History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1939, the construction of the Norilsk Combined Heat and Power plant began. Before, there was a temporary power plant in the village: in the early 1940s, WPS-2 operated in an outrageous mode, but produced only 7 300 kilowatts - catastrophically little for expanding ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Kim was born near Vladivostok, studied at the Leningrad Polytechnic University as a hydraulic engineer. He worked as a designer at Nizhne-Volgoproekt, then at the hydraulic engineering laboratory of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering. In 1936, Mikhail Kima was convicted under a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The airport under construction at that time did not even have the minimum necessary facilities for normal operation and passenger service. From the text of the city executive committee decision: “To oblige the head of the airport Alykel comrade Blagodyr to ensure the airfield ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The years of Kolesnikov's management of the combine are called the golden era. Under him, the Talnah concentrating plant and the Kureyskaya hydroelectric power station were launched, the combine’s transition to gas was completed, and the Octyabrsky and Taimyrsky mines were put into operation. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At that time, in addition to the three main dates - the Combine's birthday, City Day and Metallurgist's Day - one more occasion was added: the First Ore Festival. From the Mayak mine, cars drove along the new Norilsk-Talnah highway. True, they crossed Norilskaya river ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. True, at first they wanted to name the passage after the cosmonaut Gagarin or the geologist Maslov. The very first of the hotel-type houses - Molodezhny proezd, 1 - was also built in 1970 and was called the House of the newlyweds. Because small, but ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This steam locomotives collection began to be created in the summer of 1992, when a narrow-gauge Gr-274 steam locomotive was installed at the bridge over the Ambarnaya river on the Railwayman Day in memory of the first and most difficult years of the Norilsk ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In June 1949, the Stalinets newspaper told: “In Gorstroy (new part of the Norilsk town. - editor), behind house No. 47 (now - 50 Years of October street, 1. - aditor), they started to build a park named after the Komsomol 30th anniversary. Paths, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The technical armament of small repair and mechanical workshops had only three lathes, one of which half protruded into the street. July 25, 1941 - the date of foundation of the Mechanical Plant. On this day, the mechanical repair, foundry and forging and boiler shops ...