History spot
Unique materials on 1926 Subpolar Census published
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The census takers described in detail each native farm, its composition, economy and life, details of culture and spiritual life. Nothing like that had ever been done in any country in the world. The main territory of the census was ...
On Taimyr discovered by Vitus Bering his descendant rests
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The specialists of the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore learned about the military engineer Vladimir Bering’s fate from the Political Repression Victims Memory Book. The direct descendant of the captain-commander of the Russian fleet, who also led the Great Northern ...
French filmmakers filmed Last GULAG in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The France-5 TV channel chose Norilsk as the location for filming. Director Emanuel Amara, cameraman Frank Rebel and translator Mark Ely were accompanied by the main character of the film, a former Norillag prisoner Lev Netto. According to Amara’s plan, in ...
Norilsk got city status under combine’s fourth director
Zverev first flew to Norilsk to check... legendary Zavenyagin’s (the Norilsk combine’s second director after Vladimir Matveyev) work. The prospective fourth head turned 30 in 1940. In 1940, Avraamy Zavenyagin offered the member of the inspection commission to stay in Norilsk as deputy for production, but ...
Norilsk healthcare gained fame as best
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Doctors waited for it for a quarter of a century in total, treating the Norilsk residents in the buildings on Bogdan Hmelnitsky street, where there were twice beds more than required by sanitary standards. The chief physician of the city multidisciplinary ...
USSR flag on Norilsk motor ship raised in Finland
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Captain Eduard Voinov with the crew took the ship at a shipyard in Finland. The Norilsk was the first of a series of vessels designed by Soviet and Finnish designers to navigate in ice. After raising the national flag on November ...
First trip along Northern Sea Route dated November 1970
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The need for prolonged and then year-round sea navigation from Murmansk to Dudinka was talked about for decades. One of the first leaders of the Dudinka port, the legendary Vasily Ksintaris, believed that winter navigation in Dudinka had been opened ...
Author of technology accepted first metal
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The act on acceptance of the melting furnace in a liquid bath for complex testing was signed in early March, and two days later, on March 6, 1985, a solemn meeting was held at the plant, captured by photographer Vladimir ...
In Norillag era combine patronized farms in tundra
The artist who dropped out at VHUTEMAS (Higher art and technical workshops) before Norilsk was in charge of the illustration and art department of the Izvestia newspaper editorial board. He was friends with Lev Kassil, Mikhail Koltsov, Alexey Garry, whose essays he illustrated in the ...