History spot
Polar State University began with Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical College
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The history of the Norilsk Industrial Institute, which is now the Polar State University, began in 1944. A new technical school was opened in the Old Town, in a two-story building on Octyabrskaya street. Today, the former alma mater is empty, but at that time ...
In 1963, electric stoves appeared in Norilsk apartments
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Until the early 1960s, the kitchens of residential buildings in Norilsk under construction - in the Stalin era houses and even in some of the first Hrushchev era buildings - were first equipped with bulky wood-burning stoves with chimneys. They were heated with wood ...
Norilsk Snowflake turns 60 this year
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The drawing with the word ‘Norilsk’ and the date ‘1961’ testified to the beginning of a new era in polar housing construction. Leningradskaya street became the first one where they began to build houses from reinforced concrete panels. In 1961, the construction of its first ...
In 1950s, Norilsk residents built houses for themselves
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For metallurgists or miners without experience, it was difficult to build a house alone, so they took a companion - some construction company. The idea was simple: local authorities allocated a site for the construction of an apartment building, construction organizations sent experienced engineers and ...
In 1980s, helicopter was popular attraction
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. To tell the truth, the word ‘business’ had not yet entered into use: entrepreneurs were called cooperators, sometimes, speculators or they called it individual labor activity. The first timid sprouts of capitalism also appeared in Norilsk at that time: private cafes, video salons, taxis. In the ...
In 1985 Gerald Durrell visited Taimyr
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. He worked on the picture Durrell in Russia, which was filmed in thirteen reserves of the USSR by documentary filmmakers of the Canadian television company Primemedia Productions. The authors and presenters - Durrell and his wife Lee, a biologist and ornithologist - were interested ...
In 1980s, Norilsk was considered region’s most comfortable city
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk residents were provided with 553 various consumer services. In total, over 2.5 thousand people worked in the service sector in the city. The culmination of the service growth was the construction of a universal consumer service house Norilsk, which were few in the ...
Norilsk metallurgists became feature film heroes
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The film was billed as a social drama. Its main character came to the North to earn money and supported his little son, ex-wife, step-aunt. And the ‘friends’ in the name were graduates of the orphanage in which the hero had grown up. Alexander Solovyov Most ...
Norilsk and Taimyr residents invited to Severomorsk battleship
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Dudinka, sailors are conducting excursions around the large anti-submarine ship Severomorsk. The ship arrived in the capital of the Arctic on September 7 as part of a detachment of the Northern Fleet ships. Officers tell guests about the Severomorsk history, its technical characteristics and ...