History spot
First Norilsk streets were in Old Town
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In November 1938, just three years after the Norilsk combine’s construction start, Avraamy Zavenyagin signed the order to name the first streets. The first buildings of the Norilsk settlement formed six city lines. View of Mount Schmidt from Zavodskaya Street, 19431944 yearBus ZiS-16 on Oktyabrskaya Street, ...
Scientists observe northern lights in Norilsk since 1963
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The integrated magnetic ionospheric station, also known as the Polar Cosmophysical Test Site, is the most remote site of the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Polar Cosmophysical Test Site The landfill was opened near Norilsk in 1963. ...
DITR was first cultural center of Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The building was erected at the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, despite the fact that the temporary design instructions then strictly prescribed: “Exclude clubs, cinema and other cultural and social institutions from construction plans, and those started to suspend”. House of Engineering and ...
First ski station in Norilsk opened in December 1942
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The skiing club was also organized there, where the athletes themselves became coaches. That ski lodge was just a small wooden house where one could warm up. There was usually the place of start and finish, and the routes themselves were laid in the gorges ...
Tram, trolleybus and monorail had to be launched in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk people were looking for a variety of vehicles that would be suitable for the Far North. Passengers at a stop So, in the 1940s, a tram was designed in Norilsk, in the 1960s they wanted to launch a trolleybus, and in the 1980s there ...
First illuminated advertisements in Norilsk appeared in early 1960s
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Advertising became the city decoration: the first neon signs illuminated the facades and shop windows of the prospect - the Lama cafe, the Taimyr restaurant, the Norilsk hotel, the Lenin cinema. First illuminated advertisements in Norilsk In 1960, a fluorescent lamps manufacture workshop appeared in the ...
Norilsk main street originally called Stalin avenue
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Then at the request of the working people the name of Lenin was given to the former Monchegorskaya street. The main avenue at that time consisted of two parts. The section from the monument to Lenin to Gvardeyskaya square was called Ordzhonikidze street, and the ...
There were three monuments to Lenin in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the mid-1940s, a small monument to the leader with a poetically raised hand was erected on Pestsovaya Sopka at the entrance to the CHP building. The reinforced concrete Lenin of semi-handicraft work for a very long time remained the personal attraction of power engineers: ...
Norilsk mosque is the only one beyond Arctic Circle
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. All religious buildings in Norilsk were built in the 1990s. The first one was a modest Baptist church on Nansen street, built in 1991. In the same year, at the intersection of Pushkin and Kirov streets, on the site of the old fire tower, the ...