For all thirteen years that Sergey lived in Norilsk, such an event happened only twice. It was called, translated from the local Nganasan language - "Black Blizzard", and in a simple way - a snow hurricane. It is rather difficult to describe in words what it is - it had to be seen and heard. The first time Sergey encountered this natural phenomenon, or rather its consequences, was in 1957. The blizzard raged for three days without stopping, at which time everyone sat at home and looked forward to the end of this scourge. On the street was polar night and the day was practically no different from the night. Behind the double windows, covered almost to the top with sawdust for warmth, everything hummed and rumbled. It was announced on the local radio that due to the low air temperature of -58 degrees of cold, all classes at the school are cancelled. All surface work has also been cancelled.

After everything calmed down, Sergei and his sister began to get ready for school, but there was no way out of the entrance of the two-story barracks. My father had to put up a window on the second floor in the entrance, and then, until the adults cleared the snow at the entrance, everyone climbed through the window. When Sergei was on the street, an amazing sight presented itself to his eyes. Everything around was white from the swept snow. Half of the roofs from the houses lay to the side, many entrance doors, especially those that were without springs, were vomited with meat and carried away in an unknown direction. The village of Zapadny was covered with snow for six meters, and the two-story barracks became one-story. In the afternoon, the entire able-bodied population of the village was expelled to clear the streets. The electric lighting poles had become quite low, and the wires, where they remained, hung at chest level.

The second time, Sergei faced a hurricane in Norilsk itself. Naturally, in a city with large houses, this no longer felt like that. As always, Sergey went to the first shift at school, as always, it was snowy, howling, and dark all around. When he came home and turned on the TV, he heard a message that in the morning there was a hurricane in the city with a wind of up to sixty meters per second ... The most annoying thing was that it was possible not to go to school that day walk. The local news reported that at the mine, the wind turned over and threw a bulldozer into the quarry, and in another place turned over a bus with passengers. In the city, hundreds of square meters of roofs were blown away, dozens of entrance doors were torn out, and there were even deaths. People were blown away by the wind into the tundra, and one man was killed by a three-liter jar of frozen pickled tomatoes that fell from a balcony. What a stupid death...

The next day, the entire population of the city, instead of working, went to a community work day to clear the streets. Later, the news reported that the wind had driven away from the city and covered with snow an electric train consisting of eight railway cars. Only after they began to clear the railway track with the help of powerful equipment, the electric train was found in a snowdrift, one and a half kilometers from the city ...

Norilsk is one of the most remote settlements Russia. Talnakh and Kayerkan were once its satellite cities, but now they have become remote areas. Here is a separate Railway, and other cities can only be reached by air or water. Therefore, the locals feel like residents of the island, and the rest of the country is called the "mainland". Children who were born and study in these harsh places told the Sib.fm correspondent about their Everyday life feelings and plans for the future.

Ekaterina Grabenko, 11th grade, Kayerkan

The program itself at school is quite difficult, but I learn everything from the first time. It is much easier for all schoolchildren to study in autumn and spring, because in winter we have a polar night. The body goes into hibernation, thoughts are constantly occupied with sleep. Without sunlight, vitamins cannot be absorbed, so weakness is felt throughout the body.

A wide variety of sections and circles work: swimming, drawing, figure skating, dancing, basketball and many others. I managed to try all of the above in ten years of school, but I did all this for no more than two years. I was most interested in the theatrical circle, in which I studied for about six years and successfully graduated from it last year. Now I sometimes attend step aerobics when I have free time.

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Norilsk itself is a medium-sized city, so the remoteness is noticeable not from cities, but from the mainland. Living on the peninsula, we are, as it were, in a limited world. There is a double feeling from flights to other cities. On the one hand, this is good, since the workers of the combines are paid for the road, and on the other hand, there is no variety of modes of transport. It's either a plane or a ship. Moreover, the path along the river is open only in summer.

Many people on the "mainland" envy the working northerners because of the high salaries, not realizing that here they have to pay big money for what they can pluck in the garden. But in general, in material terms, we live well. What can not be said about the spiritual. Especially about spiritual world my peers. I think that modern youth there is a lack of cultural influence, and this is not only a problem for my city. Throughout the country, there is a reluctance of children and adolescents to plunge into the world of art. Books, paintings and classical music are alien to them. In my opinion, this problem should be solved first of all.

Ksenia Otryvankina, 7th grade, Talnakh

In the Russian language, we are trying to cover more topics per day, because we know in advance that some study days will be lost. On a polar night, you just don’t want to get up to school, but everything else is fine. IN primary school we went through the features of our climate on the outside world, I remember that there were many presentations about the northern lights and the polar night.

Like me

I have enough of everything here and generally like living in Talnakh. After school, I would like to study and then return to Norilsk again. Every summer we still leave Norilsk, we have relatives in Nizhny Novgorod and Sochi.

We quite often go to the center of Norilsk, where the largest shopping center Galaktika is located. There's enough here. We go to the camp all the time. On Saturday we will go to Mount Sokol, which is located behind the Red Stones.

Photo provided by the press service of the Norilsk Nickel company

Yesenia Peeva, 11th grade, Kayerkan

TOSH is a regional youth movement "Labor teams of schoolchildren", engaged in vocational guidance for children

The day at school starts at 9:00, lessons end at 15:00-16:00. After the lessons there are elective classes, in my case it is chemistry and biology. When I leave for school, it's dark outside, when I go from school it's also dark. This is during the polar night, and on the polar day, on the contrary, it is always light. We, unfortunately, have little vegetation, parks where one could take a walk, sit on a bench and talk with friends, places for leisure activities. Detachments of volunteers and Toshevites are trying to fix this and plant greenery on the territory every summer.

In my free time, I also do volunteer work. In our NPR [Norilsk Industrial District - approx. Sib.fm] is the Young Guard of United Russia, I am in its ranks. We attend various events, provide assistance to veterans and people in need. This is our social life.

In general, there are enough places in Norilsk where you can occupy yourself. We have a House of Children's Creativity, which houses various circles and sections. There are also sports sections in the House of Sports, Skating Rink and Youth Sports School. For example, I attend classes in step aerobics.

Photo provided by the press service of the Norilsk Nickel company

Our youth gathers at the Youth Center, at the "box" in Kayerkan - this is a football field. There is also a three-story Arena shopping center in Norilsk. They usually walk there in cold weather. There is a water park, roller and skate parks. And in Kayerkan we go to the skating rink or visit each other.

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But our distance is noticeable. It takes four hours to fly to Moscow, and it takes a week to sail to the nearest city by boat. So during a blizzard, it is difficult for us to deliver food, as the weather is non-flying. In March was black blizzard Nobody went to work, everyone was at home. In Norilsk, the term "black blizzard" means a blizzard, in which the wind speed exceeds forty meters per second, and the blizzard itself turns into a hurricane. It is believed that the blackest "black snowstorm" in Norilsk was recorded in January 1957.

But we have the Northern Lights. Last year it appeared more often than usual, bright and large. It was very beautiful, especially when it was snowing in large flakes. My friends and I loved to just walk down the street and look at the sky.

Photo by Anton Unitsyn from the Sib.fm archive

Ilya Filatov, 7th grade, Talnakh

In the morning, starting from November, most schoolchildren, barely waking up, listen to 007.

There they can say in which classes the act is up to the ninth or eleventh. Many do not go to school then. This happens due to very strong winds, snowstorms, storms. Well, someone walks, no matter what, because they need to improve something in their studies. It happens that actuation is announced undeservedly, or not announced, although it should have been announced.

After listening to 007, you need to look out the window - the sky can be clear, the sun is shining, but you missed school.

And it happens that there is a wind, a hurricane, but there is no actuation.

Almost all of my extracurricular time is completely occupied. Previously, I attended a swimming pool, an aikido school, taekwondo, an art school in the piano class and courses at the same time. in English. I even had to give up something, everything is so tight. In addition, this year I have final exams at a music school.

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We often call each other and walk, there are many places where you can go. We walk around Talnakh, we find souvenir shops where everything is just super for boys: pistols, knives. I am very fond of weapons. In the fifth microdistrict, if you go up the mountain, you can see the former quarry. And now this lake is very beautiful, the seagulls are flying. This is one way. And in the other direction, not far from the school where I study, you go: tundra, tundra, river. There are almost no people, since the area there is not the most passable. Well, there is a source of spring water. Our village is not to be bypassed very quickly. It is on our mountain, and if you go from the very bottom, you can go for a very long time. Of course, the territory is not as big as in Norilsk, but you won't be able to get around quickly.

You have to go to the city for competitions. Sometimes we go to shopping centers, looking for something that is not here. Everyone is leaving Talnakh, Norilsk for the summer. For example, I go to my grandmother in the Moscow region, someone to Izhevsk, someone to Yekaterinburg.

Photo provided by the press service of the Norilsk Nickel company

Some of my classmates who love to play on the computer, and I, too, have a lack of Internet. Not only is the Internet very expensive, it is also very slow. I have a tariff of 500 megabytes for 500 rubles per month, everything else is paid - 10 rubles per megabyte. You won’t play any online games, only go to the site, perhaps. We play Counter-Strike and Battlefield online without the Internet. We have many of our game servers.

Alexey Logunov, 11th grade, Norilsk

The school day is arranged quite simply: at 9 in the morning the first lesson begins, if it is not zero, which starts at eight. Basically, everyone has six lessons and they end around three.

Activation is one of the favorite things of schoolchildren.

It is announced depending on the deterioration of weather conditions. From first to some class there. Let's say the activation for grade 11 cancels classes for all students. At the discretion of parents, students may not attend school on this day. But it is asked homework. In Norilsk, they promise to install fiber optics, but they still don't have it. Therefore, remote lessons via Skype are not possible.

We have a large shopping complex, where you can gather, take a walk, or just go in groups, couples, or something else. In summer, you can sit by Dolgogo Lake, although it is not a sea or a river, it is still something like a beach. If it is winter, then there is no problem to go to the camp site. Skiing is twenty-five kilometers from the city, so there is something to do.

Photo of Roman Goryachiy from Sib.fm archive

Polar night - this is how anyone likes it. Personally, I love sunlight, and the polar night brings a breakdown and a bad mood. When you look out the window at four o'clock, and it's dark there and there is no hope of a walk. And some, on the contrary, are satisfied with it, because it is more convenient to sleep. Of course, there is light, from 11 o'clock to three o'clock it will be relatively light.

There is such a phenomenon - a black blizzard, when, due to heavy snowfall and storms, nothing is visible ten to fifteen meters away. It is impossible to open your eyes and look around, the driver of the car must drive along the highway no faster than twenty kilometers per hour.

Twenty kilometers from the city, near Talnakh, there is Mount Otdelnaya. And if you walk two or three kilometers, you can get to the Red Stones. This is a waterfall, I personally visited it for the first time yesterday. It's very beautiful, crystal clear water. My friends and I did not just go to the waterfall itself, but decided to go to the mountain, then go along it towards Talnakh and go down the slope of the ski resort. That is, they have come a long way. We got there by bus, and then on our own to the base.

There is another place more beautiful than the Red Stones - Lama Lake. There is magnificent nature, very beautiful landscapes, the whole place is surrounded by mountains, a waterfall. For tourism, in my opinion, that's it.

The elements raged today so much that the passengers of the flight that arrived in Norilsk had to be taken out of the Alykel airport on all-terrain vehicles, since the 40-kilometer road from the airport was closed to other modes of transport in the morning, TASS reports. The airport is closed, several flights were canceled, some were redirected to alternate airports.

Norilsk - The largest city in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory with a population of about 150 thousand people. The airport is the main air harbor connecting the city and the Taimyr region with the rest of the country.

Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the traffic police were transferred to an enhanced mode of service. They make sure, in particular, that drivers do not freeze if the car suddenly stops in the middle of the road. To organize work in a snowstorm, a special headquarters has been created, 6 stationary heating points are working. 40 people and 19 pieces of equipment were involved on the roads to clear the snow. Authorities are asking residents not to leave their homes and offices unless absolutely necessary.

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Black blizzard is raging in Norilsk. People were taken from the airport to the city on all-terrain vehicles

Today, a snowstorm raged in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. A storm warning has been issued in Norilsk, the school day for schoolchildren has been shortened, and traffic of all types of transport is prohibited on the Norilsk-Kayerkan-Alykel highway. Employees of the traffic police and the Ministry of Emergency Situations continue to serve in bad weather.

Daria Korosteleva, a graduate of "", organized by the Snob project and the Northern City media company, talks about how she and her grandmother met with a "black blizzard"

I remembered my “black blizzard” for the rest of my life. 2016, a typical March day. I had to go to the theater studio. When I went there, the wind was not too strong. During the lesson, there was a buzz outside the window, but I did not pay attention to it, because for Norilsk this is a common thing. At some point, the teacher called me to the phone. I looked at my mobile and realized that I was about to get hit: ten missed from mom and seven from dad. My parents shouted that I would not get home - a storm warning was announced, a taxi could not be called. Having calmed down a little, dad told me to get dressed, he would come for me.

Then I thought: what kind of nonsense? I’m already 16, I’ll get there somehow myself, I’m no longer small. The guys who worked with me in the studio left, and I sat and waited for my father. He came and began to scold me. I was angry: how could I know that such a wind would rise? Yes, and I was sure that he and my mother were exaggerating the scale of the tragedy.

My house is in a place where the wind is always the strongest in the city. At first, my dad and I walked, grabbing lampposts and store doorknobs. But then the ascent began and we had to kneel - it was impossible to move vertically, the wind simply did not allow us to take a single step, we were blown away. At the same time, it seemed that we were completely alone on the street - there were neither people nor cars. The usual journey to the house, which took ten minutes, dragged on for at least half an hour.

“Finally, it’s over,” I thought when we entered the entrance. I didn’t see anything: my eyes were covered with snow, I couldn’t open them. We reached our floor intuitively. An angry mother was waiting for us near the door, but when she saw us like this, she said: “Thank God that you are alive.”

Lydia Korosteleva's story:

In the 1980s, during the "black blizzard" at the Norilsk CHPP, an accident occurred. The entire city was left without heat, and some houses were also without electricity. The windows were sealed with foil to somehow keep warm. There was no water on the floors above the second - the plumbing was frozen. Children were put on down jackets and put to sleep under two blankets. Electric stoves were turned on, candles were lit. Some people wanted to burn old furniture in the streets to somehow provide warmth. Shops worked for two or three hours in the morning and in the evening - you could buy only milk, bread and cereals. Those who needed to go to the plant went in a convoy of buses, but did not return back for several days: they worked two or three shifts and spent the night at work.

Once I went to the post office to call my relatives on the “mainland”, to tell them about the situation. Barely made it back. I had to cross the road, but the wind was so strong that I could not take a single step. She grabbed a lamppost and waited. After about ten minutes, I finally decided to cross the road, but the wind knocked me down at the very beginning of the journey, and then I just rolled. I looked around - the people behind me also fell and rolled. It's good that the cars did not drive in such weather.

That "black blizzard" lasted five days. Because of the accident, they wanted to take all the children out of the city. We even calculated how many flights are needed, but it still didn’t come to that.