History spot

In the second half of the 1960s, Leninsky prospekt got its full length. The builders erected Ordzhonikidze and Krasnoyarskaya streets and Kotulsky proezd. Ordzhonikidze's name originally appeared on the Norilsk map in a completely different place. That was the name of the main highway section from ...

Alexey Kosygin could not help but visit Nadezhda metallurgical plant (NMP). He closely followed the object, because he himself promoted the construction of a metallurgical giant of a full cycle - from ore to metal - beyound the Arctic Circle. Moreover, the construction of the plant ...

Lama Lake for Norilsk citizens began with the camp. In 1938, the first prisoners were brought there for logging. But the director of the combine, Avraamy Zavenyagin, quickly discerned the recreational potential of the lake and ordered to organize a recreation area at the lake. They ...

Finnish companies Outokumpo Oy, Rauma-Repola and Alstrem also signed contracts for detailed design, supply and adjustment of equipment. The general designer was the Norilskproekt institute, the subcontractor for the production line was the Leningrad Gipronickel. The Nadezhdinsky plant name appeared at the suggestion of the chief ...

The flight followed the route Krasnoyarsk - Norilsk - Moscow. Norilsk state agency Aeroflot sold 152 tickets to the capital for the first flight. Levandovsky, the deputy head of the Krasnoyarsk civil aviation administration, flew on the same plane. He said that the Tu-154 took ...

Back in 1982, the Norilsk executive committee allocated a land plot in Oganer (a part of the Big Norilsk) for the construction of a 1000-bed hospital. At the expense of the combine, foreign currency financing was got and the international competition for the implementation of ...

The history of the Nadezhda metallurgical plant began a decade earlier than its official birth. In 1968, the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Kosygin flew to Norilsk. His visit was the impetus for the construction of the second nickel plant, which did ...

Vladimir Putin flew to Norilsk for one day on March 22, 2002. In the history of the city, this was the second visit of the state first person. In 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee, the future last president of ...

The mine No.7 became an independent economic unit on August 2, 1945. The construction began a year later. In 1952, the mines 7 and 9 merged into one - 7/9. In 1959, it was joined with the mining enterprise No.8 and named Zapolyarny. The field of ...