History spot
Norilsk Combine’s supply system’s founder was Vasily Ksintaris
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Vasily Ksintaris had a difficult time in the Norilsk supply chain’s formation: the late 1940s - early 1950s. There were no normal warehouses and loading equipment. Barges with cargoes often froze into the Yenisei, and every nail that came to Norilsk became ‘golden’. Ksintaris' job ...
He went from convict to Norilsk Combine’s deputy director
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Once he had to carry the proposed operation’s plan to its destination. On the way, he spent the night in a strange house. When the envelope was delivered, it contained old newspapers instead of a secret plan. The soldier was accused of treason. Many years ...
Norilsk kindergartens located on residential buildings’ first floors
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Urban planners in this way ‘dragged’ cultural and consumer services at the housing expense. That is why almost all the first kindergartens were built-in. A few years later it turned out that they had an increased incidence: the children had nowhere to go out, there ...
You must build us plant from start to finish
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The scholarship was not enough: he collected cloudberries for sale outside Sevastopolskaya street, at a ruble per glass. Albert Voronov went to work in the Nickel plant’s chlorine-cobalt workshop after the technical school. He lived in a hostel and had a bed in the corridor: ...
If we can’t go to China, we want to go to Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Victor Kravtsov is the honored geologist of the Russian Federation, Combine’s labor veteran, laureate of the Lenin Prize. He is one of three geologists who discovered signs of the future Talnah deposit at the foot of Mount Otdelnaya. Norilsk could cease to exist without ...
Talnah sinkers were fastest in Siberia and Far East
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The young Kharkov resident Yevgeny Astashin arrived in Norilsk in 1956 with slogan: Our surname begins with A, which means we must always be the first. He started as a worker at the Tsentralnaya (Eng.: Central) mine, became a foreman at the Zapolyarny (Eng.: Polar) mine ...
What street do four houses and one palace stand in row?
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. But the correct answer meant Komsomolskaya street with the House of Communications, the House of Press, the House of Life, the House of Trade and the Palace of Justice. The House of Communications and the House of Press were the first to appear on Komsomolskaya ...
Boris Kolesnikov headed Norilsk Combine for 15 years
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Four years later he went to work at the Copper plant as a shift foreman and quickly rose to the plant’s senior manager of the. In 1967 Kolesnikov became the Nickel plant’s head, then he became the Combine’s chief engineer. In 1973 Boris Kolesnikov ...
Ivan Iyevlev was first to touch Norilsk nickel
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. After graduating from the university in 1940, Iyevlev was sent to the Severonickel (Eng.: North nickel) plant in Monchegorsk to launch and master the electrolytic nickel’s industrial production. Severonickel was evacuated in the Second World War’s beginning, and Ivan Iyevlev came to Norilsk with ...