
History spot

Norilsk footballers coached by Spartak ex-captain
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. “Starostin in Russian means football player”, wrote the Belgian press after the working Olympics in Antwerp in 1937. In these competitions, four Soviet team players at once bore this name. These were the four Starostin brothers. In 1942, all four brothers were arrested, as were five ...

Plane with platinum crashed in Taimyr
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1938, on the Avraamy Zavenyagin’s initiative, a mining department was created in Norilsk, which worked out the sedimentary deposits of the Ugolny Ruchey (Coal Creek). Experienced prospectors with homemade wooden trays received small, but tangible by weight, grains of native platinum. Ugolny Ruchey. 07.21.1979. The ...

More than 700 minerals found in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Among minerals found here there are those that were first discovered in the Norilsk ores. As discoverers, Norilsk geologists gave the minerals our local names. This is how Norilskite, Taimyrite, Polarite, Putaronite, Harelahite, Talnakhite and Mayakite appeared in the world list. Geological exploration expeditions And about a ...

First Norilsk mayor was woman
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Before her, two chairmen of the Norilsk village council - men - in turn stayed in this post for only a few months, and then went to the front. In those years, the council was in charge of the registry office, the military registry office, ...

Tech students lived in school building
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Central part and two wings, six floors plus functional attic and basement. And the lift is probably the first one in Norilsk. A group of NMMC students receive textbooks in the technical school library. 1946LaboratoryAssembly hallReading room1950s The building, designed by architects Nepokoychitsky and Minenko, ...

Norilsk Arctica was first ice palace in Krasnoyarsk region
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. But the USSR Council of Ministers set a different task: to expand the project to a large sports complex, "a grandiose sports complex, the northernmost in the world." Two sites were considered for construction - on 50 Years of October street and in the area ...

Until 19th century Western scientists did not believe in permafrost existence
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Russian explorers who conquered Siberia in the 17th century reported to the capital: “The earth, sir, does not melt even in the middle of summer”. In 1820-1830, the merchant Fyodor Shergin dug a 30-meter well in Yakutsk in search of drinking water in the ...

Taimyr was science fiction novels scene more than once
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Arctic at the Soviet time was like space for the country: the main goal, and a reason for pride, and a unifying idea. Such famous science fiction writers as Alexander Belyaev, Alexander Kazantsev, Leonid Platov and Vladimir Obruchev wrote about it. It is about ...

In 1950-60s cotton balls held in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Komsomolsky park had gazebos, benches, wooden dance floors and verandas. Youth festivals, concerts, dances were arranged there. Print cotton or staple balls were a beautiful sight. Girls were allowed to the ball on one condition - they had to be in a print cotton or ...