History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Trade pavilions were placed on Komsomolskaya square “to bring the goods closer to the buyers” as a slogan in the summer of 1960 said. These were light, open pavilions. There were signs above each: Fabrics, Knitwear, Dishes, Shoes and so on. In one pavilion, parents ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The palace building was originally planned to be made lower, only three floors, but wider - to occupy almost the entire square space. Here is how Vitold Nepokoichitsky, who was the chief architect of Norilsk for three decades, wrote about this: “The initial project developed by ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. One of the oldest cultural institutions - Rodina - was opened in 1953, but it is not known in spring or autumn. Rodina can be considered the first real cinema, located in a specially designed room. It was the second cultural institution built in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Of the 15 routes that existed at that time, only three could be called intracity routes - they connected Gorstroy (new part of the town) with the Old Town. The rest connected remote points of the industrial site with even more remote settlements. These routes ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. What was it made up of? Norilsk childhood is: • when all the children in the yard know each other and you will never have such a strong and friendly company; • days off at school due to the bad weather conditions expected with bated breath: ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the future, new Norilsk residents voluntarily or involuntarily came to the village and each brought with him a piece of household life. In the 1930s and 1940s, it was not easy for the Norilsk people to settle down in their houses, or rather barracks. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The team consisted of only three people, so they had to work 16-18 hours a day. At the age of 17, he went skiing to Igarka, to the military enlistment office, asking to go to the front. He was not taken, although he threatened ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. One of the few Norilsk citizens who received the Hero of Socialist Labor star for their work in metallurgy and the Central Committee of the CPSU member, a delegate of three congresses and one of the few metallurgists who became an honorary citizen of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. But this did not make it a full-fledged embankment, and the city executive committee ‘in connection with the new microdistricts’ construction’ assigned the street a new name Nansena in 1966. Now only rare old-timers remember that the street changed its first houses’ numbering according to ...