Norilsk became a city in 1953
On July 15, 1953, by the Decree of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet ...
History
Komsomolskaya square was market one in 1960s
Before the Culture Palace opening, trade pavilions were set up in the ...
Norilsk Culture Palace took ten years to be build
The first projects of the Norilsk combine’s Culture Palace appeared in the ...
Tickets to first Norilsk cinema sold out instantly
Villages appeared on the site of the camp departments, and their clubs ...
First Norilsk buses carried passengers to industrial site
In the 1950s, the main difficulty in the work of passenger transport ...
Norilsk residents are sure that northern childhood is special
Only northern children had and still have days off at school due ...
Biggest shortages were ordinary household items: pots, paper and soap
Clothes and fabric pieces were given out as a reward to the ...
Chlorine-cobalt workshop’s legendary head Izosim Chalkin
Chalkin was among the first students of the Norilsk technical school.
Norilsk metallurgist invented high-speed melting
Alexander Sheremetov is one of the few metallurgists who have become an ...