History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The work of the geological expedition of 1923 on the future Norilsk site was coming to an end. But Moscow never sent wages for the workers, and they threatened to stop exploration. You need to go to the capital and literally knock out money. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The expedition consisted of only four people: leader Ushakov, geologist Urvantsev, radio operator Hodov and hunter Zhuravlev. But in Ushakov’s book On the Unexplored Land, which described the heroic two-year wintering, at first only three of them were mentioned. It is hard to imagine what ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The book by the Krasnoyarsk journalist Georgy Kublitsky was published by the State Publishing House of Children's Literature in 1949. The book told about the northern cities on the Yenisey river: Turuhansk, Igarka, Dudinka - and about the new city of Norilsk. “Circle on the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. They kept cattle, grew vegetables and potatoes. 50 hectares of forest-tundra were allocated for vegetable gardens on the territory of the present city. Cabbage was the best. It was the first vegetable to be grown in open ground. In 1938, the state farm harvested 14.4 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first real guest house was erected on the village main street in those times - Octyabrskaya. However, the hotel quickly turned into a kind of engineers’ hostel: the guests stayed in Norilsk for a long time, and they had nowhere to move out. It ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. He ordered the play creating to Victor Levashov, a playwright from former Norilsk residents, in the past - an employee of the Norilsk television studio. This is how the performance Special Appointment was born. At first glance, it is about the heroism of the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Norilsk, a special northern modification of LiAZs for cold climate regions was operated. It was distinguished by thermal insulation of the body, windows with double glass, and an additional heater in the cabin. The manufacturer - Likinsk bus plant - declared a temperature scale ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1965, an order was issued by the USSR chief state sanitary doctor on preventive ultraviolet irradiation. This concerned underground workers in the coal and mining industries and the child population in the Far North. However, Norilsk doctors have always known that light starvation causes ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1942, the first Norilsk thermal power plant provided electricity and heat, but the first steam pipelines led to the industrial site, and residential buildings remained on a temporary stove heating scheme. Primitive local boiler houses were also a temporary measure. By the beginning of ...