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#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The builders of the combined heat and power plant were the first to receive the challenge Red Banner in December 1943. In June 1944, the Norilsk metallurgists fulfilled the six-month plan, and the Norilsk combine received the velvet cloth embroidered with gold. It is known ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first honorary people were called the former Norilsk people who had made a great contribution to the formation of the city and the Norilsk combine. Vsevolod Lukyanov’s contribution was associated with the development of the Norilsk polar theater. Lukyanov arrived in the village ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For the Norilsk people, 1966 was fruitful for awards: in April, 11 first builders were awarded the Lenin Prize. A decade later, a street appeared in Norilsk in honor of eleven laureates of the Lenin Prize for the construction of the combine and the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Non-flying weather prevented Yury Makeyev’s Theater of Taste and the legendary Alexey Paperny from coming to Norilsk. Only the Horonko Orchestra, broke through to the special program of the seventh Polyarka. All the claimed directors and critics also arrived. The opening of the laboratory of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Back in 1970, two sea berths with a length of 290 meters were constructed, new equipment began to appear by the minute: cranes, excavators. Everything was aimed at increasing the turnover, which in 1971 amounted to 2.5 million tons. For comparison: in 1968 this figure ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Former Russian presidential candidate Alexander Lebed defeated the incumbent governor Valery Zubov, also thanks to the active support of the Norilsk people. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who flew to Norilsk, and singer Lyudmila Zykina, who spoke in support of Zubov, urged not to vote for Lebed. At ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Giant of the Arctic was the name of the first film about Norilsk, shot during the Great Patriotic War with the participation of the first photo laboratory workers Arkady Sorokin and Victor Glass. By that time, the former employee of the Izvestiya newspaper ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Valentin Lebedev made his first space flight in 1973 as a flight engineer on the Soyuz-13 spacecraft. On his first visit to Norilsk, the Hero of the Soviet Union took part in the presentation of state awards for the Komsomol anniversary. According to the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. After the death of the man who laid the foundations of the Arctic giant in 1938-1941, the Norilsk combine was named after him. In the year of the 25th anniversary of the plant, on July 23, 1960, a monument to the twice Hero of ...