History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Initially, on the first general plans of Norilsk, the current Octyabrskaya square was called differently – the Entrance square. It was the main gate of the modern part of Norilsk. Norilsk residents entered the city through Octyabrskaya square from the side of the Old town ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. 25 kilometers from Norilsk is a short distance. But on the way there was the Norilskaya river, and behind it - impassable tundra “jungle”. Until the spring of 1961, all cargoes were transported to the geologist settlement Talnah from Norilsk in a roundabout way: down ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The reason is that ground electrodes practically do not work in frozen ground conditions. As the first polar engineers calculated, in order to earth only one object acceptable, about four tons of iron would have to be hammered into the permafrost. Temporary power plant in Norilsk. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. They built the dam to raise the water level in the lake, which was originally the main source of water for both technological and domestic needs. The dam construction in 1942 was entrusted to the chief engineer of Spetsstroy (Norilsk building organization), Vladimir Vsesvyatsky. It ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. That handicraft transformation was made by local craftsmen in Norilsk garages. Such transport wasn’t comfortable or warm, but during peak hours, passengers hung in clusters on the steps. Since 1944, batches of lend-lease trucks arrived in Norilsk. Basically, those were three-axle American Studebakers with a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Indeed, in the middle lane October is far from being a winter month, and in Norilsk at this time the ground is covered with snow, and the polar night with frosts has not yet come. In those years, 30 members of the men's team from ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The monument to the revolution leader was erected in front of the building of the first combined heat and power plant, and to the father of the peoples - on the main alley of the Trud stadium. It is difficult to document the years of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Subsequently, the combine maintained more than a hundred points in Taimyr, where fishers caught fish, sea animals, processed venison and fur. The industrial procurement department had a large economy: its own fleet, a fish factory, a construction site. There were air and water ports ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. And the fish gave the names to the river, the mountain range from where it originates, as well as the village and the Norilsk sanatorium. From the geologist Nikolay Urvantsev’s memoirs: “In the evenings, our shepherds come to the chum to drink tea and talk. We ...