History spot
Dudinka wasn’t considered as main Norilsk Combine’s port
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Fateful decisions for Dudinka and the port were made earlier, in the first decades of the 20th century. Dudinka was a small village lost in the Arctic at that time, and nothing foreshadowed big changes. The geologist Nikolai Urvantsev described it: “When I arrived in Dudinka ...
He dreamed of film career, but became Norilsk Combine’s chief engineer
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Terpogosov successfully passed the exams at the State Institute of Cinematography in 1932, but he was not enrolled due to the lack of places in the hostel for nonresident students. He had to return to his native Ordzhonikidze and enter the newly opened mining ...
Port director was one of first Norilsk Combine’s elected managers
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. He had to fight a lot in his childhood. There were only three Korean families in post-war Dudinka and, unlike Norilsk, there was no diaspora. Khan did not think much about his nationality at that time, but teasing touched him and he had to ...
Grigory and Marfa Saprykin lived in Norilsk for over 60 years
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Shift driller, senior driller, the drilling site’s head, the drilling workshop’s head, the geological exploration party’s head: Saprykin participated in all major geological exploration works in Norilsk, and supervised many. Grigory Saprykin led drilling operations at the port construction in Dudinka, carried out drinking water ...
Laureatov street in Norilsk stands on thawed soil
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk people offered to name it after fellow countrymen: the geologist Urvantsev, the Norilskstroy’s first leaders Matveev and Panyukov, the pilot Smirnov, the surgeon Kuznetsov, the geologist Maslov, the deceased gasman Bagaev. Among others, there was a variant to name the street in ...
Komsomolskaya street was originally called Komsomolskaya line
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Only in the early 1950s it became Komsomolskaya, and not a street, but a line, by analogy with the city’s Southern and Eastern lines. Buildings here at first were built only from the even side. School No. 1 was one of the first buildings on ...
Norilsk residents signed up for cars in Olimpiets store
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The entrance to the city from Nansena street to the intersection of Komsomolskaya and Ordzhonikidze streets received its name Krasnoyarskaya street on September 23, 1966. Moskovskaya and Leningradskaya streets already were in Norilsk by that time, the region’s capital should also be respected. Krasnoyarskaya Street, ...
Boris Rozin headed Norilsk Combine’s legal department for 32 years
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. He was a candidate of legal sciences, the author of scientific articles on the workers’ labor’s legal regulation in the Far North. Rozin was an indisputable authority in legislation terms related to the Far North. The instruction on the procedure for providing social guarantees and ...
Talnahskaya is longest Norilsk street: almost three kilometers
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1947, the Norilsk village council of deputies’ executive committee gave names to the first Gorstroy (Eng.: City construction) streets in the city’s new part that was just under construction. The Eastern Line was also on this list: the future Talnahskaya street which length ...