History spot
French newspaper head visited Norilsk
In the 1970s, the correspondents of the capitalist countries’ communist newspapers came to our city almost every year. From the USA, Canada, Finland, Italy, Venezuela, but more often from France. Sharing their impressions in blitz interviews with local journalists, everyone, as a rule, called the city ...
First house became a museum
From the day of its opening, the museum director Arseny Bashkirov conducted excursions around the exposition of the History and Production Museum branch (IPM) for Norilsk residents and guests of the city. For a former engineer and journalist, a full member of the Geographical Society ...
Thirty years to create the city’s face
A Petersburg resident who graduated from the Art and Industry College and the Faculty of Architecture of the Leningrad Institute of Industrial Construction Engineers, Vitold Nepokoichitsky arrived in the village at the Norillag in 1939. He came with his wife Lidiya Minenko to create a ...
Norilsk people surprised the president
According to the recollections of the Norilsk mayor Yuri Smolov, who accompanied the guest to Talnah together with the director of the plant Boris Kolesnikov, the traffic on the road was stopped while the car with the president was traveling. The residents of Norilsk, who ...
In 1963 first Norilsk library turned 25
All the high-ranking guests of Norilsk were taken on a conducted tour of the Scientific and Technical Library (STL). Alexey Kosygin, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, was interested in the use of the foreign magazines purchased by the plant for foreign currency. The ...
Still Norilsk fan
In the Central Committee of the CPSU (the Comunist Party of the Soviet Union), the former director of the Norilsk combine was responsible for the defining sectors of the economy. All industries under the jurisdiction of the CPSU Central Committee secretary from 1972 to 1988 were ...
Metallurgist Day of 1997
Aleksandr Hloponin, the thirty-two-year-old acting at that time general director of Norilsk Nickel, is next to the legendary leaders of the Norilsk combine of the 1950s – 1960s, Vladimir Dolgih and Aleksey Loginov. Alexey Loginov was a Norilsk resident from 1941 to 1957. The former ...
Copper plant first director made it best enterprise
The first smelting, on 21 December, 1949, was symbolic: copper was so scarce that there was nothing to pour. And yet, at a gala meeting in honor of the 70th anniversary of Stalin, Kibalin, having reported on the first stage launch, handed over to the ...
Cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev was a Norilsk guest twice
In Norilsk the Hero of the Soviet Union presented state awards at the 40th Komsomol anniversary celebration. In 1985, the honorary citizen of Norilsk took part in the so called friendship smelting at the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant. For the second time, twice Hero of the Soviet ...