Nansen Expedition Day IX - Dudinka and Norilsk
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The sign on the wall reads: "Protectors of the past, creators of the future." -
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The northern outlet of the Yenisey River is so wide that you hardly can see land in the horizon. -
Small village on the bank of the Yenisey River. -
Oil terminal on the bank of the Yenisey River. -
Densely cranes at the port of Dudinka by the Yenisey River. -
Dudinka is the main transshipment port for Norilsk-Nickel. -
Dudinka is home to four different groups of indigenous peoples on the Taimyr Peninsula. -
Director Vera Cherkasova is proudly showing the TNK-BP sponsored in-school test equipment for oil-drilling at the Taimyr College in Dudinka. -
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"Dudinka - Town, port, destiny" reads this poster on the wall. -
Officer on duty at check-point control. -
Taimyr Peninsula forms the northernmost part of the Eurasian mainland. -
Memorial of the Norilag system of GULAG labor camps. Prisoners built the railroad across the tundra from Norilsk. The plan was to build railroad all the way to connecting it with the Salkehard railway on the banks of the Ob River. Construction stopped after Stalin died in 1953. -
Around two million tons of air-pollution annualy places Norilsk as the most dirty town in Russia. -
The mosque in Norilsk. -
Main street in Norilsk. -
Pollution from the nickel plant kills nature tens of kilometers away from Norilsk on the tundra of the Taimyr Peninsula. -
Memorial of the Norilag system of GULAG labor camps. -
Lenin statue downtown Norilsk. -
"Ulitsa Nansena" - the street named after Fridtjof Nansen in Norilsk. -
Talnakh is a mining town located some 25 kilometers north of Norilsk. -
Talnakh. -
"Nadezhda" is the youngest of the plants in Norilsk. Nickel converter matte from this plant is shipped to the Severonickel plant in Monchgorsk on the Kola Peninsula where pure nickel is produced. -
The toxic cocktail found in the air includes heavy metals like copper, nickel, cobalt and lead as well as gases like nitrogen and carbon oxides, sulfur dioxide, phenols and hydrogen sulfide. -
"Honourable citizens of Norilsk" on display in the city center. -
Pollutant concentration levels exceed health recommendations, but little information is made available.
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