History spot
Repressed doctors contributed most to Norilsk healthcare
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1970 photographs, the 72-year-old chief surgeon of the city hospital, Victor Kuznetsov, is performing an operation. According to the recollections of his student, the honorary citizen of Norilsk, the head physician department of the same hospital, Evgeny Klimov, there ...
Boris Kolesnikov was on intimate terms with Norilsk people
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the time of Boris Kolesnikov, the territory of the Taimyr Autonomous District (now the Taimyr Municipal District) was also among constant concerns of the combine’s director. In 1979, before the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the ...
Norilsk masters of color
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Through the eyes of Chin-Mo-Tsai, the colored North was first seen by readers of the most popular magazines: Soviet Union, Ogonyok, Soviet Photo and others. In the 1970s, the head of the Norilsk Combine's photo information bureau was a participant and ...
Moscow community of Norilsk people appeared in 1978
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The idea of meeting in the Central House of Writers in Moscow arose after the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine. In 1975, a gala concert was held at the Central House of Writers, ...
Soviet Aeroflot flagship first flew to Norilsk in 1983
For several decades, the Il-62 served as plane number 1, transporting top officials of the state: from Brezhnev to Yeltsin. It stopped being the president's plane only in 1995, when the Il-96 came to replace it. For several decades, the Il-62 served as plane number 1, ...
Izvestia newspaper helped in elections in Norilsk in 1979
The Ministry of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy and Aeroflot participated in the preparation of the campaign route for the constituencies in the Far North, together with the Izvestia newspaper. It is known that in Norilsk, guests were lowered underground, taken to the Copper plant and to school No. ...
Norilsk met with literature celebrities in 1984
The Days of Soviet Literature in 1984 were held in Norilsk for the fifth time. Twelve famous poets and writers from Moscow, Leningrad, Riga, Frunze, Irkutsk, headed by Robert Rozhdestvensky, met with readers and admirers in libraries and cinemas in Norilsk and Talnah, in the ...
Vladimir Dolgih died on October 8, 2020
In the late 1950s, they talked of a possible curtailment of work in Norilsk, but with the discovery of the Talnah field, the situation changed radically. At the beginning of 1962, after the appointment of the chief engineer of the Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine (NMMC) ...
Famous tenor became Norilsk honorary citizen in 2008
Vladislav Piavko told he had three native places on the Earth. The first was Krasnoyarsk, where the soloist of the Bolshoy Theater was born. The second was Norilsk, where he grew up and matured. And Kolomna, near Moscow, where he studied in the rocket school ...