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#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On one hand, it significantly simplified the work of builders in difficult wartime conditions, and on the other hand, it complicated the further operation of the buildings. For example, during construction, they allowed deviations from sanitary, fire-prevention and other norms, and to hand over objects ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. ‘In order to prevent cases of freezing of prisoners’, maximum low temperatures werre determined when it was impossible to take prisoners to work outside and all work in the open air was stopped. The Big processing plant construction. 1942 The table contained the following items: a) 40 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For some years, all city power structures had been located in one building - on Sevastopolskaya, 7. The project of the new building - the ‘gray house’, as the Norilsk residents later called it, belonged to the architect Jakob Trushins. This was not his most ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The mainland designers did not believe that in our conditions it was possible to conduct mining operations in an open way. They believed that with the Norilsk drifts, miners would remove 99 percent of the snow and ice and only one percent of the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Prior to that, Norilsk had been listed as a settlement assigned to the Chasovnya nomadic council with the administrative center Chasovnya on the Rybnaya river. Along with the new status, Norilsk also received leading functions: 25 deputies were elected to the village council, a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At that time, the combine was in a difficult situation. During the war years, the richest ores of the Norilsk-1 deposit were actually depleted. Mining of ordinary disseminated ores was in progress, vein ore was running out, profitability was falling. There was a clear choice: ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the same year, the first two residential buildings of the street were built - two blocks of house No. 1. There is a city legend associated with the name: they say, Mira street (means Peace street), connecting Leningradskaya and Moskovskaya streets, was called upon ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Since 2009, the mine has included two subdivisions: the Zapolyarny mine itself and the Medvezhy Ruchey opencast mine attached to it. Both the mine and the open pit develop one rock body related to the Norilsk-1 deposit. The mine has complex specifics: complicated mining ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Work on the first panels began in 1973. By 1976, there were already five of them. The theme of the mosaics corresponded to the name of the street and the mood of Norilsk - the city of the young. The first mosaic panel depicted the ...