Norilsk Nickel Opens Tourist Center in Taimyr

The visitor center for tourists in the remote village of Ust-Avam in the Taimyr Peninsula consists of a main building, accommodation buildings, and two chums (raw-hide tents). The construction of tourist infrastructure facilities is part of a program to support indigenous minorities of the North that has been implemented by Norilsk Nickel in Taimyr since 2020.
Over the past five years, the tourist flow to Taimyr has increased fivefold. The occupation of the indigenous peoples - the Dolgans and the Nganasans - is commercial hunting, fishing, as well as dressing leather. The opening of the visitor center is expected to create new jobs for the villagers and become a cultural and educational center for the local people. And tourists will get a chance to enjoy the Arctic nature and get to know the traditional way of living of indigenous minorities better.
In addition to the visitor center, more than 30 new houses have already been built in the village under Norilsk Nickel’s program to rehouse the local residents from their dilapidated houses, a paramedic and obstetric center has been fit with medical equipment, and a modular bathing complex has been put into operation.