History spot
From pine needles to bacteriophages
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. As for the Krasnoyarsk region, its Sanitary and Epidemiological Service has celebrated the 75th anniversary this year. The first doctors of Norilsk The first epidemiologists selflessly and successfully fought against dysentery, typhus and typhoid fever. Highly professional employees of the sanitary-epidemiological station, which was part of ...
Gabbro-diabase block installed in Norilsk center in 1966
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The idea came from two Komsomol secretaries: Igor Aristov from Norilsk and Oleg Kolesnichenko from Krasnoyarsk. Gabbro-diabase appeared on Guards Square The ceremony of opening the stone with the promise to build in its place 'an obelisk that always reminds of the heroic deeds of the ...
Norilsk Drama Theater celebrates two anniversaries this year
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the age of 26, a high school graduate with a pedagogical bias became an actor in a theater at the Krasnoyarsk Railwaymen’s House of Culture. Grigory Borodenko, 1946 In 1941, with the knowledge of the regional arts department, Borodenko assembled a private troupe to work ...
Norilsk combine got Zavenyagin’s name in 1957
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1941, Zavenyagin was appointed Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR. Avraamy Zavenyagin He proved that in Norilsk it was possible and necessary to organize a full cycle of nickel production - from ore to pure metal. Prior to that, it was believed ...
Norilsk was first to set composters in buses
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the first Norilsk buses, the fare was not fixed: there was no single tariff; the conductor was paid for the number of stops traveled by the passenger. Bus stop, 1960Passengers at a bus stop, 19651985 yearLiAZ-677, circa 1977 The timetable was also rather arbitrary: linear ...
Norilsk train used to arrive at Leninsky prospect
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. From most remote villages, residents traveled to Norilsk by train. Therefore, in addition to the main railway station, which was located at the Norilsk-Sortirovochnaya station on Vokzalnaya street, far from residential areas, the railway was extended to the Octyabrskaya square station. Residents traveled from remote ...
First pioneer organization in Norilsk created in 1939
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On April 27, 1947, the first village meeting took place. In the same year, in one of the first high buildings in the new part of Norilsk, Gorstroy, the House of Pioneers was opened in the basement. Due to the fact, the whole street ...
First sports club in Norilsk organized in 1935
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Back on November 29, 1935, the head of Norilskstroy, Vladimir Matveyev, signed an order: “To introduce physical education and develop shooting sports, organize a branch of the Dynamo sports community”. Dynamo stadium, 1946Athletic parade, 1946Athletic parade, 1945Metallurg Stadium (formerly Dynamo), later renamed TrudEntrance to ...
Hantayskaya street built on camp department site
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The houses of Hantayskaya street were built in Norilsk not long ago - in the early 1990s. However, despite this, it has an interesting four-part history. Severny village, 1977Severny village, 1975Severny settlementConstruction in Norilsk. Behind the background is the village of SevernyFormer settlement Severny, ...