History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Arctic at the Soviet time was like space for the country: the main goal, and a reason for pride, and a unifying idea. Such famous science fiction writers as Alexander Belyaev, Alexander Kazantsev, Leonid Platov and Vladimir Obruchev wrote about it. It is about ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Komsomolsky park had gazebos, benches, wooden dance floors and verandas. Youth festivals, concerts, dances were arranged there. Print cotton or staple balls were a beautiful sight. Girls were allowed to the ball on one condition - they had to be in a print cotton or ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This Norilsk “Shanghai” arose due to an acute shortage of housing. Therefore, the authorities had to put up with the barracks and call them “individual buildings”. Here is a note from the Norilsk press in 1957 with a demand to “put things in order in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. But in the 1960s, the active construction of panel houses began. Those houses were erected by industrial methods in a matter of months, and they satisfied the housing hunger in Norilsk. Residents of the villages were also resettled in new buildings. Families from unfurnished dirty ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. They were located at mines, construction sites and factories, and the course of their life depended on the departmental affiliation. At the same time, only six settlements had the official status of a workers’ settlement. It was Norilsk itself - it received this status in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first astronomical point for reference to the terrain was necessary when creating maps. All other points were tied to it. The Zero Point was set up by members of the Norilsk expedition in 1919, which was organized by the Tomsk Technological Institute mining department’s ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. But in reality, the relay baton passed from geologists to operators as early as in 1928, when the state-owned gold-platinum joint-stock company Soyuzzoloto began to work in the Norilsk region. It was on Norilsk platinum that the main bet was made at that time. In ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In addition to three visiting documentary filmmakers, Norilsk residents also joined the process, and did the lion's share of the work. The script was written in just a few days by Evgeny Ryabchikov, one of the first Norilsk journalists. Engineer Igor Morel provided administrative and ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The discoverer of Norilsk, Nikolay Urvantsev, recalled that as follows: “The Siberian Geological Committee decided to continue exploration work in Norilsk in winter conditions. Conduct regular meteorological observations throughout the wintering period in order to establish the weather conditions influence on winter work in Norilsk.Simultaneously ...