History spot

On June 10, 1944, the Council of People's Commissars’ resolution on the establishment of the Norilsk mining and metallurgical technical school was signed, and on June 20, the Norilsk combine director Panyukov signed the order. The order said: "The Norilsk Nickel Combine further development prospect ...

The construction of a new stadium, opposite school No. 4, began in 1952. At first, on the site of the state farm's cattle yards, a public garden named after Pushkin was laid out. In 1956, they began to level the territory directly under the new ...

The word ‘subbotnik’ (derived from ‘subbota’ – Saturday), that is, ‘conscious, organized free labor for the benefit of society in free time’, has been familiar to us since childhood. It is believed that the first subbotnik took place on Saturday, April 12, 1919. At that ...

Two years later, livestock buildings were built on the site of the current Zapolyarnik stadium. In May 1938, the Norilsk agricultural organization became a state farm; there were 32 cows in its herd. By the mid-1940s, the state farm successfully grew turnips, potatoes, three types of ...

In 1949, engineer-hydrogeologist Vladimir Derpgolts submitted a memorandum with a fantastic title to the leaders of the force labor camp and the combine: "On the resort potential of the Norilsk region". According to the idea, the combine could not waste money and time on taking ...

Now the reindeer in Taimyr is the king of animals. It is the wealth of the northerners, and transport, and food. The reindeer took part in the Great Patriotic War, they were used on the Karelian front, where cars could not pass. From 1941 to 1944, ...

In February 1985, the marking of a new construction site began - the Oganer residential area. It was to become the “city of the future”. A special series of houses was developed for it. “Oganer is the first attempt in the country to create the ...

Children in Norilsk were surrounded with special care in order to compensate them for their life in the North. For weakened children, sanatorium kindergartens worked: the first one was built at the Tooth mountain. Getting tanned in a photoarium – an analogue of today's tanning ...

In August 1943, a factory training school, a prototype of vocational schools, was opened in Norilsk. Students were transported from the mainland, recruited in Norilsk and Dudinka: 14–17-year-old boys and girls were mobilized to study as if to the front line. They were trained to be ...