History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Scheer had sunk 16 merchant ships and 6 escort ships in 2 trips to the Atlantic. The German command was sure about the unconditional success of the raid in the Kara sea. However, it was wrong. The cruiser succeeded in attacking the port ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The renowned troupe of the Moscow Academic Theater of Satire, headed by the chief director Valentin Pluchek, was greeted both at the Nadezhda under construction and at the Arctic Sports Palace. In the "Arctic". Natalia Selezneva and Mikhail Derzhavin In their free time, famous guests were ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For studying and preliminary exploration of the Norilsk coal deposit, Urvantsev engaged the students of the Tomsk Secondary Technical School, who needed to undergo practical training. Expedition of 1921-1922 with Urvantsev in the center (wearing glasses)Tents of the 1920 expedition next to the abandoned dwelling ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. According to Innokenty Smoktunovsky himself, the theater director suggested him changing his real name Smoktunovich to Smoktunovsky. In the era of perestroika, in an interview with a central newspaper, he clarified that he was not a Pole by blood, but a Belarusian: “And my ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For the first time this professional holiday appeared in the Russian calendar in the previous but one century. The date – June 28, 1896 – was timed to coincide with the birthday of Emperor Nicholas I, who was considered the founder of this type ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In his interviews, Vladislav Piavko often repeated that the city could be proud of what he had achieved: “And I am proud of Norilsk too. It launched me like a rocket into the space”. Vladislav Piavko In 1946 the boy together with his mother came to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The decision to evacuate Severonickel was made on the fourth day after the war start. Large metallurgical (nickel) plant in Norilsk, May 1, 1942Large metallurgical plant. Casting blister copper into molds, 1945Alexey Loginov on the wires of chief engineer Vladimir DaryalskyNickel electrolysis workshop, 1943Monchegsrka street ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Later, the media of St. Petersburg and Murmansk joined the newspaper and the magazine. The findings of enthusiastic researchers aroused the interest of specialists, to whom the club members turned for an expert assessment. Motor ship with members of the 2008 expedition In the first reconnaissance ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Jerzy Bijak and his wife Barbara Sokolowska (in the main photo above) came from Gdansk a week before the opening of the memorial. Every morning they drove to Schmidt mountain, where the Nickelstroy workers set up steel rails with crosses entangled in barbed wire ...