History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Vertical planning earthworks, railway tracks, warehouse and mechanical repair workshop’s construction were carried out in 1944. At that time the plant was the largest and the most modern one in the Arctic. It was believed that it would be able to process and enrich all ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The scientist took part in organizing the first expeditions of Alliluev and Urvantsev to study the Norilsk deposits. Fedorovsky founded and headed the All-Union Institute of Mineral Raw Materials. Despite the fact that Nikolay Fedorovsky had been a member of the revolutionary movement since 1902 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1866 Fyodor Schmidt visited the Norilsk mountains at the invitation of the Sotnikov brothers. He was the first to inspect the local deposits. Subsequently, the mountain explored by him with rich reserves of coal was called Schmidtiha. In 1893, Norilsk coal mining began for ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was rather a scientific exposition - not for visitors, but for geologists: a kind of chronology of their discoveries, not on paper, but in stone. Two years later, in 1941, another, similar order was issued to create a museum on the basis of the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. They had to pitch the first tents, start building the first barracks, roll out a snowy airfield for the An-2 aircraft. When the spring ‘ate’ that first runway, building materials were dropped from the air, ‘bombarding’ the bare shores with them. So, from scratch, from ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the year of its birth - 1963 - all the settlers lived in a tent city and the first wintering began with almost no electricity. According to the first snow mountaineers’ recollections, the first winter was especially difficult - tents, potbelly stoves, the temperature ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was an attempt to provide citizens in the Arctic with the same level of comfort as in the mainland. And one of the signs of such an oasis among the snows was to be the first pool in the world's Arctic. 15 years of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At that time, about 25 and 50 thousand people lived in Kayerkan and Talnah, respectively. A year later, the city of Kayerkan surpassed the district center Dudinka in terms of population. In 1982, a supermarket, a canteen for 300 people, a polyclinic, a gym, an ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The department was supposed to manage the power plant operation - two years before that, in July 1936, a central power station (CPS-1) had been launched in Norilsk from five locomobiles with a capacity of 250 kW. In addition, the department was in charge of ...