History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Housing construction was a priority in the Soviet Union time, and almost no money was allocated for social and cultural life. Therefore, halls with high ceilings, a spacious foyer with stucco, a main staircase with columns, a reading room and an auditorium were built ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Prior to that, the trading scheme was more complex. All goods were behind the counters, and each department had its own queue. At the same time, the sellers did not release the goods there, but only weighed and wrote checks. With those checks, buyers ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Almost all of these points, however, were built into the first floors of residential buildings. There is still a legend going around: they say, they did it on purpose so that the Norilsk people in winter could go shopping all over Leninsky through the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the 1950s, the city authorities were looking for ways to improve the sanitary condition in Norilsk. Here is what the architect Witold Nepokoichitsky wrote on this subject in 1957: “A properly organized waste disposal system is of great importance for the improvement of residential areas. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Komsomol members of the Norilsk expedition in 1931 was met by Komsomol “old-timers”. At the same time, a Komsomol geological exploration team was formed to work on the Norilsk-2 drilling rigs. In 1932, the first district Komsomol conference was held in Taimyr, it was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On its first floor there was a new grocery store - the first in this part of the city. It also did not have its own name. It was modestly called the shop No. 11, and then grew up and became a store No. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On the ship Alexander Matrosov there was the vanguard of those six thousand Muscovites and Leningraders who, with vouchers from the Komsomol district committees (in the photo above - seeing off the young enthusiasts at the Kazan station) went to the Far North to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1959, the city newspaper wrote: “The construction of a children’s sanatorium is nearing completion. On November 3, a special commission will accept the new building. Little Norilsk residents will receive another wonderful gift.” The building of the children’s sanatorium for 150 pupils was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Snowfalls in June, July, and August are regularly recorded by meteorologists. The popular proverb “summer is short, but with little snow” in the Arctic is no joke. The very first meteorological observations in Norilsk began when there was neither a city nor plants: in the ...