Miracles and nothing more! Why were residential buildings built without balconies in Norilsk?
Norilsk is a city of contrasts and undoubtedly a beautiful place. There is something so alluring about it that you won’t feel in many other Russian cities. Having stopped by Norilsk for even an hour, you will immediately get the feeling that something is wrong here, and then it will suddenly dawn on you - the houses were built without balconies. Yes, yes, typical Khrushchev buildings look very non-standard and even a little strange.
It is very unusual for a visitor to the city to see simple high-rise buildings, of which there are millions not only in Russia, but also in the CIS countries, but with absolutely no balconies. What kind of feature is this? Why did developers in Norilsk decide not to add them and why then cut them off where they already existed?
Norilsk houses - where did the balconies go?
Khrushchev buildings without a single balcony are definitely an unusual situation, but you won’t see this in any other city. Standard five-story buildings look very strange, and in some places it is clear that there were extensions, but for some reason they were dismantled. Moreover, the buildings were built in the 40s and 50s. still with them, but then the buildings were erected without them.
Norilsk was founded in the 30s, and received city status only after the war. It was at that moment that mass construction began. However, in this young city, the construction time was simply as short as possible, if not even record-breaking. Normally, the team should have built a full-fledged building in two weeks, but at that time they did it in a minimum of 7 days.The absence of balconies in the projects greatly facilitated this task, since both the volume of work and, in fact, time were reduced.
The reason was also the fact that Norilsk is a northern city, and the number of residents reached more than 150 thousand people. Moreover, there was snow here for about 8 months, and in such a merciless and harsh climate, there seemed to be no need for a balcony. Well, who will dry clothes on the street or want to drink a cup of coffee while admiring the street?! Perhaps there were not only few such daredevils, but most likely they were completely absent.
Then another argument was “born”: since the temperature in Norilsk changed sharply, and the wind did not spare anyone here, the already built balconies simply began to collapse, which, of course, was completely unsafe. After several cases of collapse, they began to simply cut them off where they already were.
In the center of Norilsk you can see several houses after reconstruction with so-called balconies, or rather their imitation. There is a functioning door here, which is covered from the outside with bars.
So Norilsk was left without balconies. True, when nine-story buildings began to be built in the city, the design already included built-in loggias.
And on Laureatev 41, kv 49, where I lived with my parents since the house was built, all the balconies are made of iron. It’s not clear how long they don’t fall during acid rain)))
Early Brezhnevka and Khrushchevo buildings throughout the country were sometimes built WITHOUT A BALCONY.
There were balconies in all five-story buildings on Leninsky Prospekt. look at photos from previous years. There were balconies on 9 floors. see old photos of Norilsk.
Complete nonsense. They write just to write...
There have always been and still are balconies.
You are confusing balconies with loggias (look up the difference on the internet)… So in Norilsk there are loggias, but no balconies…
There are balconies! In a five-story building behind the registry office, for example, I have an apartment there. On the mountain in a nine-story building there was also an apartment with a balcony, not a loggia!!! Don't write nonsense! Just to write. He stopped by for an hour and was impressed by the lack of balconies)) He’s all impressionable))) Nothing else impressed him in our harsh city))) For an hour…. this is not about Norilsk!
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And in our northern city there are several 9-story buildings, in which for some reason the balconies start only from the 6th floor. Why - no one knows. My classmate lives in such a house on the 5th floor
And not only in Norilsk! In Moscow, in Medvedkovo, Otradny and the Botanical Garden microdistricts, a great many five-story panel houses have been built with garbage chutes in the apartments, but without a single balcony on all sides of the houses. Nowadays, many have already been demolished, especially on Shakalsky Proezd, st. Polyarnaya, and st. Dezhnev, and in their place 28-story high-rises were built, but they still stand somewhere.
The author, “Khrushchev” and “Soviet construction” are not identical concepts. Nine-story buildings are more like “Brezhnevka” buildings (but this jargon has not gone down among the people).
As for those very boxes from the time of Nikita Sergeevich, then, for example, the K-7 series in most cases had no balconies.
There are balconies and there aren’t!
The city is cool, the first impression is snow like in a fairy tale!!! and from distant childhood!
Lived in Norilsk from 1986 to 1997 Metallurgists 8. While still a boy, he helped his Father convert the balcony into a closed loggia, in 1987. Later, Father helped his aunt and uncle to do the same on the embankment. Urvantseva 23k1
There are balconies in nine-story buildings. And not only in them.