History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA.THIS IS TAIMYR. The inscription on the picture back says that the whale died and was washed ashore in the area of the Levinsky Sands village. Then it was transferred to Dudinka. It happened in 1948. Interesting that there are two shots with a whale in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Since, according to the specialists’ calculations, communication channels should be removed as far as possible from the buildings’ foundations so that the soil under them does not melt, they were laid on a green strip in the middle of the street. Specialists were struggling over ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Air communication between the city and the mainland was already opened, but the situation with land roads from the airport to the big Norilsk was more complicated. A normal road was not yet built, and the railway line from the Alykel station to the airfield ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the early 1940s, the first fountain was built near the thermal power plant building, which was a kind of the city face. The power engineers themselves built a reservoir out of brick fragments, revetted it and connected it to water. In the mid-1940s, another ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The future construction scale was enormous. At first, Lesosibirsk was considered as a base for it, where the Norilsk matte had to be delivered along the Yenisey. The history of the 1930s was repeated, when it was proposed only to mine ore and make semi-finished ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A hut of 230 cubic meters was made the first-aid post, “completely unadapted for a hospital facility”. The medical staff smeared the log walls with clay and painted. The medical hut housed a general ward, a waiting room and a pharmacy. The composition of the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. And what used to be a cafeteria with a donut machine became a cocktail bar. Two bar counters, high ottomans, soft chairs, a fireplace and even an exhibition of Czech crystal. And also a large assortment of cocktails, punches, soft drinks. They were prepared by the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The predecessor of the corporate university, the department of personnel training, was created by the order of Avraamy Zavenyagin in 1938. The Norilsk combine under construction needed qualified workers. A year later, the first professional courses appeared - for steam boilers maintenance workers. The first ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk railway construction began in 1936 and was fraught with many difficulties. The first narrow-gauge railway was literally made of snow and ice: the sleepers were laid on snow embankments sprinkled with water. The first bridges were also built from ice. Obviously, in the ...