History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The article titled Hurricane over our city described its consequences: “A terrible snowstorm, which local old-timers hadn’t experienced for many years, burst out on the 15th and on the night of January 16 over Norilsk. In the morning it was warm and quiet in the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first remembered agricultural experience belongs to the 1926 expedition participants: on the bath roof, geologists made peat beds and planted salad, onions and radishes. Ten years later, vegetables and herbs were planted in both open ground and greenhouses. In 1937, experimental polar agriculture began ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the 1930s and especially in the 1940s, it was not easy for Norilsk residents to make their homes. All efforts were thrown to the metal production, it was almost impossible to buy household items in Norilsk stores. Therefore, the new Norilsk people brought ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1967, the district committee of the trade union and the combine directorate made a joint decision on the establishment of honorary titles. The Personnel Worker title - for those who worked for more than ten years, and the Labor Veteran - for those ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Photo masters offered not only postcards with the Norilsk environs sights images, also photo collages. Any portrait could be imprinted in a congratulatory postcard for the New Year or Women’s Day. Such souvenirs were in great demand among Norilsk residents. Most of the them had ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Taimyr is called the Land of a Thousand Lakes. Its physical map is full of blue color. Norilsk is surrounded by large rivers and lakes, as well as countless streams and shallow water bodies. And this is not just beauty, but also the most ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk people, like the Eskimos, have many designations for the unity of the raging wind and snow. Blizzards and snow blasts, drifts and snowstorms: everything falls on Norilsk during the long winter. Our snowdrifts take on such epic sizes and shapes that the local ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was a unique construction: the world's first high-voltage transmission line, built in the conditions of the Far North, on metal poles. The double-circuit power transmission line-220 length is 158 kilometers, of which 40 had to be pulled through forested areas. For 118 kilometers, the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Of course, exhibitions of paintings by local artists and collectors were held before: in the House of Engineering Workers, in the Palace of Culture, and one of the first exhibition halls appeared in 1957 in the red corner of the Copper plant. But the ...