In 1940s power engineers made first Norilsk fountain
In the early 1940s, when Norilsk was listed only as a village, ...
History spot
“The spirit of fighting with nature force gave us strength”
In the 1940s, the bulk of Norilsk's population lived in what is ...
“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 ...
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, ...
Norilsk TPP’s whistle heard 50 kilometers from Norilsk
When the combine was just being built, almost the only “means of ...
How did first inhabitants see Norilsk future?
History has preserved an interesting manuscript - in the 1940s it was ...
“Discharge for intentional harm to the boss’s health!”
In the middle of the last century, active geological exploration was carried ...