History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In November 1982, a decree was issued on the transformation of the workers’ settlements of Kayerkan and Talnah into towns of regional subordination. Kayerkan was only half built. A supermarket, a canteen, a polyclinic, a gym, an art school, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Lena Burmenskaya came to the Norilsk basin at least three times since she was six, but she began to train only after entering school. According to her father, the honored trainer of the RSFSR Yury Burmensky, regular - six times ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The port head from 1970 to 1988, Alexander Kizim, recalled his first impression of the ice drift from the 1960s: “...Ice fields of one and a half meters thick pile up above the water, crushing everything... At that time, the port ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. More than three dozen different enterprises and organizations were concentrated in Dudinka in 1951. The main ones were the river port, the sawmill, the industrial plant, the Selhozstroy office and the fish factory. The former village began to acquire an urban ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On the day of the double premiere, February 27, 1987, and until the end of the 46th season, there were no empty seats in the auditorium of the new theater. The Norilsk residents went to new performances and to see ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The nineteen-year-old deputy company commander, who went to the front in 1941, was wounded in a counteroffensive near Moscow. The second wound did not allow Vladimir Dolgih to return to the front, and he took to textbooks to finish school, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The firstborn of the Norilsk large-panel housing construction was decorated with the symbol of permafrost. Snowflake and the Norilsk 1961 inscription on the house’s side immortalized the date of the of wall panels production start in the northern city. An experimental ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1971 the combine’s photo-information bureau celebrated its 30th anniversary. At that time, its creator was designing the Moscow magazine Musical Life and gladly took part in the celebration of his brainchild’s anniversary. He flew with an exhibition of watercolors. Arkady ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. One of the authors (with Aleksey Bondarev) of the first book about Norilsk remained Sergey Shcheglov-Norilskiy for life. A freshman of the history faculty of the Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute was sentenced to five years for anti-Soviet agitation and was brought ...