History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. That temporary landing strip was built in the tundra, because the Nadezhda (Hope) airport, the Norilsk air gateway, was not enough. For an airfield, the name Nezhdanny (Unexpected) is rather strange. Especially in the conditions of the Far North, where, due to blizzards and snowstorms, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first buildings - barracks, a dining room, a house for civilians and a house for guards, technological premises and, of course, towers and a watch - were erected by convict builders where geologists worked. But when in the mid-1940s the first coal adits were ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. There were light, cargo and duty horses. It was forbidden to use them for other purposes. In the 1930s, Norilsk and Dudinka were connected by a horse-drawn road: the fare was 70 rubles and 70 kopecks per kilogram of luggage. Horses were involved in everything. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was first described by the scientist, traveler and explorer Alexander Middendorf in the 19th century. He referred to them as “the wildly romantic rocky ridges called the Norilsk stones”. He called one of the mountains Bear Stone. The first scientist who explored our region ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The cure for scurvy was offered by the prisoner-chemist Grigory Kalyuski, who led the sanitary and bacteriological laboratory. Back in 1938, the laboratory began studying the flora of Taimyr for the vitamin C. Kalyusky himself drew a diagram of the unit for the larch needles ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The scribes moved by swimming along the northern rivers, with argishes - reindeer caravans - and on foot through the virgin taiga and tundra, describing in detail each native houshold, its composition, economy and way of life. Along with the difficulties of movement, the information ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This fact gave the green light to the transition to pile foundations - and named the exact objects to start with: residential buildings, kindergartens, shops and schools in the 30-38 quarter. The number meant the courtyards between Zavenyagin street, which was a testing ground for ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1942, the first local stadium – Dynamo – was built at the current Mechanical plant workshops site. It had two fields, as well as a walking alley, a fountain, an arbor-pavilion and a monument to Stalin, obligatory in those days. In summer, all ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the late 1960s, a large-scale reorganization of public transport began in Norilsk: new routes were added, including the Talnah and Kayerkan directions, conductors were abolished, and composters appeared in buses. There was also a need for a separate bus station. It was opened in ...