Cuba delegation arrived in Norilsk in 1975
After the break in 1952, the Soviet Union restored diplomatic relations with ...
Dick Smith landed in Norilsk in 1989
He was the first in the world to make a solo flight ...
Norilsk got closed for foreigners in 2001
In 2001, Norilsk became a city with a regulated visit for foreign ...
Norilsk once had its own satirical magazine Crocodile
Despite the harsh climate, there has always been a lot of visual ...
First Norilsk residents’ ashes urns buried at Zero Point
In 1985, in Leningrad, the Urvantsevs died. The mournful event happened when ...
Arched conduits built Instead of headers between houses in Norilsk
Over the question of how to put heating networks on permafrost, engineers ...
Tram, trolleybus and monorail planned to operate in Norilsk
The idea of the Norilsk tram arose in the 1940s. The lines ...
Guinness Book minister visited Norilsk
For the first time, Pyotr Lomako visited Norilsk in the late 1950s ...
Norilsk future determined in 1935
For more than 20 years, from 1935 to 1956, Norillag prisoners performed ...




