History spot
Norilsk first swimming pool worked 17 hours a day
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the northernmost basin, Norilsk residents and visitors went on excursions. Tourists were met by the basin first director Iskander Fayzullin. He took them around the balcony, the technical rooms and told them that the bathtub was designed for a million liters of water, ...
In 1980s the Happiness salon worked for Norilsk newlyweds
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On the eve of International Women's Day, March 7, 1980, on Talnahskaya street, 52, the city salon for the newlyweds Happiness was solemnly opened. There, the couples were helped to prepare for the celebration. Given the shortage of those years, it was very relevant. In ...
In 2000 Budargin’s era began in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk city council decided to schedule the election of the local self-government head for September 10, and Budargin was appointed to temporarily fill the post during the summer period. By that time, he had a great track record: in 1990 he was the secretary ...
Urvantsev’s Embankment was once just Embankment
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. And it was called so because the fronts of its first houses - No. 70, 102, 98, 100, 80 - looked at the Shchuchya river. But this did not make it a full-fledged Embankment, and in 1966 the city executive committee “in connection with ...
Hrushchev house on Begichev street built in 12 days
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. By that time, there - on the northern outskirts of the city - active development began with typical Hrushchev era houses. That area of Norilsk was at first a continuation of Talnahskaya street: they both were called Vostochnaya line, or Vostochnaya street. Construction on Begichev ...
Kavkaz restaurant had Caucasian and Scandinavian citizenship
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The restaurant’s name – Kavkaz (Caucasus) – did not appear by chance: the southern cuisine was accomplished by the interior in the national style. As an element of Caucasian life - a handmade felt carpet and gray felt panels, a multi-colored stained-glass window depicting ...
First Norilsk geologist killed in robbery
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Leningrad Mining Institute graduate first came to Norilsk in May 1925 with the fourth Norilsk expedition part led by Pavel Alliluyev. Here, together with Nikolay Urvantsev, he explored mount Rudnaya. Then Vladimir Domarev led the exploration of non-ferrous metal deposits in Hakassia and the ...
Talnah began with tents and wooden houses
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Its very first inhabitants - 15 drillers - settled in five mobile houses and two tents in the summer 1960. By the spring 1962, 400 people lived in the Geologists settlement at the Harayelah mountains foot. In April, the first builders came: their main aims ...
Norilsk Gastronom was region’s first large grocery store
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. By the Norilsktorg department head’s order, the grocery store worked 12 hours a day - from noon to midnight. The total area of that new store was 3169 square meters. Every day it served 20 thousand customers. Gastronome No. 1 was Norilsk's central grocery store and ...