History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Labor Red Banner Order for the discovery and exploration of the Talnah deposit of copper-nickel ores was presented to geologists by the director of the plant Vladimir Dolgih. Nikolay Urvantsev, the discoverer of Norilsk, flew to the celebration from ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk people followed the Soyuz-26 spaceship, on which Yury Romanenko and Georgy Grechko flew on December 10, 1977, and the Salyut-6 orbital station until the return of the cosmonauts from the near-earth orbit on March 16, 1978. For 46-year-old flight ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first expedition led by the chief physician of the Norilsk infectious diseases hospital, Georgy Popov, flew to the Taimyr village of Volochanka at the end of October 1957 and worked there until the end of the year. Together with ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The song and dance ensemble of the North peoples celebrated its 50th anniversary last year. During this time, Heiro has renewed its roster more than once, but has always remained the best. The photographic archive of the Nornickel Polar Division contains ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The session of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR gathered at the Norilsk Music School not only the leading scientists of the country, engaged in solving problems of polar medicine, and Norilsk doctors. The ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the early 1980s, intensive care units were opened in a new building, and in 1986 - newborn pathology department. The Norilsk doctors were proud of the low infant mortality rate in the city and believed that this was not ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The archival document on the Dudinka winter settlement foundation in 1667 was introduced into scientific circulation by the local historian, history teacher Pavel Vashchenko. A year before the jubilee, he published the information he had obtained in the newspaper Soviet ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 2011, the Parallels international art festival was held for the first time in the Norilsk Polar Drama Theater. It included not only an extensive theatrical program, but also concerts, photo exhibitions, master classes by participants from cities crossing the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the winter of 1963, the village of Snezhnogorsk on the Khantayka river had a thousand inhabitants. The main forces of the builders arrived from the taiga river Mamakan. There were also Norilsk people among the paratroopers. The headquarters of the ...