History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. “Man, like no other living creature, loves to create additional difficulties for himself. This is precisely what explains the desire to have his own car”. This is a quote from the legendary Soviet film Beware of the Car! And, perhaps, in our Arctic region ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. When planning the city, greening was supposed to be not only on dividing lawns, but also inside the blocks, between houses and along driveways and passages. The first lawns were laid out in the mid-1940s in the center of Sevastopolskaya street. It all started with ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. From the time Norilsk received city status until the mid-1960s, all city government structures were located in another building – on Sevastopolskaya street, 7. It was Sevastopolskaya that was both the official and cultural heart of Norilsk. And on Leninsky prospect, between one of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This area of ​​Norilsk was built in the early 1960s, when the construction industry switched from Stalin-era buildings to standard Hrushchev-era buildings. In addition, by that time, practice had shown that long straight streets did not protect the city from snow drifts, as expected. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The construction of the first Hrushchev-era apartment buildings began in its courtyards. And it was there that city planners dreamed of a completely new type of housing for northerners: a courtyard, a street, and even a city under a dome. Zavenyagin street was designed ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This street was built in the second half of the 1950s, when the trend towards simplification in construction had already begun. And the houses on Sovetskaya look much more modest than the first Stalin buildings. In this photo from the mid-1950s, house No. 8 is ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. One of its earliest mentions can be found in the project of the future hospital campus, drawn up in 1952. It listed the lines limiting the future 20th block: Pionerskaya (B. Hmelnitsky street), Monchegorskaya (Kirov street), as well as two nameless streets “limiting the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. According to the first plans for the development of Norilsk, Lomonosov street was supposed to open onto Gvardeyskaya square, which was initially planned to be built square, not round. Together with Lomonosov street, four more streets were supposed to converge here: Stalinsky prospekt, Ordzhonikidze ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Muslim mosque became the third ‘house of God’ in the city of Norilsk. The registration of the religious association of Norilsk Muslims took place in October 1992. At the end of 1993, construction of the Norilsk mosque, the northernmost one in the world, ...