenisei region near the village of Nosok discovered a double-edged spear and a stone tool. Experts attributed the finds to the 17th century, to the ...
Norilskstroy had two bosses in 1935
The martyrology of the Krasnoyarsk Memorial includes the first two heads of Norilskstroy (the first constructing organization responsible for the Norilsk combine construction). In the summer of 1988, Elgard Zinger came to Norilsk from Moscow in search of information about his father, the head of ...
Famous Finn brought sextant to Dudinka
Initially, the gift was intended for the captain of the Dudinsky seaport Valery Shanduro. Shanduro Jr. meeting the film crew of the documentary "30 days in the Arctic with Ville Haapasalo" brought the sextant to the museum after the filmmakers left. At the family council, it ...
Unpublished history
The first history chronicle of the Norilsk combine was written 75 years ago. For six decades, the four-volume typewritten text has been kept in the Norilsk Museum. On the title page of the first volume with the contents of the History... there are two pencil signatures. ...
Crucible from Mangazeya survived to our days
A famous polar explorer Mikhail Belov led the expedition that studied the ancient Russian city for four field seasons, in 1972-1975. The most important discovery made during the excavations was a foundry, where metal was melted in crucibles. From the monograph on Mangazeya, prepared by historians ...
Reindeer riding in details
The objects that characterize the traditional occupations of the Taimyr indigenous peoples is a separate group in the collection. While the museum is quarantined, its specialists continue presenting their collections on the museum’s website and social networks. One of the latest publications is dedicated to ...
Prison money called “elephants”
The GULAG currency in the Museum of Norilsk appeared almost at the same time as the first domestic publications on the forced-labor camp money - in the early 1990s. Until that time, the receipts of special purpose camps of the OGPU (Joint State Political Directorate) ...