History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk chronicler Iosif Shamis wrote about one unusual operation in his Novel about Surgery: Norilsk chief surgeon, RSFSR honored doctor, medical sciences candidate Victor Kuznetsov. 1960 The combine’s hospital surgical department teamCombine hospital library. 1944 “In the mid-1940s, a pretty young woman lived and worked ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Reinforced concrete foundations for columns, girders, crossbars were made on plank platforms near the building under construction, then mounted at the assembly sites. As construction expanded in the city, they began to make door and window lintels, small mobile houses, curbs for roads. In the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Alexander Gorr was one of the first in the country to propose the use of local raw materials in the Far North for the production of food products on an industrial scale. He became a laureate of the USSR Council of Ministers Prize for ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Two factors justified such “independence”: the remoteness from Norilsk and the sufficient number of inhabitants. But the latter - nearly five thousand people - was reached taking into account not only the population of Kayerkan itself, but also residents of nearby villages and railway ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. During the years of the Great Patriotic War, the following facilities were built in Norilsk: a nickel plant, a sintering and small concentrating plant, a sulfuric acid plant and an oxyliquite plant, the Zapolyarny mine, the Ugolny Ruchey mine, a cobalt plant, an airfield ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Barges, lighters, tugboats, rare passenger ships moored near the shore, but could not come close, and long wooden ladders were thrown onto them, along which the arrived equipment was unloaded and Norilsk coal was loaded manually. Here is how the Norillag prisoner Iosif Shamis recalled ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Most of the options and proposals concerned two undeveloped city areas: the public center on Metallurgists square and the territory between Komsomolskaya street and Dolgoye lake. It was planned to build a House of Soviets, a Pioneers Palace, a new theater, a hotel for foreign ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first date in the history of Kayerkan refers to the spring of 1940. At that time, preparations were underway for the Norilsk-Dudinka broad gauge railway construction. And near the Kayerkan station, a prospectors’ hand-drilled well unearthed high-quality coal. That discovery cannot be called ...

ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Norilsk was developing faster than the planned, and the housing was not enough. In the mid-1980s, Norilsk reached a maximum number of 266.8 thousand people, we never got to 300 thousand - this is a myth. But in 1971, they thought of 200 thousand inhabitants. ...