History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In addition, the collection Yenisey Province. 1822–2022. 200 Events in 200 Years is available at the link. The book also contains many events related to the North, Norilsk and the Norilsk combine development history. Let's list some of them. The baron de Toll’s expedition The collection authors ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. He was imprisoned in 1936, for his school passion for Trotskyism. He was sentenced to 10 years in labor camp, and transferred to Norillag. Here he worked in an experimental metallurgical shop, then in the design department, and later became the combine’s dispatcher. Victor Lunyov ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. According to the recollections of the first Norilsk residents, among the premiere films was Circus, a Soviet musical comedy staged by director Grigory Aleksandrov based on a play by Ilf, Petrov and Katayev. This film was shown all winter long, but the Norilsk people didn't ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Fantasy before the New Year meeting was limited only by improvised materials. Colored ribbons, cotton wool, wire, old newspapers, colored light bulbs, even tin cans from which birds and animals were carved were used. Here is how one of the first Norilsk women Zoya Nardina ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The depth to which the builders descended was almost equal to the height of the house. The foundations were deepened by 10, 15, or even 18 meters. But when in 1951 the question arose of building a large five-story house with a built-in department store ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was planned that a woman freed from domestic labor would buy ready-made meals and semi-finished products in cookeries and house kitchens, which in the 1960s began to be placed in almost every yard - on the ground floors of residential buildings. Later, in the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Christmas tree was placed in front of the first school building, not far from the Zero Point, which in those years was the public center of Norilsk. Later, the New Year celebration site moved to the skating rink: at first, the Christmas tree was ...

Norilsk and its environs became the set for the film based on the cult novel by Oleg Kuvaev in the summer of 2011. The first shooting of the Territory began on June 19 on the Putorana plateau and a month later continued in Norilsk on ...

One of the first Soviet-Cuban agreements was a document on rendering assistance to the republic in the development of the nickel industry. Many Soviet specialists worked in Cuba, including Norilsk metallurgists. In July 1975, immediately after the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the combine, the ...