#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In March 1954, at the City Council session, the first deputies demanded an increase in the number of garbage bins and their timely cleaning and disinfection, putting things in order on the territories of the camp departments, as well as at shops, and monitoring the water intake from reservoirs.
Among the measures that were supposed to improve the city sanitary condition, items appeared that talked about equipping a tanker truck to transport hypochlorite to disinfect the city, building a sump on the infectious diseases hospital territory, and the possibility of establishing bonuses for janitors for exemplary maintenance of their territories.
The result of this work was new sanitary rules for Norilsk. For example, they ordered the heads of all enterprises and institutions of the city to equip on their territory in each estate special garbage pits, trash cans, regularly clean them and disinfect them. Sewage and rubbish had to be disposed of in designated landfill sites. A place for a garbage and sewage dump was installed in the area of block No. 80 (now there is Hantayskaya street).
According to the sanitary rules of households, where there was no sewerage and internal bathrooms, they had to “equip cesspool-type latrines in estates, near residential buildings, keep them clean and tidy, and prevent cesspools from overflowing”.
Back then, in 1954, the water supply system in the Norilsk flats had not yet been properly put into operation, although there were bathrooms in all new buildings, so the Norilsk people took water from street standpipes.
The new sanitary rules strictly ordered the public utilities department to “repair and equip all water standpipes, entrances and passages to them and constantly monitor their technical and sanitary condition”.
The mass media also joined the fight for cleanliness. The newspaper was charged with publishing at least two articles on a quarterly basis, and the radio – broadcasting lectures.
In the History Spot’s previous publication, we talked about Urvantsev’s telegram distorted by radiotelegraphy.
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Text: Svetlana Ferapontova, Photo: Nornickel Polar Division archive
