History spot
Street, square and icebreaker in Norilsk named after Zavenyagin
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The total power of the ship's engines is 6.5 thousand horsepower. Its minimum draft is 2.5 meters, which allows it to move confidently in shallow water. Now the ship belongs to the Nornickel Polar Transportation Branch. The icebreaker’s main task is the processing of berths ...
From nail to electric motor: who provides Nornickel with everything?
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the end of the Great Patriotic War, the need for the combine under construction regular supply with everything necessary was great. In order to provide the isolated city with everything necessary for nine months in advance in a short navigation period, it was necessary ...
Norilsk youngest streets turn 30
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Thus, Yugoslavskaya, Ozernaya, Valkovskaya and Brusnichnaya streets appeared on the northern city’s map. Those names were hastily given: the postal numbering of the buildings was necessary. The new district housing office’s head asked the Norilsk new administration deputy head, architect Shikhov, to name Oganer streets. Arcticheskaya ...
School Years ensemble was Norilsk brand
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The ensemble founders were the choreographer Tamara Mihnevich and musical director and choirmaster during the ensemble's life first 15 years Anatoly Kolovsky. Tamara, a young girl who came to the North from Grozny, headed the dance group and performed herself. At that time the Combine’s ...
Norilsk could produce its own mineral water even 70 years ago
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Back in 1949, hydrogeologist Vladimir Derpgolts submitted a memorandum to the Norilsk combine authorities with such a title On the Resort Potential of the Norilsk Region. In it, he wrote about the healing value of mineral water, which literally flowed under the Norilsk people’s ...
USSR Ministers Council chairman Alexey Kosygin visited Norilsk twice
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Kosygin in 1968 formulated new vectors for the combine’s development and the city life. At the city-wide meeting, the prime minister spoke about the prospects for Norilsk: the metal production increase, the energy and the ore base development. It is believed that the Messoyaha gas ...
Mayak mine ore was first cargo on Talnah railway
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. “The tundra near the Zarya sanatorium (behind the current Laureate street) was filled with construction noise”, the city newspaper Zapolyarnaya Pravda wrote about that event. “Jackhammers bite into the permafrost, bulldozers push back the snowy hills. One by one, dump trucks come and go ...
Yury Smolov was Norilsk mayor for longest time
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It is impossible to list what was built during that period. But Smolov paid special attention to the most difficult city problem - housing construction, landscaping, housing and communal services because Smolov started as a senior mechanic in the mechanized snow control workshop, since ...
Mikhailichenko street named after killed policeman
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1974, construction of two houses - No. 6 and No. 8 - of a new, still unnamed passage, which connected Begichev street with Hantayskaya Street, was underway in Norilsk. At first, it was called Severny, after its location on the Norilsk map. But ...