History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Artists brought drawings of ladles, cranes, pipes and other industrial romance, but that did not reflect the Norilsk originality. And in 1972, they held another competition for the coat of arms best design. In total, about 200 works were submitted for it, and the competition ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1988, the construction of the microdistrict began, which was called Norilsk-State Farm in the documents. That year, the Zapolyarnaya Pravda local newspaper turned to readers: “Give a name to the street!” The Norilsk people suggested the names Sovhoznaya, Teplichnaya, 1st Theater, or in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. After graduating from the institute, he began working as a smelter at the Nickel plant. Soon, the young engineer became a senior foreman, and then the Nickel plant smelting shop electrothermal department head. Later, there was Nadezhda metallurgical plant, Nickel plant again - as ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The main events of 1967 were the blocking of the Hantayka channel and the the designing of the Messoyaha-Norilsk gas pipeline. Messoyaha was the first field, the world’s northernmost gas pipeline construction zero mark. The Messoyaha’s first well gave a fountain on March 4, 1967. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In March, a large group of young people joined the Norilsk-Talnah high-voltage line construction. It was called the life artery: without electricity, the first mine construction was impossible. The youth did not fail - by August the line was built. At the end of 1962, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first deputy people's commissar of heavy industry was approved as the Norilsk nickel combine construction head in 1938, and already in 1941 Zavenyagin left Norilsk, becoming deputy people's commissar of internal affairs of the USSR. Nevertheless, those three years have remained in Norilsk ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Here is what the main and first Norilsk resident Nikolay Urvantsev wrote about the gastronomic features of the Arctic: “We have a peculiar food, you have to get used to it. The bread, of course, is frozen, as hard as a stone. Even the ax ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. He worked as a smelter at the Copper plant, and as a foreman at the Nickel plant. Since 1971, he was the Copper plant smelting shop head. Then he became the plant’s deputy chief engineer for production. Later he headed the Copper plant, and ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the same year, the Norilsk combine was transferred from the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Metallurgical Industry Ministry. At the same time, the vast majority of Norilsk residents were prisoners. And yet every innovation made Norilsk a little more ...