History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It cannot be said that the new houses were more beautiful, but it is clear that they were built faster and easier. Norilsk resident Joseph Shamis recalled how the transition to large-panel housing construction began in Norilsk. “In Norilsk, almost from the first steps of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. When cinema was the most important art, as well as the only cultural form of recreation, in the city, in addition to large cinemas, there were several small cinema halls in almost every village around the city. Today, few people remember where the Looch, Sever, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The production of gypsum stucco moldings and concrete castings for Norilsk architecture was put on stream in the mid-1940s. Sculptural elements were intended for houses under construction - both for decorating facades and interiors. The ideological context of our bas-reliefs is interesting. Architects, when ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The head of the Norilsk combine and the forced labor camp, Avraamy Zavenyagin, entrusted the work on the map and survey of the area to the design department of Norilsk. Experts identified five possible sites. Two of them - in the valley of Bear Creek ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first film vans wandered around the Yenisey Arctic for almost a year and really brought “art to the masses”. It’s interesting that the note also mentions Norilsk. But they called it Narymsk - such a spelling was found at the beginning of the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Norilsk residents at that time went to fight the white enemy hand-to-hand: they cleared roads and railway tracks with shovels. The combine’s annual losses reached eight million rubles. During a blizzard, it was allowed to stop almost all other work and bring people out ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. But before the railway construction, the route from Dudinka to Norilsk was only on foot or by sleigh. In the summer, a mixed pedestrian and water route worked: goods and people were sent by water - by barges along the river from Dudinka to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The seven-story building rose on Pestsovaya Sopka and was noticeable in every sense. Therefore, before the construction of the towers on Octyabrskaya square, it was CHPP-1 that became the “face of Norilsk” and the main entrance to the village. A spacious alley led to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On the other side of lake Dolgoye, there was an industrial zone, that is, the main jobs for Norilsk residents. And Gorstroy - the territory in which we live now - was only a small residential site. Vladimir Lebedinsky. 1973 The city under construction was separated by ...