History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1971, demographers predicted that by the beginning of the new millennium, 200,000 people would live in Big Norilsk. They made a downside mistake. Norilsk developed faster than planned, and it did not have enough housing. And even then, in the 1970s, the authorities began ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1980, two new buildings on Talnahskaya street - housed specialists from Finland who came to supervise the installation of technological equipment at Nadezhda metallurgical plant. The arrival of the Finnish builders made a whole revolution in the mentality and worldview of the Norilsk people. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A Tu-154B plane crashed in Alykel (Norilsk airport), arriving on flight 3603 from the region’s capital - Krasnoyarsk. There were 172 people on board: students after the session, servicemen from vacation, construction teams, a team of Norilsk wrestlers returning from competitions... Due to bad weather, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Simultaneously with measures to stimulate the birth rate, the government declared a fight against bachelors: single men paid a tax on childlessness. The country began to allocate more funds to medical institutions involved in the field of obstetrics. In the early 1980s, sanitization was carried ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk restaurant Taimyr in 1969 became a prize-winner of the country’s best public catering enterprises review-competition at the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy (VDNKh). There was a huge queue to the Podkova restaurant, where the residents of Norilsk were accommodated. Muscovites did ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The year began with severe frosts: the temperature did not rise above minus 45 degrees. At the same time, strong wind was blowing. On February 2, the dispatcher of Norilskgazprom enterprise over the radio reported a drop in pressure on the main gas pipeline Messoyaha ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The only day off – Sunday - was regularly spent on working: the city grew, and the method of ‘people's’ construction was very popular. In 1967, the Norilsk combine, in a single impulse with the whole country, switched to a five-day period. But for such ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For the first time in the history of the city, those people received a Soviet award of the highest level - they became laureates of the most prestigious Lenin Prize in the country. As indicated in the diplomas – ‘for the development and implementation ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. By the end of the 1950s, the air gates operating in Norilsk - the Nadezhda airport and the Nezhdanny winter airfield - could no longer cope with the number of air passengers. Moreover, at that time, the Nadezhda airport could not accept either the ...