History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The original certificate issued for the pilot of the Norilsk NKVD combine, major Verebryusov, stating that he was sent to Berlin on business, was dated July 6, 1945. It has a mark on the departure from Moscow at the end of the month, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first TEM-1 - a diesel locomotive with an electric supply, shunting, type 1 - was received by the Norilsk railway on August 1, 1960. The production of diesel locomotives of this series had been launched in the Soviet Union ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The photographs from 1976 capture one day at the Norilsk zonal hydrometeorological observatory, as the current Taimyr center for hydrometeorology and environmental monitoring was called at that time. Not only the service employees of the mid-1970s, but also the equipment that ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Traumatologist Alexander Karpushin arrived in Norilsk with his wife Vera, also a doctor, in the early 1960s. The family of doctors had four children, three of whom also became doctors. The contribution of Karpushin Sr. to the Norilsk healthcare is related ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the end of 1941, Vladimir Rodionov was transferred from Dudinka to the post of chief physician and head of the surgical department of the hospital for the civilian staff of the Norilsk combine. By that time, the doctor had ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first gas pipeline Messoyakha - Norilsk became a reality in December 1970. Two years later, the first torch was lit at the new Yuzhno-Soleninsky gas field. It was the largest of the three gas fields developed by that time, but ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first workers flew to cape Kisly, which later became Tuhard and the transshipment base of gas workers in the Arctic. The location of the berths and the future village was determined. The main forces of builders arrived in Dudinka ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. By that time, the first Talnah ore had already appeared in the history of Norilsk. In 1965, at the celebration of the 30th combine’s anniversary, lorries loaded with Mayak ore went along Norilsk streets. The first mine was built along with ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Doctor, athlete, sports journalist, trainer Iskander Fayzullin took over the swimming pool in Norilsk immediately after its opening in 1959. His first Norilsk jubilee, the 50th anniversary, coincided with the organization of the Zapolyarnik sports club in the city. Perhaps ...