History spot
In the name of the first
Half a century ago, the obelisk was erected in the place where Talnah began. A former metallurgist, a creator of the 69 Parallel photo club, Vladimir Chin-Mo-Tsai in 1970 worked at the photo-information bureau of the Norilsk Combine, which he headed until he left Norilsk ...
Metropolitan Pitirim visited Norilsk in 1990
According to the recollections of the events’ participant Valery Pronnikov, in 1988 the Rus cristening 1000th anniversary celebration in Norilsk was held at a very high level. Soon, Pitirim the Metropolitan Volokolamsky and Yuryevsky, who had headed the publishing department of the Moscow Patriarchate for a ...
Norilsk Combine party opened by Robert Rozhdestvensky
The guests of the Central House of Writers were Norilsk residents of all generations. The meeting on the occasion of the combine’s golden anniversary was opened by a famous poet Robert Rozhdestvensky, at that time secretary of the USSR Writers Union board. One of the ...
Nadezhda plant finished in 1981
Holding 18 kilograms of openwork metal high above his head, the director of the Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine Boris Kolesnikov handed over the symbolic key to the rightful owners. It was received by the first director of the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant Albert Voronov, who ...
Norilsk airport planned in 1959
The country had been flying by jet aircraft for three years by that time. Norilsk received its first heavy An-10 turboprop aircraft in March 1961. The jet made regular flights on the Moscow - Syktyvkar - Norilsk route. It covered the distance of almost 4000 ...
Giant of the Arctic
The film group consisted of a cameraman, an electrical engineer and a director. The Norilsk Combine head Panyukov attached an assistant Victor Glass to them. The former cameraman who worked at Lenfilm was released from the Norillag in april 1945 and hired for work at ...
Moscow beaumonde invited to Norilsk
In the summer of 1978, the Moscow Satire Theater flew on tour to Norilsk. The honored artist of the RSFSR reported that there was no such charming children's cafe in the capital, while the national artist of the USSR Anatoly Papanov called Norilsk the southernmost ...
Bridge over Norilka world’s northernmost
Pontoon bridges, especially in the Arctic, were rare at that time. Right after that the bridge builders started constructing a reinforced concrete bridge. The modern bridge, connecting the ore of the right bank with the nickel and copper plants on the left one, was finished ...
Camp of dream
It was built by the Norilsk Combine for the children of its workers - on the banks of the Yenisei River, in a pine forest near the village of Atamanovo, 100 kilometers from Krasnoyarsk. The children were sent there for two summer months, from June ...