History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was supposed to become the new social and cultural center of the city, but city planners could not decide for a long time what exactly its face should be. According to the first plans for the Norilsk development, this square was supposed to look ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This was one of the first orders of the Norilskstroy head Vladimir Matveyev: “For the purpose of introducing physical culture and developing shooting sports, organize a club of the Dynamo sports society”. It is not difficult to guess why it was called Dynamo: in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Buyers could choose the goods themselves and go with them to the checkout. This is no surprise now, but earlier all the goods were only on the other side of the counters. In Norilsk, such departments appeared at the same time as in the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1939, the combine’s head, Avraamy Zavenyagin, ordered the opening of a museum of ore and non-metallic minerals of Norilsk at the geological department. It was more of a scientific exhibition - not for visitors, but for geologists: a kind of chronology of their ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Surprisingly, Norilsk residents remember not only the chic Norilsk restaurants, but also those small food outlets with no less trepidation and nostalgia. In Soviet times, small snack bars were in demand in Norilsk: now they would be called fast food establishments. During the Soviet years, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Common or small kitchens were not conducive to cooking family dinners with several courses. So it was assumed that women freed from housework would buy ready-made meals and semi-finished products in culinary shops. In 1959, canteen No. 23 opened in the new building No. 16 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The city’s cafes and restaurants won all-Union competitions, even got awards at the exhibition of achievements of the national economy. People came to Norilsk for the rich polar supplies and high service culture. That is why it is the public catering establishments that still ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. However, that school was not located in today’s Norilsk, but in its predecessor, the Norilsk settlement on the Rybnaya river. Today we know it as the Chapel settlement. The children of Dolgans and Russian employees studied there. Whether that school should be considered ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Steam locomotives transported not only technological goods for production, but also carried out passenger transportation. Therefore, the railway tracks were in close proximity to residential buildings. And this concerned the development of not only the Old town, but also its new part - Gorstroy. ...