Construction works of this by-product coke plant situated in Norilsk started in 1947, and by the end of 1948 the plant was put into operation.
Here they produced coke.
A loader.
What’s left after a coke-oven battery.
The plant was the first by-product coke plant in the Soviet Union to work with non-ferrous metallurgy.
Traditionally, the plant consisted of all kinds of towers and passages.
The coke-oven battery.
This is where they would put coal into to heat it to 800 degrees Celsius.
The smelting rate in water-jacket furnaces was doubled…
While coke consumption almost halved.
Profile firebrick.
Сoal extracted in Norilsk is hard to coke. It contained 17.75% flue and 26.83% ash which made it necessary to clean coal before coking.
Time and climate are gradually reducing the constructions of the plant to ruins.
They used railways to unload coke.
Another tower.
That mount is called Baryernaya.
A top view.
Mount Gudchikha.
The roof of the coke-oven battery.
Cracking columns.
Apparently, these pipes were used to produce kerosine and diesel fuel.
Water or diesel fuel tanks.
Another gloomy tower.
That was all about the plant.
Some views of the plant from the side.
Location: Norilsk
via nordroden
Maybe this is why Norilsk is one of the most polluted places on earth. Still neat to see.
This place is gloomy because of idiots in power who could not keep a system in place that provided work, security, and quality for millions of men and women. They (the Government) were busy wasting money on imperialism and nationalism (defense); thus, the decay of a society seen in abandoned buildings and hollow lives.