History spot
Smallest Norilsk street named after builder Leonid Anisimov
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the early 1950s, the first and only houses of Lomonosov street were erected near Pushkin square: No. 3 and No. 5. After crossing Kirov street, the small street stumbled into the two-story buildings of the 17th quarter and ended there. But in the 1970s, ...
When Norilsk became city, over 80 thousand people lived in it
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Prior to getting the city status, since 1939, it was considered a working settlement of the Dudinka district of the Taimyr National District of the Krasnoyarsk region, that is, it was legally subordinate to Dudinka. After the RSFSR Supreme Soviet Presidium Decree was issued, Norilsk ...
Norilsk snow fences inventor was called Father Snow Blower
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1937, Potapov was arrested, including for his connection with the disgraced marshal, and sentenced to ten years of forced labor camps. He came to Norilsk in 1939, after Solovki. At first he did common work but in 1940, Potapov was instructed to organize ...
Norilsk street and rare mineral named after Vladimir Kotulsky
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The world-famous luminary of science lived a hard life. In 1918, Kotulsky became vice director of the Geological Committee, which operated in Siberia under the Kolchak government, led the exploration of the Baikal region, Altai, and Kazakhstan. In 1930, he was arrested for ‘organizing the ...
Zavenyagin street was testing ground for city planning innovations
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. According to the official version, voiced by Vitold Nepokoichitsky, the chief architect of the Norilsk project, the idea of quarters with a completely closed contour, which plays the role of a wind and snow barrier, was embodied in its development. Communication with the outside world ...
Nadezhda’s real birthday was ten years earlier than official one
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. However, the Copper and Nickel plants could not keep up with the ore base, even taking into account their expansion and modernization. A completely new large factory was to be built. On January 7, 1968, the USSR Council of Ministers chairman, the Politburo member Alexey ...
Norilsk construction began with several two-story buildings
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Those were eight two-story houses, in the area of the future Pionerskaya (Bogdan Hmelnitsky street’s former name) and Sevastopolskaya. Geographically, they were located between the industrial institute and the building of school No. 4 (later the gymnasium, which was recently closed), but neither one nor ...
Previously City day celebrated in Norilsk in June
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The decree, issued under the Top Secret heading, stated that the combine with a design capacity of ten thousand tons of nickel per year should be launched in 1938. The construction was recognized as a shock one and transferred from the jurisdiction of the ...
Norilsk met Great Patriotic War with vacations cancellation and dispatches to fighting line
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At that time, the Small Metallurgical Plant, the Mechanical Plant, the Sintering and Experimental Concentration Plants, three coal and three ore galleries, a chemical laboratory, the Dudinka-Norilsk-Valek railway, and an airport were operating. Here is how the Norilsk chronicler Trofim Garmash described the first day ...