History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Tungbass - by analogy with Kuzbass or Donbass - meant the Tunguska basin. From the Workdays book, published in Norilsk in 1944: “Arctic geologists are discovering new treasures in the Far North. Norilsk becomes a stronghold of its development, joins the great industrialization of the North. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. An agreement was concluded with the Finns on turnkey installation and maintenance of a new technological scheme at the Nadezhda under construction. The technology of flash smelting of copper-nickel concentrates, developed by Finnish specialists, but based, by the way, on a Russian invention, was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. How little was at that time known about the future northern city and Taimyr can be seen from the very first lines: “In the distant Hatanga tundra, in Norilsk, this spring the construction of a small town will begin”. We are 600 kilometers from ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. But before the construction of the railway, the way from Dudinka to Norilsk was only on foot or by sleigh. In November 1935, a horse-drawn road was laid along this route with stopping points in the area of lake Boganidskoye, at the 50th kilometer, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Taimyr opened in February 1954, when Norilsk was still a forced labor camp, on the first floor of a residential block of flats on Leninsky prospect, 12. “Curtains, chandeliers, sideboards, chairs covered with covers, paintings in carved frames, tables with snow-white tablecloths - all this ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Prior to that, it was listed as a settlement under the Chasovnya nomadic council. That is, Chasovnya on the Rybnaya river was the administrative center with the authorities. In 1939, along with the new status, Norilsk also received leadership functions: in the winter, 25 deputies ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Actually, the Mechanical plant was created in 1941 in order to manufacture its own non-standard spare parts for the combine. Norilsk design engineers designed NBS-2 for open-pit mining - the Norilsk drilling rig, and for underground work - the BMN model, which stands for Norilsk ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The name Severny Gorod was invented by the first general director of the television company, Igor Astapov. His authority in the journalistic circles of Norilsk was absolutely indisputable, behind him were the positions of editor-in-chief of the city newspaper Zapolyarnaya Pravda, a couple of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Its first inhabitants were residents of emergency houses and families with many children, who were waiting for their four- and five-room apartments: in the first year, 144 such families were relocated to Oganer. Fire victims from Kirov street also received apartments there: in 1993, ...