History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Only in 1961 the city’s main avenue was united under the name of the revolution leader. The Ordzhonikidze name of was transferred to the other end of the city. The square at the confluence of the new Ordzhonikidze street with Komsomolskaya and Krasnoyarskaya ones was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In reality, the airfield’s melodic old name is still in the everyday life of the Norilsk people, it caresses the ear, regardless of whether you arrive or depart. The decision to build a new airport for Norilsk was taken by the USSR Ministers Council in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Given this growth in the population of Big Norilsk, the authorities in the 1970s were looking for a new place for another satellite city. They considered different options, but the village of Taimyr seemed to be the most promising. The designers stopped at the site behind ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Valyok was initially housed in two small wooden houses for 50 people with wards for ten people. In 1960, a project for the clinic expansion appeared, which included the construction of five capital buildings - medical, administrative and bedroom. The construction of the new blocks, united ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For 20 years after the war, the Norilsk people worked six days a week. And the only day off was regularly spent for public works: the city grew, and the method of people's construction was very popular. But in 1966, it was widely announced: the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The power plant was built according to the Teploelektroproekt Institute’s Leningrad branch’s project. Initially, the design capacity of CHPP-2 was 600 MW, the main fuel was hard coal, and the emergency fuel was diesel fuel. The CHPP-2 construction began in March 1965, and in 1969, the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The lake resembles a Scandinavian fjord stretched among the mountains: its length is about 100 kilometers, the width varies from 14 kilometers to 300 meters at the end. But the depth of the Lama is a very interesting question. Most often, figures of 250-300 meters ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the Old City on lake Krasivoye, for example, there was a swimming station with paths and a makeshift diving tower. And nearby, on lake Rudnoye, there was a boat and rowing station. But the largest was the water station with a yacht club (!) ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The oldest residential buildings in the city today are the house No. 1 on Bogdan Hmelnitsky street and the hotel wing on Leninsky prospekt 2: they were built in 1947. In the 1950s, when architecture was not an industry but author's art, a maximum of ...