History spot
DITR was first culture center in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The house of engineering and technical workers and the best Stahanovetses (best workers named in honor of Alexey Stahanov – most resultative worker in the USSR) - the famous DITR - opened on November 1, 1942. It was built on the main street of ...
Norilsksnab head became Dzhigarhanyan character prototype
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. He arrived in Norilsk in March 1943 as the chief engineer of the Spetsstroy office. Participated in the construction of unique structures: from the dam on Dolgoye lake, which raised the water level in the lake, and the wooden conduit from the Norilskaya river ...
Norilsk sport organized together with Norilsk combine
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. One of the first orders of the Norilskstroy head, Vladimir Matveev, read: “... in order to introduce physical culture and develop shooting sports, organize a department of the Dynamo sports society”. It was the Dynamo time of Norilsk sports. In 1942, the construction of the ...
BOKMO gyms name is abbreviation
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This abbreviation stood for ‘service block of the youth hostel complex’, that is, those gyms were built next to typical nine-story buildings, where young people were massively accommodated. But, for example, in Norilsk this abbreviation was transformed into a proper name and now it ...
Ol-Gul ski base named after lakes
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In those days, there were over 20 tourist bases in the Norilsk vicinity. Some of them worked year-round and even rented skis, but they could not provide full-fledged training there. In the 1970s, Norilsk decided to build a new full-fledged shelter for skiers. In search ...
60 Years of October cinema supposed to be cultural complex element
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was planned to place a whole complex of cultural and sports facilities on the square - a new drama theater, a cinema, a museum, a Pioneer House, a swimming pool. Competitions were announced, projects were proposed, ‘spears were broken’, but none of the options ...
Local beer in Norilsk was very popular
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. There has been an old truthful tale about Norilsk metallurgists who flew to Moscow for a weekend to drink beer. Indeed, they flew. But this does not mean that Norilsk did not have its own beer or its own city pubs. Norilsk is a city ...
Norilsk construction leader became convict
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Vladimir Matveyev - the head of Norilskstroy, who led the construction of the combine and the Norilsk forced labor camp in the most difficult years, from 1935 to 1938. Matveyev went to Taimyr on June 12, 1935, together with him came the first hundred builders ...
In wartime cultural facilities in Norilsk built despite of bans
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. An interesting historical document was signed in Norilsk on October 8, 1942. It was a temporary instruction for the design of industrial enterprises in wartime. On the one hand, it greatly simplified the work of builders, and on the other hand, it complicated further ...