History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This was the so-called use of the atom for peaceful purposes. According to the official version - for deep seismic sounding of the earth's crust for minerals. The customer of the explosions was the USSR Ministry of Geology. Two explosions were carried out in 1975 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was not easy to conduct it - the poets were placed in different camp departments, poems were passed secretly. Applicants submitted five poems each, they were evaluated by a strict court according to a 12-point system: from ‘masterpiece’ to ‘mediocre’. The jury included ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. During this journey - from 1842 to 1845 - he discovered the Putorana plateau, became the first explorer of the Taimyr peninsula, the North Siberian lowland, the Amur-Zeya plain, the Stanovoy range, the lower part of the Amur basin, the southern coast of the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the 1930s, he began publishing sea stories. But real fame came to Nekrasov after the release of the famous story about the yacht Trouble. The Extraordinary Adventures of Captain Vrungel was published in a magazine version in 1937, and in a book edition ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the Arctic, Lev Gumilyov worked as a geotechnician, and then, as part of a geophysical expedition, he conducted exploration in the vicinity of Hantaiskoye lake. There were many scientists and intellectuals in Norilsk in those years. The astrophysicist Kozyrev, the philosopher and future science ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1945, he was sentenced to ten years under article 58, as they said at that time, ‘for overtalking’ - allegedly for calling some of the new buildings in Moscow ‘matchboxes’. For that Shtilmark was transferred to Norillag, more precisely, to the forced labor camp ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In ancient Rus (as Russia used to be called), fur was the equivalent of money. Fur goods were used to pay salaries, furs were exported abroad. In 1600, tsar Boris Godunov sent a hundred archers who laid a wooden prison. They called it Mangazeya - ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1930, extensive construction began on the future Norilsk site. The Norilskstroy building organization had many problems, but the main one was with workers and specialists. It was necessary to involve about 400 people in the work, but a little more than half arrived in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. These were mainly canned fish and vegetables of dubious taste. Or sea fish - blue whiting, pollock, hake, which could not compete with the local northern fish delicacy. To make unpopular products better bought, advertising offered recipes for dishes that could be prepared from them. For ...