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Nazarova Margarita Petrovna was a Soviet singer, film actress, tiger trainer, and circus…
The Gagarin Avenue Bypass is a motor road being designed and built since 2024 in Nizhny…
Is a joint Russian-Belarusian project for the production of trams and electric buses…
Is the governor's initiative budgeting project for Nizhny Novgorod Region , which operates…
The authorized bank for managing the region's budgetary funds
The friendly match between the national football teams of Russia and Nigeria was a game played…
Outstanding Soviet and Russian stage and screen actor, People's Artist…
15 stories this weekfirst time in a month
Yakovlev Sergey Vladimirovich is a Nizhny Novgorod government official…
21 stories this week8.6× the usual
The authorized bank for managing the region's budgetary funds
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Gleb Sergeyevich Nikitin is a Russian statesman and political figure, Governor…
64 stories this week2.3× 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.
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The Kremlin, the upper and lower town, streets, squares, ramps and demolished churches of old Nizhny Novgorod as photographed by Andrei Karelin and Maxim Dmitriev in the late 19th and early 20th century
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The crop failure and famine of 1891–1892 in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate: districts and villages, the people of the famine year, public canteens and hospitals — after Korolenko's book In the Year of Famine and Dmitriev's photo album
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Departments, pavilions, machinery and people of the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod — and the city rebuilt for it: the tram, the funiculars, the exchange, the theatre
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Painted wood and toys, pottery, knives and locks, lace and gold embroidery, carving, leather, fur and felt boots — the peasant and cottage crafts of the governorate and region, their villages, workshops, museums and masters
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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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