History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Geographically, it was located behind the present Talnahskaya street, where it intersected with Pavlova and Anisimov streets. In 1944, ‘all the weak, sick, as well as physically underdeveloped juvenile convicts not older than 16 years’ were taken to Krasnoyarsk, and those who remained ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Such eateries were built in every Norilsk microdistrict. At first, they were designed to save the Norilsk women from cooking in shared kitchens in communal apartments. But even later, when many townspeople received separate apartments, cozy eateries still remained popular. They were lifesavers for ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At that time, by order of the combine’s head Avraamy Zavenyagin, a geological museum was opened: “for the purpose of a more complete study of the Norilsk deposits, preservation of materials on the geology of Norilsk and the popularization of geological knowledge”. It was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. After the first five years of the combine construction, the water in Dolgoye (translated as ‘long’) was not enough. They made an engineering decision - to block the Dolgaya river flowing from the lake with a dam, and thereby raise the water level. It was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Cargoes from the mainland went along the Yenisey river, and then along the railway, which was just being built and was working very unstable. Most of the goods and services had to be ‘invented’ and produced here. In 1941, for example, a glass and ceramic ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Two years later, when the intensive construction of the combine began, a direct route Dudinka-Norilsk was opened. On August 8, the pilot Nikolayev, on an SHA-2 aircraft, landed for the first time on the water of lake Dolgoye. In the summer of 1935, 49 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. School №1, the only school at that time, was located in a wooden building at the Zero Point. It was not easy to study during the Great Patriotic War years. Schoolchildren helped adults. The first students recalled: “They gave us the task to collect ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It was the merchant Sotnikov who broke the first adit on mount Rudnaya, opened the vein and mined the first ‘copper’ ore. The content of other metals in it was not yet known at that time. During the development of the Norilsk deposit, in 1937, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It all started with technical and accounting forms, orders of the Norilskstroy management. In 1938, leaflets began to be printed for a wide range of readers: ‘Planes are flying to Norilsk from the front - what are we going to load the planes ...