History spot
Alexey Loginov headed Norilsk Combine for three years
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. He went to Leningrad in 1922, worked as a loader in the port and as a foundry worker at the Krasny Vyborzhets plant. In 1936, Loginov graduated from the Leningrad Mining Institute’s beneficiation department, worked there as a researcher for three years and participated in ...
Dzerzhinskogo street used to be Teatralny proezd
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A wide front passage turning into the current Theater square was drawn on the plan for the Norilsk first stage construction in 1943. The theater building, judging by the plan, should be placed right in the center of this passage. The Dzerzhinskogo street began to ...
Norilsk Combine’s head went from a boss to a prisoner
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. He had to manage the Combine and camp’s construction in the most difficult years from 1935 to 1938. The responsibility to a superior organization was great. Matveev, his wife and children went to Taimyr on June 12, 1935. The first hundred builders and the Mospromtrans’ ...
Human genome program author was Norillag prisoner
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. First, Alexander Bayev was sent to Solovki, and in 1939 he was transferred to Norilsk. Here he first ended up in the fifth camp department: he worked on earthworks, dug trenches in the permafrost under the plants foundation. Then the camp authorities used him as ...
Zavenyagin’s successor Panyukov did not understand metallurgy at all
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1917 he moved to the People's Commissariat for Food, later became deputy head of the People's Commissariat for Food of the Kyrgyz Republic. In 1928, he received an external diploma from the Moscow Industrial and Economic College, and later completed two courses in ...
School lake in Norilsk officially called City lake
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Once upon a time, there were many small lakes and reservoirs on the current Norilsk development site. To this day, only one of them has survived inside the Norilsk buildings – Gorodskoye (City lake). According to local historian Vyacheslav Blohin, it used to be called ...
Tons of watermelons brought to Norilsk under Boris Kolesnikov
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. He started as a shift foreman at the copper plant, quickly rose to the position of a senior plant manager. Then - director of the nickel plant, its chief engineer, from 1973 to 1988 – the Norilsk combine head. Over those 15 years, the ...
Norilsk сombine young workers trained in vocational school
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was the first educational institution of primary vocational training, which prepared young workers for the Norilsk combine. In 1958, the school prepared the first graduation - 37 overhead and gantry crane operators. At first, the school worked in the building of the Norilsk Industrial Institute ...
His subordinates called him Grandpa
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Danilov was born in the Kovrov city, Ivanovsky Region in 1927. The Danilov family was left without a father early, and thirteen-year-old Leonid had to work. But the boy really wanted to learn more. He entered a vocational school having added a year to ...