This category collects material on projects and initiatives that were loudly announced but never carried out, or that ended in questionable results. For Nizhny Novgorod and its region this theme is especially relevant: for decades there has been talk of Raising the Water Level in the Cheboksary Hydroelectric Power Plant Reservoir, which threatens to flood urban areas, while officials keep on adding to the stockpile of promises — one need only look at Shantsev's Fairy Tales).
Among specific objects is the never-built waterfront gallery Rozhdestvenskaya Storona and the fantastical resort project Little Venice) in the reservoir's basin. What unites all these stories is one thing: the gap between the scale of the idea and its actual outcome.