TASS, July 6. The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM), the Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) Company and Krasnoyarsk’s Surikov Art Museum will present in Krasnoyarsk an exhibition, devoted to development of the Norilsk city, Nornickel’s press service said.
"The exhibition’s visitors will see the story of how Norilsk, one of the northernmost cities in the world, began and developed," the press service said. "The city is 300km north of the Polar Circle."
"The exposition will show how in the 1920s, a well-known geologist Nikolai Urvantsev led the beginning geology exploration of Taimyr’s ore deposits, and how in the 1930s began a most large-scale and complicated project of Stalin’s industrial revolution - construction of the Norilsk plant," the press service added.
Photos for the exhibition come from archives of NKVD (which later on was called KGB), the State Archive, the Moscow House of Photography, as well as from Nornickel’s archives. The exposition includes works by a prominent Soviet photographer Vsevolod Tarasevich.
MAMM and Nornickel have brought the exhibition to Krasnoyarsk as a present to the local people. The exhibition is devoted to Norilsk’s 65th anniversary and the company’s Day. The exposition at Krasnoyarsk’s Surikov Art Museum will be open from July 13 to August 5, 2018.