Norilsk is the second largest city in the world in the world, located beyond the Arctic Circle after Murmansk. More than 170 thousand people live in the Norilsk industrial area. Surprisingly, despite the harsh climate, there are not "shift workers" here, but whole generations of families who are not going to leave anywhere. And the climate here is really severe - the temperature reaches -50 ° C in winter.
Norilsk is a city in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, 90 km east of the Yenisei.
His appearance is due to the construction of the world's largest mining and metal producing plant.
In the city there are polar days and polar nights. The polar day lasts about 2 months (the sun walks in a circle without touching the horizon), and the polar night lasts about 1.5 months (the streets are completely dark and the light does not turn off).
The main entrance to the city is Norilsk's "visiting card":
Leninsky Prospekt - the central street of Norilsk. It passes almost through the entire central district of the city - from the October Square to the Square of the Metallurgists:
October Square. In the architecture of many buildings in Norilsk, there is a stylistic similarity to the architecture of Leningrad / Petersburg - this is due to the fact that Leningrad architects participated in the construction of Norilsk:
The districts of the city are clearly divided by the time of building:
The architecture of Norilsk was formed under the influence of two main factors: firstly, the peculiarity of erecting buildings on permafrost and secondly, the existing standard projects:
Time has shown that practically the whole part of the "Old Town" and the buildings of "Stalinist architecture" became unfit for habitation. This led to a rethinking of the construction on permafrost. In particular, the destruction of buildings occurred in Norilsk and because of the collapse of utilities in the 1990s:
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