History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Dudinka, a forwarding point was organized, where correspondence and parcels were accumulated. The staff included a freight forwarder who accompanied mail from Norilsk to Dudinka and back, as well as two registrars and the head of the post office. All of them were ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In July 1954, the Norilsk Passenger Motor Transport Office - NPMTO (in the future - the Norilsk Production Association of Passenger Motor Transport, NPAPMT) - appeared in Norilsk. At that time, the problem of passenger traffic in the newborn city sharply exacerbated. The Central Motor ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Many townspeople still remember the yellow barrel on the summer streets of Norilsk, an enamel can with a rattling lid... Norilsk kvass has a long history. The fact that the first cisterns appeared in 1958 does not mean that there was no kvass in Norilsk ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was the ‘admiral’ who once brought order to the Norilsk rivers and lakes. Until the 1970s, there was no state inspection for small boats - an analogue of the traffic police on the water - in Norilsk, and the number of drowned people ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The idea to unite the strongest city footballers into a single team and to play at a more serious level belonged to local enthusiast Dmitry Fedoseyev. In the first eight years of Norilsk's existence, he was a playing coach and team director at the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On July 3, 1936, by a resolution of the Council of People's Committees, the Regulation on the State Automobile Inspection of the Main Directorate of the Workers 'and Peasants' Militia of the USSR NKVD was approved. The task of the traffic police was to combat ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The assortment of the flea market was huge: from blue colorant and satin panties to fresh vegetables and fruits. The grocery rows offered meat, fish, milk, sauerkraut. The city newspaper more than once ‘wandered’ through the bazaar on its pages, criticizing the unsanitary conditions and ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The building was constructed in parts: the main, educational part, was erected by 1958. Work on the concert hall continued until 1959. In the 1960s, it hosted not only concerts, but even meetings of city council deputies. The project of the building was entrusted to the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The collection contained only 600 copies of books brought by civil engineers. But two years later, the library became an independent subdivision with subordination to the combine’s technical department. By Avraamy Zavenyagin’s order, library branches were created on the industrial sites, where for the first ...