History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first civil status records that have come down to us, documenting the weddings of the Norilsk residents, are dated 1937. Norilsk weddings In 1939, the village council was situated in a two-story wooden house on Zavodskaya street in two small rooms. There it performed its ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Teams of designers and surveyors immediately left for the site of the future construction. They built quickly: at the beginning of September 1956, the first building was ready for tourists. And the official birth took place on November 3. Family rest house in Sochi At the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The beautiful classical architecture building became the main new construction of that year. The author of the project was the architect Sergey Horunzhiy. Norilsk railway station For the newly born city, the new building was gorgeous: classical Stalinist architecture, columns and stucco moldings, two main entrances ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The commissioning of the Norilsk concentration plant in 1948 the water consumption increased, and the flow rate again exceeded the inflow: Dolgoye lake grew shallow. Another, renewable source was needed. It was the Norilskaya river. Wooden water supply system But first, a nine-kilometer pipeline from the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilskaya river was a rather serious obstacle on the way of both the first travelers and the first builders. Before it was ‘ringed’ by the current stationary bridge, the right bank had to be reached by either boats in summer, or on ice ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. If we count all the bearish variations that stood in Norilsk in different years, it becomes clear why it was the polar bear that found refuge on the Norilsk coat of arms. Bears in Norilsk sculpture history Back in the mid-1940s, four plaster bears were placed ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Organized by the trade union, social activists themselves surrounded the territory with a fence, put sports equipment and swings, made a football field and a run path. First stadium in the Old Town Several thousand people gathered for the openning celebration. The sportsmen held a trade ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Cafe From Two to Five was opened in September 1966 at 30 Leninsky prospekt, on the top floor of a small extension, above the diet canteen. Cafe From Two to Five at Leninsky prospekt, 30A New Year party at the cafe A spiral staircase led to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1943, a commission from the Academy of Architecture of the USSR, considering the project for the development of Norilsk, came to the conclusion: "to recognize the method of multi-storey buildings in three or four floors to be correct for the conditions of the ...