Regions of Russia: Exhibition “History of Russia in Photographs. Norilsk” is mounted in Krasnoyarsk

Unique NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs) albums from the State Archive of the Russian Federation, photographs from the collection of “Moscow House of Photography” Museum and “Nornikel” archives have built up the exposition “History of Russia in Photographs. Norilsk”. The exhibition, timed to coincide with 65th anniversary of Norilsk, is underway in the Surikov State Art Museum in Krasnoyarsk until August 5.

The exhibition showcases pictures of the classic master of Soviet photography – Vsevolod Tarasevich  and modern photographers – Grigory Yaroshenko and Ivan Mikhailov, about 130 photographs in total.

Visitors of the exhibition will have an opportunity to discover the story of how Norilsk, one of the world’s northernmost cities, a unique industrial city 300 km north of the Polar Circle, began and developed. The exposition will highlight the geology exploration of Taimyr’s ore deposits led by a well-known geologist Nikolay Urvantsev in the 1920s, and the beginning of one of the most large-scale and complicated project of Stalin’s industrial revolution in the 1930s – construction of the Norilsk plant. 

The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (ММАМ) and Nornikel have been long-term partners, that teamed up to launch “History of Russia in Photographs” project, which also features photographs from the collections of the State Archive of the Russian Federation. The result of the cooperation is a unique portal www.russiainphoto.ru, four volumes of “History of Russia in Photographs” publication, and series of exhibitions in different cities of Russia.