History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This architectural dominant was conceived in the style of Moscow skyscrapers, in the so-called Stalinist Empire style, combining baroque and classicism. One of the options even suggested placing a hundred-meter television center antenna on the tower. In the mid-1950s, taking into account the high-altitude load, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Imangda mountains and the river of the same name lie 70 kilometers southeast of Norilsk. They are separated from us by a wide valley of the Rybnaya river. The Imanda name comes from the Evenk “imanna” – “snow”. That is, “imangda” means “snowy”. In 1940, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. After the Great Patriotic War, several printed publications were issued in Norilsk: a newspaper for party members - Stalinets, Production Bulletin - for camps prisoners, and even a scientific magazine Technical Information Bulletin. Interesting that for reasons of secrecy they did not mention the names ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For example, the city of Nome in Alaska was taken as a landmark, in those years it was the most comfortable settlement in the Arctic. When in 1938 Stalin was meeting a group of the Norilsk combine workers, he expressed the wish that our ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Lake Dolgoye in its history was not only a place of recreation and city beach, but also a landing site for the first seaplanes and the main source of water. In 1935, the first ShA-2 seaplane, which arrived in Norilsk from Dudinka, landed on the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Avraamiy Zavenyagin, the combine and the camp head, entrusted the work on the map and survey of the area to the design department of Norilsk. This was the first task for the young architect Vitold Nepokoichitsky, who had just arrived in the city. Experts identified ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the mid-1940s, it was planned to build a hydroelectric power station on Pyasina, which would be larger in capacity than the Volhovskaya hydroelectric station in the Leningrad region. They even began to transfer cargo to the place of future construction. However, this project ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. However, toponymy researcher Anna Barbolina clarifies: “ogonnior” is a respectful appeal to an old person. Oganer is closer in meaning to the Georgian “batono” or the Turkic “aksakal”: not “old man”, but “elder”. Norilsk mythology even names a specific person, after whom this place was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Another toponym for this area is Haraelah. This is the name of the mountains closest to Talnah and the river flowing from them, from Dolgan they are “spruce”. A hundred years ago, the geologist Nikolay Urvantsev visited the Talnah river valley. Perhaps he was the ...