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In 1940s power engineers made first Norilsk fountain
In the early 1940s, when Norilsk was listed only as a village, ...
“The spirit of fighting with nature force gave us strength”
In the 1940s, the bulk of Norilsk's population lived in what is ...
“…Give me the keys or die!”
The work of the first Norilsk geologists was always difficult: geological exploration ...
“Put the newspaper in its place and punish the article author!”
This year marks the 70th anniversary of not only Norilsk as a ...
“Father Frost… in felt boots”
Norilsk had its own archivist, not by profession, but by vocation. Trofim ...
Story of Netherlands Separating from Spain translated into thieves’ jargon
A lot of intellectuals were imprisoned in the Norillag forced labor camp ...
“Only one ski on the plane broke…”
Mastering the airline route to Norilsk was akin to Arctic flights: in ...
250 thousand Norilsk residents greeted Mikhail Gorbachev
On September 14, 1988, the CPSU Central Committee’s general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, ...
“Everything here is northernmost on the globe”
At the end of the 1950s, Norilsk became a free city. Journalists, ...