We gather the events of Nizhny Novgorod into the histories of buildings, streets, people and companies. Every fact has a source, every story has a sequel.
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Is a residential neighborhood in the center of Nizhny Novgorod that took shape in the 1920s…
The Gagarin Avenue Bypass is a highway in Nizhny Novgorod, in design and under construction…
A sandy island within the city limits of Nizhny Novgorod on the Oka River , stretching along…
The Oka Cable Car is a municipal passenger transport facility under construction that is meant…
Solomon Aykazovich Apoyan is a Nizhny Novgorod physician and politician, a deputy…
Nazarova Margarita Petrovna was a Soviet singer, film actress, tiger trainer, and circus…
Anton Leonidovich Maksimov is a Nizhny Novgorod surgeon, a cardiovascular…
8 stories this week8× the usual
Solomon Aykazovich Apoyan is a Nizhny Novgorod physician and politician…
8 stories this weekfirst time in a month
Aleksandr Ivanovich Bastrykin is a Russian statesman and the Chairman…
9 stories this week5.9× the usual
Oleg Aleksandrovich Kondrashov is a Nizhny Novgorod businessman and municipal…
7 stories this week5.8× the usualWalk the city with a story
From the stone kremlin of 1500 to the cable car above the Volga: the Stroganov church, the Nizhny Novgorod fair, the All-Russian Exhibition of 1896, the Chkalov staircase and the Strelka. At the Dmitrievskaya Tower the camera flies in to its three-dimensional model.
A century and a half ago Andrey Karelin and Maxim Dmitriev photographed Nizhny Novgorod on glass plates. The camera stands where the photographer stood and shows the cathedrals, descents and river crossings that are gone.
A circuit of the walls of the Nizhny Novgorod kremlin: thirteen towers, five square gate towers and eight round battle towers. A secret passage to the Pochaina, a seventeen-hour clock, and a tower brought down by a landslide and rebuilt two and a half centuries later.
Routes through the encyclopedia
The publications that write about the city: newspapers, portals, agencies and television channels of Nizhny Novgorod and the region, measured every month for who covers the agenda and how quickly
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Nizhny Novgorod websites that no longer exist: what they were, who made them, what survives in the web archive
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The historic city on the banks of the Oka and the Volga: the fair side and the merchant lower town, in tsarist, Soviet and present-day times
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Members of the city Duma and the regional Legislative Assembly
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Over the past century and a half the streets, squares and lanes of Nizhny Novgorod have changed their names…
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