Petersburg shipbuilders designed Arctic cruises ship
The comfortable five-deck ice-class motor ship was named Umka.
Dudinka to host Polar Cinema Day (12+)
Taimyr residents will watch five films dedicated to the development of the Arctic.
Yenisey water level rising
In Dudinka, the water in the river rose by almost 80 centimeters in a day.
Initially Norilsk coal was no less valuable than ore
The first scientist who wrote about Norilsk coal and even held its samples in his hands was Alexander Middendorf. The scientist-researcher traveled across Taimyr in 1842.
Norilsk Museum originated as closed geological collection
The Norilsk museum history began in 1939, when the Norilsk combine head Avraamy Zavenyagin ordered the opening of an ore and non-metallic minerals museum in Norilsk under the geological department.
Snezhnogorsk could have another name
On May 17, 1963, the first builders arrived on the banks of the Hantaika river, where the Ust-Hantaiskaya hydroelectric power station construction was to begin - eight people in all.
Alcohol prohibited at Ust-Hantai hydroelectric power station construction
The Snezhnogorsk settlement (the most remote district of Norilsk) owes its appearance to the Ust-Hantai hydroelectric power station.
Norilsk swimming pool was first world Arctic one
Norilsk has always been assigned the role of the front line, from where the development of the Arctic took place.
40 years ago Kayerkan and Talnah became cities
The decree on the Kayerkan and Talnah workers' settlements transformation into cities of regional subordination was signed on November 30, 1982.