History spot
Diamond in Bolshoy theater’s crown
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Today marks 80 years since the birth of Vladislav Piavko. We offer a photo report from the concert of Vladislav Piavko and his team of tenors on Gvardeyskaya square in the summer of 2005. The People’s Artist of the USSR, a ...
What Arctic cities built of
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Norilsk was built in the 20th century from local building materials. In February 1945, in the structure of the Norilsk combine and the forced labor camp, the management of local building materials enterprises was organized. It was the tenth year ...
Norilsk Nickel plant was laid before war
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Big Metallurgical Plant, as the Nickel plant was called until the early 1950s, was commissioned a year later. In February 1942, the head of the Norilsk combine and camp, Alexander Panyukov, determined the procedure for launching an extraordinary part ...
Polyarka working at Norilsk theater for seven years
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk Laboratory of Contemporary Drama was named Polyarka because it opened on the day when the polar night left the city. This was the case for the first four years, then the dates changed slightly. The eighth laboratory dedicated ...
Village named Taimyr had to be built in 1976
The construction project for the village in the area of Thermal power plant -2, about 30 kilometers from Norilsk, appeared in the city's development plans when the Nadezhda metallurgical plant was being built. The designers proposed to compensate for the remoteness of the future settlement ...
Norilsk theater building turns 35
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This is one of the few original buildings in the city and the largest of the spectacular ones. The implementation of the project was under threat, since initially the deputy minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy for Construction refused to give permission ...
Norilsk is city of most incredible metallurgical transformations
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The highly efficient autogenous melting technology by the method of metallurgist Andrey Vanyukov was introduced at the plant in 1977. Today there are two furnaces named after the pioneering professor, thanks to which the annual output of copper is more ...
In late 90s Norilsk combine collective agreement was extremely reliable
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Photo report of 1991 from the procedure of signing the Collective Agreement between the Norilsk Nickel concern and its employees takes it to the events of 30 years ago, when both the city and the combine had big problems. The ...
With Talnah opening Norilsk people took up alpine skiing
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For example, a geneticist Igor Panshin, the future honorary citizen of the city, metallurgist and sportsman Valery Derevtsov, and many others were fond of mountain skiing. Pavel Bunigin, the author of photographs from competitions of alpine skiers half a century ...