History spot

ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Georgy Maslov pointed to the area prospects back in the 1960s. September 2009 is considered the official date of the deposit status recognition, when the materials for calculating reserves were examined by the State Reserves Commission. Today, the Maslovskoye field is part of Nornickel's ...

ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It is noteworthy that Putin began his working visit to the Krasnoyarsk region from Norilsk. The President visited the Octyabrsky mine, and its record-breaking deep mine working at a depth of 1 002 meters and was presented with a mining lamp with the number ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR.  Taimyr and the Arctic became his creative homeland. He traveled with a sketchbook to Dikson, Severnaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land, and many polar stations. When the artist was asked: “Is the northern nature as colorful as you depict it on your canvases?” - he answered: “Having ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Vasily Tkachev was elected mayor of Norilsk, Igor Stepanenko - Kayerkan, Yury Luks - Talnah. On January 7, the city theater also hosted the first ever official inauguration - the ceremony of taking the mayor office. And the main informational background of 1997 was the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Transaero aircraft service level was superior to anything that a Soviet passenger had seen before - from the menu to free blankets and pillows to each passenger in flight. That time in the country is now called the ‘dashing nineties’: wild market, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Most of the new buildings were erected in Talnah (part of Norilsk). In Norilsk itself, infill construction was carried out on the city main avenue. Kayerkan and even Snezhnogorsk grew. Among the new buildings were nine-storey buildings on the Kirov, Laureates, Rudnaya, Baumanskaya, Igarskaya, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1939, there were two canteens with buffets in Norilsk. In 1945, there were already nine canteens, which served two thousand people attached to them per month. In the 1950s, canteens were located in any suitable room: in a mobile house, a barrack, even ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. So, on December 31, the first stage of the Taimyrsky mine was put into operation. Its ore was raised from depths from which no one in the world had mined it at that time. Working conditions at the mine were very difficult: the temperature rises ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The main object of social and cultural life, the new wide-screen cinema was called 60 Years of October. The first supercinema in Taimyr, capable of accommodating 800 spectators, was opened on November 6, 1977. It was built by the whole world: the original sound-absorbing ...