Norilsk and Dudinka from a height

Often I see posts on Yap of our cities, which were removed from the bird's eye view. In order not to break the tradition, today I want to show you the photos of the city of Norilsk and Dudinka and introduce (who do not know / not seen) with their architecture. The citizens of these towns Fill your photos.
Tells us will Stepanov Glory:

"At the beginning of June, I again visited Norilsk - one of the largest cities located in the Arctic Circle. It is surprising that in June there is still snow and drifts even found as high as a man's height. Another feature is the polar day - is when the sun goes in a circle, without going beyond the horizon. In this feature, collected photos taken during a helicopter flight from Norilsk to Dudinka. The uniqueness and the severity of these places you can judge for yourself. »

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Norilsk - a city in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, 90 km to the east of the Yenisei. His appearance, he is obliged to build the world's largest mining and metalproducing plant.



Norilsk - the second largest in terms of population in the world city, located in the Arctic Circle after Murmansk.

Total in Norilsk industrial region is home to more than 170 thousand people. It is surprising that in spite of the harsh climate, living here is not "shift workers" and generations of families who are not going to go anywhere. And the climate is really harsh - winter temperature reaches -50 ° C.



In the city there are polar days and polar nights. Polar day lasts about 2 months (the sun goes around the circle without touching the horizon), and the polar night lasts about 1, 5 months old (the streets of complete darkness, and the light does not turn off).



The front entrance to the city - "calling card" of Norilsk.



Architecture Norilsk formed under the influence of two main factors: firstly, the feature of the construction of buildings on permafrost soils and secondly, existing types of projects.



Time has shown that virtually all of the "old town" and the building "Stalinist architecture" became uninhabitable. This has led to a rethinking of construction on permafrost soils. In particular, as the destruction of buildings in Norilsk happened and because of the collapse of the housing sector in the 1990s.



Districts clearly divided time building



Leninsky Prospect - the main street of Norilsk.

It takes almost the entire central area of ​​the city - from October Square to the Square of Metallurgists.



Oktyabrskaya Square

The architecture of many buildings in Norilsk traced stylistic similarities with the architecture of Leningrad / St. Petersburg - it is explained by the fact that participated in the construction of Norilsk Leningrad architects.



Street Krasnoyarsk



Hotel "Norilsk»



District number 10



Shopping and sports and entertainment complex "Arena-Norilsk»



Long Lake, used as a cooling pool for Norilsk TPP.



Norilsk Polar Drama Theater named after Vladimir Mayakovsky



Bus



Mount Schmidt



Nickel plant in the "old town»

Enterprises Norilsk Combine carried toxic emissions into the atmosphere in large quantities, which resulted in the ecological situation in the city is catastrophic.



Kayerkan

Norilsk District, which had the status of the city from 1982 to 2005, is located 20 km. from Norilsk. It was formed thanks to the open coal mine here.



Further development of the village Kayerkan was associated with the construction and the start of operation of the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant.



Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant. BI Kolesnikov



Located on the plateau of hope at the site of the former airport, 12 km from Norilsk.



Plant processes all the nickel and pyrrhotite concentrates of Talnakh concentrating plant, a part of the Norilsk nickel concentrate processing plant and the entire volume of copper concentrate Nickel Plant.



The structure consists of three production NMP - hydrometallurgical (GMF), pyrometallurgical (PHC) and the production of oxygen.



Spray ponds



Used for cooling the surface of melting units.



Finished products of the plant are: matte, copper anodes and elementary sulfur.



Feinstein sent for further processing at the Nickel Plant and Plant "Severonikel" anode copper - by Copper Plant.



Copper Plant

Processes copper concentrates Norilsk and Talnakh Concentrators and copper anodes from the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant.



The plant produces about 300 thousand tons of electrolytic copper per year. In addition, the finished products of the Copper Plant is sulfuric acid and sulfur.



Eviction Alykel village - a former military pilots village. Following the withdrawal of the squadron he became uninhabited.



Residential education Oganer



Norilsk TPP-1



Bridge on the River Norilsk connecting Norilsk and Talnakh road and rail-links.



Mine "October" and "Taimyr" near the Talnakh



Domestic Airport "Valёk»



Villas (though in fact it Hostels and these cottages look like Norilsk)

Winter in these parts lasts 268 days a year!



Tundra



Dudinka

Seaport lower Yenisei, which Norilsk connected by roads and railways (with other cities of the Russian Federation there is no land connection). It is the northernmost international seaport in Russia and the largest in Siberia.



Dudinka - the world's only port is flooded every year during spring break.



The main regional transport hub, providing vital functions throughout the district and the Norilsk industrial region, through the port of export of products takes the Polar Division of JSC "MMC" Norilsk Nickel ".



The capacity of berths - 25 ths. Tons per day. The annual turnover of the port about 3 million. Tons.



Berths flooded during spring tide, in this regard, there is a complete evacuation of equipment and goods for flood-free mark of 20 m.



Container handling at "zero" berth



Summer navigation is 130 days, from June to October. Winter navigation is provided by wiring icebreaker fleet of transport vessels.



Ships and barges on the roads



Barge with containers and vehicles



Here's a he - June in the north.

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