Boris Kolesnikov headed Norilsk Combine for 15 years
This term was a record among all the Norilsk’s city-forming enterprise’s heads.
History
Ivan Iyevlev was first to touch Norilsk nickel
Like many specialists of the 1940s, the future Combine’s chief metallurgist was ...
Two-story buildings stood opposite Zapolyarnik stadium
There was the so-called 17th quarter.
Vladimir Zverev came to audit but stayed to rule
He was the Norilsk Combine’s head from 1948 to 1954.
Over a dozen minerals named after Norilsk geologists
There’s Godlevskite on the world list of minerals.
Club-theater planned instead of grocery store
The building was supposed to stand on Gvardeiskaya square instead of the ...
First Norilsk geologists were rivals
Vorontsov suspected Urvantsev of sabotage.
First book about Norilsk published by non-Norilsk printing house in 1946
The essays’ collection Northern Lights was published.
Norilsk leader was book character prototype
Igor Aristov came to Norilsk in 1961 after graduating from the Irkutsk ...