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Richard Harold Smith, or Dick Smith, is known not only for his multi-million dollar companies, social, political, cultural initiatives, but also for his aviation records. The 1982 flight, which lasted for 11 months and finished in Sydney, was registered as the longest ever. Seven years later, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For Norilsk, the status of a closed city was not new. In Soviet times, everyone came here with permission documents in their hands: Komsomol vouchers or job offers. However, even then incidents happened. For example, in the summer of 1956, gypsies suddenly raided Norilsk. A ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Information stands and honor boards were most often placed on Leninsky prospect. The walls of the houses there were decorated with Soviet advertising, they invited people to work at the plant, urged them to fly by plane or use the services of street photographers. At ...

To this date, the memorial complex In the Name of the Discoverers and First Builders was constructed at the Zero Point (the city starting point) in the Old Town. It included the First House of Norilsk, built by the Urvantsev’s expedition in 1921, and the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the beginning of the Norilsk construction, the designers believed that if, as in all cities, pipes were laid underground, no matter how well isolated they were, sooner or later the soil would thaw and the houses standing nearby could collapse. One of the options ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The main advantage of such transport in the North is the cheapness of electricity, especially in comparison with gasoline. But there was also a minus: the tram tracks would have to be regularly cleared of snow. As a result, by 1950, the tram idea ...

Pyotr Lomako believed in the future of Norilsk and did not disregard the Norilsk Combine while being a minister until 1986. That was the longest tenure in the ministerial post marked by the Guinness Book of Records. On a regular business trip, the minister visited the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first builders of the city and the plant arrived on the merchant Gadalov's two-deck steamboat Falcon, renamed Spartak on July 1. The first head of the Norilsk construction site Vladimir Matveev, the Mospromtrans survey team, led by the engineer Kudryavtsev, and the first ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For example, in the 1960s, there was an idea to reduce the cost of polar houses - to create construction bases in Krasnoyarsk, where the northern rise in prices would not affect products. And they even wanted to use airships to transport structures from ...