History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Families, neighbourhoods, houses, towns, cities, and the country cheered for hockey players. In Norilsk, the love for this sport was particularly fuelled by the opening of the Arctica sports palace. Its own indoor ice arena launched a new round of sports development in our ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. But it did not stop at the stage of ‘red tents’ where brave polar explorers spend the winter. The goal was to provide Norilsk residents with the same level of everyday comfort as in any city on the mainland. The most obvious step in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Snow drifts have been and remain a huge problem for our city. And Norilsk snow removal services are the only ones in the country that were initially engaged not just in road clearing, but in snowfighting. Until Norilsk learnt to cope with the snow element, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Climate is not a matter of comfort for us. It forces us to reckon with it every day, influencing both everyday plans and the entire life of the city and the combine’s work. Snow and snowstorms have become, one might say, our main attraction. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Firstly, its name did not include the name of V. Mayakovsky - it was awarded only on the theater’s 20th anniversary. Secondly, it did not have the current name either: at first the theater was called the Second Polar (taking into account that the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At that time, the government decree on the further development of the Norilsk combine included the design of a thousand-bed hospital. However, designing does not mean building: 25 years passed before its completion in 1993. The project for the current hospital in Oganer had at ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Back in the early 1970s, demographers predicted that 200 thousand people would live in Norilsk by the new millennium. The demographers miscalculated - already in the mid-1980s, there were almost 300 thousand residents in the NPR. Even by the most modest estimates, it was clear ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was a sports, cultural, and administrative center. In the 1940s, meeting were held there, solemn rallies took place at the first Norilsk stadium on this street, and the Victory in the World War II on May 9, 1945, was also celebrated there. Octyabrskaya ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In different years, this place had different names: Rudnichny settlement, Avariyny settlement, Gornozavodsky district. And its center, according to the architects, was Zavenyagin square. The center of the current Old town, which now bears the name of Avraamy Zavenyagin, began to be designed in the ...