History spot
Children’s shops were Norilsk kids’ attractions
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Detsky Mir (Children's World) was located first in the left wing of the central department store, which had not yet been named Talnah at that time. And a couple of years later, Detsky Mir moved into its own premises in a newly built building ...
Vysotsky CLC began with Talnah cinema
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The new cinema was designed for 400 seats, and it still remains the only one in the area. But films were shown to Talnah residents even before its opening: in the club of the Geologists village, in the Youth club, in schools’ assembly halls. The ...
In January 1954 Lenin monument appeared in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Now this date does not tell us anything. But on that day, everyone knew: it was 30 years since the death of the revolution leader. The reinforced concrete sculpture was a copy of Sergey Merkurov’s work. The original one, 37 meters high and weighing 450 ...
Norilsk concentrating plant was Stalin’s birthday gift
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In November 1948, the first train arrived at the factory with the first ore from the Ugolny Ruchey open-pit mine. On November 5, the concentrators tested the equipment. The BCP entered service on December 21, 1948 - as a gift for Stalin’s birthday. At that ...
Gymnastics was first sport in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Classes took place in the school gym (there was only one school at that time - in a wooden building not far from the Zero Point), up to 120 people came to trainings. In 1944, the former boiler house building was given to the athletes. ...
On New Year’s Eve 1941 Nickel plant pipe built
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first brick factory chimney was built 140 meters high. And at that time it was considered the highest one in Europe. 2.5 million bricks were used, locally made at the Norilsk brick factory. Three thousand cubic meters of concrete were laid in the foundation. The ...
Youngest Norilsk district – Oganer
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first passengers were the Oganer builders. At first, there were only seven trips per day, but when new buildings began to populate, the number of buses also increased. The first seven residential Oganer buildings and the necessary infrastructure (a heating substation, engineering networks and ...
On 31 December 1986 new Norilsk drama theater building put into operation
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The construction was constantly forced, but constantly it was not in time. At first, the drama theatre opening was planned for the golden Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine anniversary in 1985, then on November 7, 1986. The last to appear were metal letters on ...
In December 1953 Zapolyarnaya Pravda newspaper first issue published
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was not the eldest in the Norilsk press family; its predecessors were the Norilstroyevets newspaper, the Stalinets party press, the Za Metal newspaper, the Metal Front and Metal to the Motherland bulletins. Journalism in Norilsk was very specific at that time. It was impossible ...