History spot
In 1972 Yuzhno-Soleninskoye gas field commissioned
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the exploration process it turned out that Soleninskoe, named after the Solenaya river, consisted of two large deposits. They were named Yuzhno-Soleninsky and Severo-Soleninsky. The Norilsk combine and the city needed more and more gas for development. Therefore, preparations for the development and operation ...
Komsomolskaya and Solnechny streets area had to be public center
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On December 16, 1966, the city authorities decided to call the passage from Komsomolskaya street in the direction of the TV studio - Solnechny. The first houses of the passage - № 1, 3, 5 and 11 - were built even earlier - in ...
Mayak was first Talnah mine
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The government, having considered its materials, also decided to start laying the mine before approving the reserves. On December 3, 1962, the Kaluga administration of the Shahtspetsstroy trust began shaft sinking. The name Mayak was given to the mine at the Norilsk city conference. It ...
Krasnoyarsk region located in Russian Federation center
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The new administrative unit included 52 districts, the Hakass Autonomous District, the Taimyr and Evenk National Districts. According to archaeological data, the first human settlements on the Krasnoyarsk region territory appeared about 100 thousand years ago. The finding (near the Sopochnaya Karga settlement) of the ...
Taimyr National District founded in 1930
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. By a resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee national districts were formed in the places of small peoples of the North settlements. The Taimyr national district included four administrative regions: Avamsky, Dudinsky, Hatangsky and Ust-Yeniseisky. At the beginning of 1932, ...
In December 1967 fires raged in different Norilsk parts
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Once they arose around factories, mines and enterprises under construction. People were settled next to their workplaces, because the transport issue was then still a sore point in Norilsk. Most often, each such village was at first a camp department, and later ...
Lama restaurant was Norilsk youth’s favorite place
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. What a dining room it was! Norilsk, which had become a city only a year before, was resolutely moving away from huts and trailers. Therefore, the interior of the new catering point on the central street was not worse than the Taimyr restaurant, which ...
First Norilsk parades took place at Zero Point
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Now the question of why the Great October Revolution anniversary was celebrated on November 7 may confuse young people, but everything is simple: the dates shifted when the calendar switched to a new style. Popular parades in the country took place on November 7, and ...
Books were in high demand in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk bookseller was founded on November 15, 1951. The book shops were located at 7 Leninsky prospect, where later the Mysl (Thought) political book store operated. Branches of bookstores also worked in more unexpected places: in Detsky Mir, in school № 6, in ...

