History spot
Sevastopolskaya street was Norilsk cultural broadway
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This house was originally designed as an ordinary residential two-story building, but due to the lack of cultural centers, it was converted into a cinema hall. In 1953, the theater stage, which was located in the Old Town, sank. And the polar temple of ...
From Norilsk to Krasnoyarsk planes used to fly for six hours
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Before that, aircraft landed on water or on ice: on Dolgoye lake, Rybnaya and Norilskaya rivers. For construction, Aerodromstroy was created, where 500 prisoners were sent to permanent work. In July 1946, the Nadezhda runway was accepted for temporary operation: the airfield was under construction ...
In 1940s only 36 telephone points worked in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The telephone exchange in the first decades was manual, that is, it worked through the switchboard, where the telephone operators worked. In the early 1950s, the equipment for the first automatic station was brought to Norilsk - it was akin to a flight to Mars ...
Norilsk collector corresponded with Belgian queen
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Throughout his life, Rehlov kept in touch with the Dresden Art Gallery, the Louvre, the Tate Gallery, the Roman National Gallery and other museums around the world, who sent him parcels with new reproductions. He even wrote to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, who sent ...
Local pasta was special dish in Norilsk restaurants
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Of course, the loaves baked in 1945 were not the very first bread in Norilsk. Before that, small bakeries operated at the camp departments, in the villages - Medvezhka, Zapadny, 80th quarter, Kayerkan. But there was not enough bread for everyone. As eyewitnesses recalled, before ...
First steam locomotive went across Norilsk in 1936
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The prospecting and design of this section, only 14 kilometers long, as well as the future Dudinka-Norilsk railway, was carried out by Moscow's Promtransproekt institute. The first narrow-gauge railway was built by the prisoners of the Valyok camp department. Valyok was considered as the main ...
First Norilsk stores had no names
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. However, from the mid-1960s, Norilsk stores began to receive their own names. For example, in 1961 in the center of Leninsky prospect under construction, at house No. 28, a grocery store No. 31 was opened. Signs Food and Bakery appeared above its entrance group ...
80 million cubic meters of snow fall in Norilsk during winter
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Snow trenches were 15–20 meters high. The city residents tried to cover them with wood to get covered galleries, but that did not help either. Colossal funds were spent on cleaning from drifts. During the winter, emergency work was carried out 15–17 times. In January 1937, ...
Norilsk had its own travel and excursion bureau
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk bureau consisted of two departments: the travel department, which dealt with trips to other cities of the Soviet Union, and the excursion department, which took citizens and guests to inspect Norilsk and the environs. The big sightseeing bus tour told about Norilsk yesterday, ...