The guests of the Central House of Writers were Norilsk residents of all generations. The meeting on the occasion of the combine’s golden anniversary was opened by a famous poet Robert Rozhdestvensky, at that time secretary of the USSR Writers Union board. One of the first before the guests of the Central House of Writers was a writer Evgeny Ryabchikov. He was joined by another former Norillag prisoner, an artist of the Second Polar Theater, Georgy Zhzhenov, and a former Norilsk schoolboy Vladislav Piavko performed arias from his repertoire at the Bolshoi Theater for fellow countrymen.
Norilsk-1985 was represented by the director of the Norilsk mining and metallurgical industry Boris Kolesnikov with representatives of the main enterprises of the combine.
There was also a concert in which a humor performer Arkady Arkanov, public favorites Alexander Shirvindt and Mikhail Derzhavin and other celebrities participated.
Two photo exhibitions met the guests in the lobby of the Central House of Writers.
Text: Varvara Sosnovskaya, Photo: Nornickel Polar Branch archive
