Nikolay Urvantsev
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Urvantsev was a Soviet geologist and explorer. He was born in the town of Lukoyanov in the Lukoyanovsky Uyezd of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire to the famil
Monument to N. N. Urvantsev in Norilsk
Norilsk
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Norilsk is an industrial closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km east of the Yenisey River and 1,500 km north of Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk is 30
Nikolay Urvantsev
…the Russian Empire to the family of a merchant. He graduated from the Tomsk Engineering Institute in 1918. Urvantsev was among the discoverers of the Norilsk coal basin and Norilsk copper-nickel ore region in 1919-1922 and was among the founders of Norilsk town. In 1922, while leading a geological expedition…
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Russia, Krasnojarsk, Norilsk, Норильск, Талнахская ул., 10 Талнахская ул., 10 WMID2158272
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The first house in Norilsk