History spot
Gornyak restaurant used to be ordinary canteen
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Here it was important not only to extract the northern subsoil riches, but also to provide the miners with a high level of service. In the early 1970s, Norilsk ranked first in the Krasnoyarsk region and one of the first places in the entire ...
Norilsk nickel first sample was pocket size
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1938, Avraamy Zavenyagin, the new head of the Norilsk combine, took office. He was sure it was possible to carry out a full cycle of nickel smelting in Norilsk. To prove that he had to bring to Moscow a tangible result of the ...
Norilsk got its own coat of arms in the 1970s
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In June of 1972, at a meeting of the executive committee of the city council, the sketch was approved: “The Norilsk coat of arms is a polar bear against the background of a traditional shield holding a key above its head. The key pattern consists ...
Kravets street in Talnah first had name Lesnaya
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. City planners decided to push Talnashka in this place, straightening its many bends. The section of the channel along the entire Kravets street was changed. The street was built among the first ones, and therefore the first kindergarten and the first school in Talnah - ...
Evgeny Tyomin called Norilsk boxing patriarch
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. He is called the Norilsk boxing founder. Although the box club in Norilsk existed long before his arrival, but the coaches often changed, and the competitions were held irregularly. In the late 1960s, hundreds of boys wanted to attend the classes. Every week, Tyomin peeled ...
Norilsk residents designed their city themselves
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This was one of the first orders of the combine new head Avraamy Zavenyagin: “Despite the duration of the design work at the Norilsk combine, the state of design does not allow the construction of main workshops... I order: all design, as well as topographic ...
Important objects built for important state dates
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. And Norilsk was no exception. In different years, the commissioning of a variety of objects was planned for that day. So, on April 22, 1952, the first buyers entered the central department store on Gvardeiskaya square. It was still nameless, it was named Talnah only ...
Talnahskaya street was once called Eastern Line
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The quarters number 17, 22 and 28, memorable to Norilsk residents with cozy two-story houses with water conduits, looked at the street from the city side. On the other side there were the former barracks of the Gorlag 6th women's camp department and the ...
First Norilsk indoor skating rinks were homemade
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Norilsk was no exception, although at first the townspeople skated in the most difficult conditions - on open ice. In the 1940s, the Norilsk people skated on the ice the lakes in the Old City, and later - at the Dynamo stadium. In 1945, the ...