Severny Gorod media company turns 25
The company is celebrating a quarter of a century of broadcasting in ...
History
First Norilsk mayor was woman
Zoya Tumanishvili alone represented the entire Norilsk government for eight years - ...
Tech students lived in school building
The Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical college (now Polar State University) building was ...
Norilsk Arctica was first ice palace in Krasnoyarsk region
First, Norilsk design office was instructed to develop only a hockey pavilion ...
Until 19th century Western scientists did not believe in permafrost existence
The first permafrost descriptions were made back in the 17th century
Taimyr was science fiction novels scene more than once
Many Soviet era science fiction novels were set in the Arctic in ...
In 1950-60s cotton balls held in Norilsk
The main place for summer recreation in those years was Komsomolsky park ...
Norilsk had its own spontaneous private dwellings sector
Makeshift barracks clung to each other, forming entire districts that resembled favelas ...
Settlements around Norilsk actively burned in 1960s
In the 1950s, Norilsk was surrounded by four dozen small settlements. They ...