History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. One of its earliest mentions can be found in the project of the future hospital campus, drawn up in 1952. It listed the lines limiting the future 20th block: Pionerskaya (B. Hmelnitsky street), Monchegorskaya (Kirov street), as well as two nameless streets “limiting the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. According to the first plans for the development of Norilsk, Lomonosov street was supposed to open onto Gvardeyskaya square, which was initially planned to be built square, not round. Together with Lomonosov street, four more streets were supposed to converge here: Stalinsky prospekt, Ordzhonikidze ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Muslim mosque became the third ‘house of God’ in the city of Norilsk. The registration of the religious association of Norilsk Muslims took place in October 1992. At the end of 1993, construction of the Norilsk mosque, the northernmost one in the world, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This settlement, or wintering, as it was also called, was located on the spout of the Rybnaya and Norilsk rivers and was the forerunner of modern Norilsk. There, for the “beyond-tundra peasants and foreigners”, the chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was built. When ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Now the railway office’s headquarters is located there, but when it was built, they planned that express trains from other cities would arrive here. “The significance of this road is the revitalization of the half-dead northern region”. This is how Alexander Sotnikov, one of the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A children’s music studio appeared back in 1948, and in 1955 a music school opened in a two-story building on Kirov street. At the same time, a specialized building’s construction began. The architect of the project was a graduate of the Riga university, a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. When Talnah was built, housing was, of course, in the foreground. Indeed, in the 1960s and even 1970s, Talnah residents, while waiting their turn for a comfortable apartment, lived in tiny mobile houses, barracks and even tents. Therefore, in Talnah, as well as in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. We’ll find out how its construction went and see what important objects for Talnah residents look like now. The first Talnah inhabitants - geologists and builders - lived in tents and small mobile houses. Construction of the permanent settlement began in the spring of 1963. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first real ice arena in the region was shown to foreigners, stages of the national hockey championship were held there, and the best figure skaters performed on the Norilsk ice. Back in 1964, the Norilsk combine director Vladimir Dolgih instructed the Norilsk design office ...