#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the first quarter of 2025, a tourist visitor center should start working in Norilsk. The estimated cost of the project will be 80 million rubles.
Now the design estimates development is underway, it is financed by Nornickel.
“The total preliminary amount of financing for construction and equipment is estimated at 80 million rubles. Funding is planned to be allocated from the municipality budget.
We set an ambitious task for ourselves, and I am sure that we will be able to realize it – to create the best visitor center in Russia. To do this, we have a unique building with high ceilings and columns on the central street of the city – Leninsky prospect, 16”, said vice mayor of Norilsk Vladimir Barinov.
The visitor center will become multifunctional. In addition to the tourist reception area with an information desk, it will have space for exhibitions and expositions and an area for virtual tours. It will be possible to purchase any tourist products offered by local tour operators in the visitor center.
The Taimyr Reserves directorate recently completed the construction of a visitor center on lake Lama: the protected area is ready to welcome tourists. The new AZRF resident will build the first camp site with boathouses in Norilsk. Earlier, extreme sportsman Bogdan Bulychev spoke about his experience of traveling to the Arctic.
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Victor Borodin, Photo: Nikolay Shchipko