History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The iInstitute was created in 1937, when the Northern Sea Route was being intensively developed. The Institute was aimed at creating its own food base for the industrial centers of the Far North. Twenty years after the discovery, in 1957, the scientists were transferred closer ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Prior to that, in Norilsk, they showed movies both on stationary screens and on mobile cinema ones. Rodina opened not in a separate building, but on the first floor of a residential one because of shortage of housing, as the social and cultural life was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The architect Fyodor Usov designed the notable building of the fire station for four motor vehicles. There was an inscription visible from afar - “Call 01 about the fire”. The city market was behind it. Private traders sold various deficits there - from meat ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Navigation for boats on the Norilsk reservoirs traditionally opens on July 1. Taimyr has a very developed network of lakes and rivers. From Norilskaya river you can even walk to the Kara sea if you walk along the Pyasina river. From Norilka you can walk ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering developed the reactor for the laboratory. Reactor was serviced by 20 specialists The research nuclear reactor RG-1M, a modernized heterogeneous type reactor No. 1, was launched in March 1970. Its main task was industrial activation analysis. The reactor was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The holiday was celebrated by the first eight winterers headed by Nikolay Urvantsev. Whether they decorated the tree is unknown, because in Soviet Russia the persecution of the Christmas tree began as a ‘priest’s relic’. Norilsk New Year tree In 1935, when the order was issued ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first railroad was icy. Builders made mounds of brushwood, snow and water. First Norilsk bridges made of wood and ice The first bridges were the same - snow dams froze over the rivers. Of course, in the summer the icy roads melted: the rails simply ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1944, a competition was held for the best design of a wooden indoor swimming pool. But at that time it did not come to construction. The construction of the pool building on the mountain, in the park named after the 30th anniversary of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the spring of 1954, the event was an all-Union one: they elected deputies to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, and to the regional and city councils, and even people’s judges. Elections in Norilsk The elections in Norilsk in the 1950s were very difficult. Norilsk, ...