History spot
Canadian prime minister was first foreign state head to visit Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In addition to them, the Canadian delegation included 35 more people: members of the Canadian parliament, deputy ministers of industry and trade and foreign affairs, secretariat employees, security officers, correspondents and photographers of leading Canadian publications. For the first time, the city met the head ...
In 1940s horse-drawn street patrols used in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. True, polar policemen were mentioned much earlier. Back in 1931, the management of the Norilsk mine under construction announced the recruitment of employees into the ranks of the non-departmental police. In addition to wages, the police were provided with free utilities: a hostel, heating, ...
In 1994 Norilsk resident Vasily Ryzhkov conquered North Pole on skis
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The group consisted of eight travelers: Tomsk citizens Ivan Yalin, Valery Tayakin, Boris Malyshev, Viktor Russky, Ivan Kuzhelivsky, Viktor Sharnin, Muscovite Vladimir Chukov and Norilsk resident Vasily Ryzhkov. For the first time in world practice, the pole was conquered by skiers traveling in a completely ...
April 29, 1942 used to be Norilsk combine birthday
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The head of the electrolytic department, Ivan Iyevlev, pulled out the first nickel cathode from the bath, which metallurgists cut into plates as a keepsake. Iyevlev then handed over the piece he got to the city museum. This is how the metallurgists themselves recalled that ...
Until 1956 Norilsk main labor force were prisoners
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This was the final turning point in the fate of the city, which began in 1953, when the Norilsk mining and metallurgical combine was transferred from the jurisdiction of the Internal Affairs Ministry to the Metallurgical Industry Ministry. In the same 1956, on September 1, ...
Norilsk first streets had other names
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It is interesting that of the five streets - Sevastopolskaya, Monchegorskaya, Pionerskaya, Yuzhnaya and Vostochnaya lines - only Sevastopolskaya retained its original name. The rest are also well known to us now, but under different names. Pionerskaya street was called Bohdan Hmelnitsky street, because ...
Steel plant had to be built near Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. We have forgotten that many years ago the Imangdinskoye deposit was considered Norilsk-3, and geologists are still confident that it is underexplored and, possibly, will be on a par with the ore-bearing intrusions of Norilsk and Talnah. Geologists Speit and Komarov found signs of ...
Norilsk medical school began with twelve desks and skeleton
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first teachers also moved from Minusinsk. On September 1, 190 first students came to the lecture: 130 future paramedics and 60 nurses. Not everyone made it to the final year in 1960. On July 4, the first graduation was celebrated: 132 diplomas, 12 ...
‘Black blizzard’ word combination appeared in Norilsk in 1957
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The black blizzard, which is still so memorable to the Norilsk people, broke out in January 1957. Cyclones one after another overcame the city for several days. The most ferocious storm fell on January 15-16. The city newspaper called it a hurricane, and described ...