MOSCOW, November 7. /TASS/. The program to renovate Norilsk, which the Norilsk Nickel Company implements jointly with federal and local authorities, gave an impetus to development of tourism on the Taymyr Peninsula, the company's First Vice President Nikolay Utkin said at the Creating the Future symposium.

"The renovation of Norilsk, which we are implementing together with the Krasnoyarsk Region's government and the government of the Russian Federation, has marked beginning of tourism on the Taymyr. In fact, without it, there could not be tourism, without the development of greater Norilsk the territory could not be attractive," he said.

When visiting the Taymyr, tourists will learn about culture of the North's low-numbered peoples, about life in the Arctic. "Norilsk is the northernmost metropolis in the world with such a population, and of course, it has the most extensive renovation and landscaping program, and the company [Norilsk Nickel] intends to create most comfortable conditions both for living and for tourism," he added.

The Creating the Future symposium ran in Moscow on November 4-6. It was the first event at the Rossiya National Center, organized in compliance with an order by President Vladimir Putin to preserve the heritage of the International Russia EXPO at Moscow's VDNKh Exhibition Center. TASS was the symposium's information partner.