History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On April 30, 1964, the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted a resolution on the Mayak-2 underground mine construction. But soon, on April 2, 1965, on the initiative of young builders, it was renamed Komsomolsky. On March 29, 1965, the first explosion thundered, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Opening the mine field from the surface was carried out by vertical shafts VS-9, VZS-1 and VSS-1. In 1991, the Norilskshahtstroy trust created SPU-5 specifically for the construction of Skalisty. Its specialists began the construction of capital mining workings coming from VS-9. The Skalisty mine. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the 1970s and 1980s, the consumer goods deficit intensified in the USSR. And on a national scale, a policy was pursued when the Soviet industry giants - up to the automobile industry and military plants - in parallel with their main products release, ...

#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 ...

#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 ...

#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, ...

#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, ...

#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 ...

#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 ...