History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Unlike its predecessors, it has not been converted from a camp canteen or residential barrack. The so called DITR was designed as a Palace of Culture. The project was entrusted to young architects Vitold Nepokoichitsky and Lydia Minenko. The first building with architectural excesses was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. During the expedition of 1925-1926, Nikolay Urvantsev’s group brought three Renault caterpillar tractors with loaded sledges from Dudinka. The first vehicles came to Norilsk together with geologists During the expedition of 1925-1926, Nikolay Urvantsev’s group brought three Renault caterpillar tractors with loaded sledges from Dudinka. The machines ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Active and, most importantly, collective leisure was monitored by the district committee of trade unions. It was the trade unions of various Norilsk enterprises that were engaged in the arrangement of tourist centers and night dispensaries in the vicinity of Norilsk. First camp sites in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Those houses were located on the first Norilsk street - Gornaya. In 1935, the first two-storey building in the village was built on it - the combine’s management office. In addition, there was the city council’s building, the first nursery school, the first building ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. New items always came to the town with a delay, but this did not prevent the townspeople from splurging - in their own way. It was especially hard in the 1930s – 1940s: dressing was not easy. There was nothing to buy in stores, people ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For the trip to the United States in February 1947, deputy people’s commissar of internal affairs Avraamy Zavenyagin chose the head of the Norilsk metallurgical plants department Alexey Loginov. Before the evacuation of Severonickel enterprise, the former Monchegorsk citizen was the combine’s enrichment enterprises ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The girl’s figure stood next to the cottages on the shore of the Dolgoye lake. It was the most mysterious and multifaceted - it had several popular names: a geologist, a teacher, a sniper, a Komsomol member, a Norilsk woman - all these are ...

#ARCTIC.#SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The overlapping headquarters, headed by the chief engineer of Hantaigesstroy, Vladimir Plotnikov, decided to throw boulders into the river in bundles. The right to dump the first ‘oversized’ boulders was won by the teams of drivers Nikolay Barchukov, Vladimir Shonov and Boris Golvan with Mikhail ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. But at that time the first four polar schools appeared: in Dudinka, Hatanga, the village of Tolsty Nos and Norilsk. Under Norilsk the Norilsk wintering (Chapel) was meant which was located on the Rybnaya river. There, the first school in our region was opened, ...