History spot
First Norilsk ice cream was in baskets
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The old dairy plant was then located in the area of the village of Semerka. Since 1958, it has been producing Norilsk milk, cottage cheese, sour cream, kefir, cheese mass and, of course, ice cream - in those first years it was in waffle ...
Norilsk hotel on Gvardeyskaya square opened in 1960
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Hotels in the twin houses, in addition to their direct purpose, also served as hostels for engineers. In any case, it is known for certain that the family of Nikolay Urvantsev lived in one of them. It was convenient - hotel service in home ...
Lenin cinema had to be named World first
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In addition to the main cinemas on Komsomolskaya square - Rodina and Pobeda - there were movie machines in the villages. Quite often village clubs became mini-cinemas: Sever - in the Vostochny settlement, Zarya - in the Krugloye Ozero settlement, Stroitel club - in ...
In the 1950s, Sovetskaya street divided Norilsk into two parts
“Starting from 1958, provide for comfortable apartments for one family in residential buildings under construction in cities and in rural areas. The construction should be carried out according to standard designs”, the Central Committee of the CPSU decided. This decision canceled the author’s approach to architecture ...
Norilsk infectious disease hospital built taking into account south wind
According to the initial project, the complex consisted of eight buildings: surgical, administrative, obstetric, tuberculosis, children's somatic, therapeutic, economic and infectious. The designers then even took into account the wind rose and the relief. The infectious disease building, for example, was placed so that the prevailing ...
In the mid-50s Komsomol members from Moscow and Leningrad were main Norilsk residents
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On May 19, 1956, the country's central newspapers published an appeal by the party and government to young people to work on construction sites in the Far North and the Far East: to develop the largest deposits of non-ferrous and rare metals. Seeing off the ...
Zapolyarnik stadium was originally public garden
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The main green spot on the Norilsk map was the square, which was located where the first Norilsk cowsheds stood. Zapolyarnik stadium was originally public garden The construction of the square began in the summer of 1952 in the area of Pushkin street. “This summer, a large ...
First restaurant in Norilsk opened when city was still camp
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Until that time, the issue of public catering was not an easy one. The townspeople complained that there was a very meager assortment in the canteens and cafes: canned borsch as a main dish, mashed potatoes with stewed meat as a second course, there ...
First pre-war Norilsk Avenue was Zavodskaya Street
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This is how Lake Rudnoye, Gornaya, Zavodskaya, Pyasinskaya, Ozernaya, Oktyabrskaya, Melnichenko streets appeared in Norilsk. Zavodskaya street Until 2016, Zavodskaya street led to the Big Metallurgical (Nickel) Plant onMountain Street, on which the First House of Norilsk stood. To the east of it, in the direction ...