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In the late 1940s, architects began to design a new city on the eastern shore of Lake Dolgoye, and Norillag prisoners started building work in 1951. In the summer of 1953, inmates from one of the Norillag camps, Gorlag, went on strike, sparking the Norilsk Uprising.
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
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)
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...
Norilsk, city, Krasnoyarsk kray (territory), central Russia, in the Rybnaya Valley amid the Putoran Mountains. Founded in 1935, Norilsk lies north of the Arctic Circle and is one of the world’s leading producing centres for nickel and platinum.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
It was built during the first geological expedition of Nikolay Urvantsev, who reported the discovery of a copper and nickel deposit on Rudnaya Mountain. Now it houses a museum with an exhibit on Urvantsev's life.
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Visitors stroll through the gulag memorial. Gulag prisoners built much of the Norilsk mining complex and labored in Norilsk's nickel and copper mines. At its peak Norillag housed more than 72,000 prisoners.
