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Mar 21, 2019 · Norilsk was designed in the 1930s by architects imprisoned in Stalin’s camps, and built by gulag prisoners. The earliest buildings are Stalinist in style. (Credit: Elena Chernyshova)
They were designed by Soviet railway engineer Mikhail Potapov. Norilsk was initially constructed using the forced labor of the inmates of the Norillag gulag camp (which was shut...
- Anna Sorokina
Jul 3, 2020 · Norilsk was built in Stalin's times by gulag prisoners. This gritty industrial city is a testament to their endurance both of the cruelty of Stalin's regime and of the harsh polar climate. There were no thoughts then on how to build to protect the environment, just to survive it.
- Diana Magnay
The first house in Norilsk. In 1921, during one of Urvantsev's expeditions, a log cabin was built at the northern foot of Mount Schmidt. [21] This hut is considered to be the first building in Norilsk. The cabin was later moved, and is now located near Norilsk Museum. It has the status of a historical monument. [22]
Jul 23, 2023 · Norilsk was founded at the end of the 1920s, but the official date of the city's foundation is traditionally held to be 1935, when the gulag labor camp known as Norillag was established and...
Jan 9, 2015 · Construction, primarily with prison labor, began in 1951 on streets of monumental buildings with designs that resembled the Soviet neoclassicism of Leningrad. Two years later, the Norilsk...
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Already in the mid-1950s, after Stalin’s death, a struggle against architectural excesses began and Norilsk ended up being full of typical “panel” buildings.
