History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The buildings’ colors were determined by the natural materials used in construction. Therefore, different shades of gray and pale sand tones predominated: darker at the bottom, lighter at the top. According to recollections, even the prime minister of the USSR Alexey Kosygin, who visited Norilsk ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On the eve of the New Year, we will share them. Today these are the memories of the Kiriyenko spouses, metallurgists evacuated to Norilsk from Monchegorsk. “The winter of 1941–1942 in Norilsk was not cold, but snowy and stormy. Our residential village of Gorstroy (the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1957, after graduation, Gorodnitsky joined the Yenisey geological exploration expedition, where he led surveys on the right bank of the Yenisey, in the area of Igarka and Norilsk. At that time, Gorodnitsky worked with many well-known geologists in Norilsk, including the Norilsk ore ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It has the richest history, dating back to 1935, when a primary school was opened under the trade union committee of the Norilskstroy management. The school moved at least three times: first there was a barrack at the Zero Point, in 1939 it was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1942, all the four brothers were arrested, as well as five more of their colleagues in the Spartak sports society. They said that this was Beria’s way of getting back at the team for its victories over Dynamo, the NKVD team. The football ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1944, the American newspaper New York Herald Tribune published an article entitled Russians are Building a Nickel Empire in Northern Siberia. Remarkably, it was stated that the author, correspondent Maurice Hindus, transmitted it, “radioing from Norilsk”. In general, the article by Maurice Hindus, by ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Nikolay Urvantsev was a living legend of the Arctic for several generations of geologists. Colleagues at the Research Institute of Arctic Geology recalled him as “a tall, thin, slightly stooped man in a padded jacket, whose name was deleted from all his works”, a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. They are separated from us by the wide valley of the Rybnaya river. The name Imangda comes from the Evenki “imanna” - “snow”. In 1940, Norilsk geologists found an ore deposit there. In 1941, a geological exploration party was sent to Imangda, and drilling began ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It cannot be said that the new houses were more beautiful, but it is clear that they were built faster and easier. Norilsk resident Joseph Shamis recalled how the transition to large-panel housing construction began in Norilsk. “In Norilsk, almost from the first steps of ...