billion from the budget of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, 81.3 billion from Norilsk Nickel's funds). Projects include renovation of the housing stock, repairs to infrastructure, and the relocation of residents to areas with more favorable living conditions. As of January 1, 2021, 8,064 families from Norilsk and Dudinka had purchased apartments and moved to the "mainland". Notable people People born in Norilsk: Vakha Albakov (born 1985), footballer Ahmed Anarbayev (born 1948), swimmer Alexander Auzan (born 1954), economist Andrey Bartenev (born 1965), artist Vladimir Bure (born 1950), swimmer Mikhail Chachba (1930-1967), diver Oksana Cherkasova (born 1951), animator Oleksandr Glotov (born 1953), Ukrainian journalist Leonid Ilyichov (born 1948), swimmer Vladislav Karapuzov (born 2000), footballer Mikhail Popkov (born 1964), prolific serial killer Yuriy Prodan (born 1959), politician Viktor Semchenkov (born 1942), swimmer Alexander Shikov (1948-2013), materials scientist Sergey Smagin (born 1958), chess grandmaster Evgeny Solovyov (born 1992), ice hockey player Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, political activist and member of Pussy Riot Viktor Tomenko (born 1971), statesman Dmitri Torbinski (born 1984), footballer Andrey Tveryankin (born 1967), Azerbaijani futsai player Natalia Yurchenko (born 1965), gymnast Ivan V. Zaitsev (born 1975), Russian-born Kazakhstani water polo player Twin cities Norilsk is twinned with two other cities: Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory Nesebar, Bulgaria See also Colony Human outpost Mill town Tunguska Basin References Citations General sources "Norilskaya golgofa" "Memorial", regional Branch "Siberia", publisher: "Klaretianum", Krasnoyarsk, 2002 External links Official website of Norilsk MMC Norilsk Nickel "Would You Live in This Toxic, Closed-Off City?", video profile of city by The Atlantic (2017) 1935 establishments in the Soviet Union Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union Cities and towns in Krasnoyarsk Krai Norilsk Urban Okrug Closed cities Monotowns in Russia Populated places established in the 1920s Populated places of Arctic Russia Road-inaccessible communities of Krasnoyarsk Krai Socialist planned cities North Siberian Lowland