History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first Norilsk buildings, both industrial and residential, fell into disrepair within several years due to the foundations deformation. The construction basic principle was – all large workshops that generate heat should be built on a rocky foundation, even if it was necessary to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Today, the building on Octyabrskaya street is abandoned, but back in 1944, all Norilsk enterprises contributed to its furnishing and equipping: tables and chairs were made at the woodworking plant, blackboards and drawing boards were made at the brick one. But it was clear that ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A copper-nickel deposit in the valley of the Bear Creek was found in 1936 by geologists Alexander Vorontsov and Alexey Rozanov. In 1943, after a fundamental calculation of the deposit reserves, made by the combine’s geological department, it was revealed that the ore body there ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Old photographs show that the Norilsk stores facades were not initially decorated with glass showcases - they were ordinary windows. The first showcase was installed in the Severyanka store in 1964. For example, the catchy interior of the Moscow restaurant Podkova at VDNKh, where the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The photo exhibition of Nikolay Plehanov’s works is dedicated to the 90th birthday of the man who traveled all over Taimyr with a camera. The museum collection contains more than half a thousand the member of the USSR Journalists Union Nikolay Plehanov’s historical photographs ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. “Among Americans, not many have heard of Norilsk”, the newspaper wrote, “but for Russians, Norilsk is a symbol of the triumph of man over the nature of the North. For some time now, this is an industrial center, the largest of its kind, has ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. September 30, 1970, can be called the birthday of the Norilsk skyscrapers. On this day, the state commission accepted both the first nine-story building - at Nansen street, 62, and the first 12-story building - at Krasnoyarskaya street, 1. The twelve-story building at Krasnoyarskaya, 1, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Mainland designers did not believe that in our conditions it was possible to carry out mining operations in an open way. They believed that with the Norilsk snow drifts, the miners would take out 99 percent of the snow and ice and only one ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At that time, all teenagers without exception dreamed of service dogs, and the shepherd was considered the most desirable breed, of course. But there were few thoroughbred dogs in the city: they were expensive, and the mainland breeders did not want to send puppies for ...