History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. After the war start, the supply of the settlement - forced labor camp dropped sharply: Norilsk experienced a deficit of everything – food, fuel, spare parts and building materials. The housing shortage was also acute. What cultural centers could be there?! And really – what? ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Even the first winterers noted that during the long dark winter without a change of activity and impressions, a person is attacked by polar melancholy with insomnia and apathy. And in this situation, cinema became the most important of the arts. In the early 1930s, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Central Committee of the CPSU decided: “…Starting in 1958, in residential buildings being built both in cities and in rural areas, provide for economical, well-appointed apartments for single-family occupancy. Construction is to be carried out according to standard designs”. This decision abolished the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. “Man, like no other living creature, loves to create additional difficulties for himself. This is precisely what explains the desire to have his own car”. This is a quote from the legendary Soviet film Beware of the Car! And, perhaps, in our Arctic region ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. When planning the city, greening was supposed to be not only on dividing lawns, but also inside the blocks, between houses and along driveways and passages. The first lawns were laid out in the mid-1940s in the center of Sevastopolskaya street. It all started with ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. From the time Norilsk received city status until the mid-1960s, all city government structures were located in another building – on Sevastopolskaya street, 7. It was Sevastopolskaya that was both the official and cultural heart of Norilsk. And on Leninsky prospect, between one of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This area of ​​Norilsk was built in the early 1960s, when the construction industry switched from Stalin-era buildings to standard Hrushchev-era buildings. In addition, by that time, practice had shown that long straight streets did not protect the city from snow drifts, as expected. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The construction of the first Hrushchev-era apartment buildings began in its courtyards. And it was there that city planners dreamed of a completely new type of housing for northerners: a courtyard, a street, and even a city under a dome. Zavenyagin street was designed ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This street was built in the second half of the 1950s, when the trend towards simplification in construction had already begun. And the houses on Sovetskaya look much more modest than the first Stalin buildings. In this photo from the mid-1950s, house No. 8 is ...