History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Quarter No. 17, 22 and 28 were located along Kirova street and occupied a vast space from the fire station, opposite the stadium and up to Pavlova Street. These buildings had their own internal numbering: quarter No. 22, building No. 11. But the Norilsk ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1936 he graduated from the North Caucasian Institute of Non-ferrous Metals and worked in senior positions at Balkhash and Dzhezkazgan combines. He came to the northern city as the Combines’s construction and its head Avraamy Zavenyagin’s supervisor in 1940. Zavenyagin offered a competent engineer ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. 15-year-old Mikhail Godlevsky studied at school and worked: loader in the port, draughtsman, technician in geodetic parties on the rivers Lena, Aldan, Angara and Mana. Godlevsky entered the Leningrad University’s Physics and Mathematics department in 1922, but he was expelled ‘for origin’ in 1926. In ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It should have consisted of club and theater buildings with a 1,000-seat auditorium, a 300-seat cinema and a restaurant-type buffet. The club building was supposed to stand at the confluence of Pushkin street and Gvardeiskaya square. It was planned to place a library, lecture ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1930 Vorontsov was sent to Norilsk as the geological exploration expedition’s head by the Tsvetmetzoloto head office. In 1935-1938 Alexander Vorontsov was the chief Norilskstroy’s engineer, then he headed the plant’s geological service until 1945. Vorontsov was one of the first seven ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Its author was Yevgeny Ryabchikov - the former Komsomolskaya Pravda’s journalist who served prison sentence for "counter-revolutionary activities" and came to Norilsk in 1943 at the Abraham Zavenyagin’s invitation. He was one of the first Norilsk newspaper For Metal and the bulletins Metal ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. He started as a mechanic at the Zapolyarny mine’s underground section. An active guy was noticed in the Komsomol city committee: Aristov became its second, and then its first secretary. In 1969, he returned to production and was offered the position of the mining department ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Moscow civil time was introduced in the Norilskstroy management office and its divisions. Exactly at midnight, the clock hands moved four hours back. Order No. 86 for the Norilsk forced labor camp stated the following: “From January 1, 1936, in the camp office and all divisions ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1958, the plant No. 26, as a structural production unit, became the metallurgical shop of the Copper plant. MS-1 was built to replace the sludge plant, located at the opposite end of the city, on the industrial site of the Nickel plant. In 1966, ...