History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This happened to the geologist Nikolay Urvantsev, when in the summer of 1929 he explored the banks of the Lower Taimyr river with a small expedition. In the middle of the journey, the expedition entered the basin of the Gorbita and Volchya (Wolf) rivers, where ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The foamy drink was then produced by barrels, and only a small part was poured into glass bottles. In addition to beer, they also prepared pruno (braga) and vitamin kvass, the same one that fought scurvy. And soon carbonated soft drinks, syrups and fruit drinks ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The city boundaries were called lines, not streets, in the St. Petersburg manner. Apart from the Southern line there was also the Eastern line - now Talnahskaya, and the Komsomolskaya line - on the western outskirts. The Southern line might have been called that till ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On a polar night, the entrance group in the Stalinist baroque style with columns proudly glowed with the inscription: Norilsk Combine. It was both the main entrance, symbolically separating the Norilsk settlement’s residential area from the industrial site, and the checkpoint, where workers and specialists ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. We signed an agreement with Finnish specialists on turnkey installation and maintenance of a new technological scheme at the Nadezhda metallurgical plant under construction. Finns began to live and work in the northern city in the mid-1970s. It was important for the city and ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. An interesting document was written in 1930 by the management of Norilskstroy. At that time, the transport issue was solved in winter with the help of reindeer teams, which delivered goods from Dudinka. But in December 1930, due to the election campaign for council deputies, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the summer of 1930, four buildings were allocated for housing, designed for 25–30 people. But about 250 people arrived at the future Norilsk Combine unfolding construction. The new settlers were housed in attics and in tents, where they lived until the snow. In winter, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR.  It was named Taimyrsky. “The shafts of the fourth Talnah giant will be four to five times deeper than the Mayak shafts”, wrote the Gornyak newspaper. In December 1978, the air supply shaft was handed over: for the first time in the USSR, in the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Horizontal driving began in 1972. 10 design and 25 construction organizations participated in the mine design and construction. Talnah miners continued to set records at Oktyabrsky, accelerating the pace adopted at the construction of the first two mines - Mayak and Komsomolsky. The Hero ...