History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. From the book The City Where Trees Don’t Grow by Evgeniy Karpuk: “We returned to Norilsk by plane along the route Abakan - Krasnoyarsk - Turuhansk - Norilsk. We got off in Krasnoyarsk, and when boarding back, it suddenly turned out that my grandma didn’t ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Of course, every Norilsk author remembers his time. But everyone has a story to tell. Norilsk resident Evgeniy Karpuk (I don’t dare call him a former one) in the book The City Where Trees Don’t Grow recalls his childhood in the 1960s. “We lived ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Iossif Shamis was an engineer in the capital construction department. In the city, he was remembered for compiling a card index of Norilsk residents, conducting extensive correspondence with many of them, and recording memories. Here is one of his short stories - The First ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Here, for example, is an article by Sergey Shcheglov (Norilsky) entitled Capital of the Yenisey North. It was published in the spring of 1957 in the literary magazine Siberian Lights, which was published in Novosibirsk. “On a cloudless and windless morning, having climbed the mountains ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Waves of migration occurred in the late 1950s, when the Komsomol troops arrived, and in the 1960s, when the builders of Talnah were came, and in the 1970s, when the city was building the Nadezhda metallurgical plant. The brochure Norilsk and Norilsk Residents in 1978 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In those years, people rarely wrote about Norilsk; the city was just opening up to the country. It is interesting that the modern reader of the geographical sketch of the polar city from 1958 will not be familiar with everything described. “The wide Stalin avenue ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The main centers of attraction in the 1960s were Talnah, Messoyaha and, of course, Snezhnogorsk, but getting there was not easy. This is how, for example, Boris Ivanov’s book “Hello, Hantaika!” begins: Hantaika store. 1960sHantaika threshold before the hydroelectric power station construction start. The water ...

#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 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. There are probably more scientific works than books of any other genre. After all, every summer expeditions flew to the vast territories of Taimyr - geological, hydrological, zoological. After the field season, this entire army of scientists sat down to write reports, some of which ...