History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Talnah was a symbol of the new life of Norilsk: its ores were found precisely when the city and the combine were on the verge of mothballing. And such a plot, of course, was a godsend for authors. Not just every year - almost every ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It is interesting that stoves were installed not only in Stalinist kitchens, but even in the first Hrushchev-era buildings - on Leninsky prospect, Zavenyagin street. And this despite the fact that kitchens there were very limited in usable area. Residents of those years complained ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The enthusiastic tone rose to the point that the thermal power plant splashers were called a ‘cascade of fountains’, and the old creaking lift to Shmidtiha mount was called the ‘Norilsk metro’. Reports about Norilsk can be found in many books. But it’s more interesting ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences Lev Mahlaev was a veteran of field geology: he had more than 30 expedition seasons in Taimyr, the Polar and Subpolar Urals. About his work, including in our region, he wrote an autobiographical book, Half a Century in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For five days, the guests were driven along an already established route: the Medvezhiy Roochey mine, the Copper plant, Talnah, construction sites, an experimental kindergarten, shops. The guests met with Norilsk residents - on the streets and at workplaces, in an excavator cabin or a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Often our city was a tourist attraction, which was visited and examined with interest by guests of varying degrees of fame. They described their impressions in books. It can be very interesting to read excerpts in the form of such ‘snapshots’ of our city. Here, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Industrial trade on Theater square opened a summer fair where they sold perfumes, haberdashery, stationery, household goods, as well as goods at discounted prices. Products for children and dishes were sold in kiosks and tents. In front of the Krasnoyarsk Stolby restaurant there was a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the same time, supplies were still good in Norilsk. And the flow of gifts sent to relatives changed direction - delicious parcels were no longer sent to the Arctic, but the other way round. Local authorities had to temporarily prohibit the acceptance of products ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The only thing that doesn’t grow here is the king of mushrooms – the porcini mushroom. It is believed that there are no poisonous mushrooms in Taimyr. This is explained by the fact that there are no toxins in permafrost soil that poisonous mushrooms absorb. However, ...