History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The ski touring in 1970, of course, was dedicated to the centenary of the Soviet country’s founder, Vladimir Lenin’s birth. This was the reason for the route: from Shushenskoye, the place of the leader’s exile, to Norilsk. Nine skiers of the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The ski season in Taimyr usually starts in October and ends in June. However, in the 1930s - 1940s, skiers were rarely seen in the middle of winter. The polar night and the February-March snowstorms paused skiing. Pictures from the photo ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It is not known for certain why Georgy Volkov, a staff specialist of the combine’s photo information bureau, went to the Norilsk city hospital, where he took photographs in all its departments. Perhaps a booklet or some other publication was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. One of the eleven future laureates of the Lenin Prize for the development and implementation of the construction pile foundations in the Far North arrived in Norilsk together with other evacuees from Monchegorsk. When the team of future Norilsk residents ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The meetings of the veterans were held at the Combine’s Palace of Culture and the House of Technology. Colonels and lieutenant colonels, majors and captains, lieutenants, sergeants and privates in the reserve received congratulations on the stage and in the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A year later the polar combine caught up with the Uralians, and in 1945 it exceeded their indicators by more than two times. The Red Banner of the State Defense Committee was left forever at the Norilsk combine. Contributors to the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the Sopot festival, Muslim Magomayev performed the Russian folk song -  Along the Petersburg street, the Polish song called It was on that day and won first place. Pop stars from 27 countries of the world came to the ...

# ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Pyotr Lomako held the post of Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy for almost half a century. In the 1970s - early 1980s, the main concern of the minister was Nadezhda metallurgical plant and the redistributions associated with the plant. In 1968, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Nikolay Loy’s second homeland celebrated his 95th anniversary with an exhibition in the gallery. Exposition 2020 was close to his farewell one of 1979. In twenty Norilsk years, the painter and graphic artist Nikolay Loy made a name not only for ...