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"Gorky Residents for the Front" Memorial… — Frontu," dedicated to the memory of the wartime labor exploits of the residents of Gorky during the Great Patriotic War, was opened on 8 May 1975 inside the Kremlin, near Dmitrievskaya Tower. On the same day, a commemorative …
100th Athletics Relay Race for the Nizhny Novgorod Pravda Newspaper Prize… — one of the oldest sporting competitions in the region, held since 1927, including during the years of the Great Patriotic War. [1]
Alexander Dmitrievich ProsvininDuring the Great Patriotic War, Prosvyrnin took part in developing components and systems for trucks as well as military vehicle models. …
Alexander Ivanovich KositsinDuring the Great Patriotic War Kositsin's team continued working at the plant and was awarded the honorary title of "front-line team". [1]
Alexander Mikhailovich KuznetsovAlexander Mikhailovich Kuznetsov (1922 – April 2022) was a Great Patriotic War, a Hero of the Soviet Union, and a resident of Nizhny Novgorod. He lived to the age of one hundred and …
Alexander Mikhailovich SafonovDuring the Great Patriotic War Safonov stayed at the plant. In 1944 he received the Order of the Red Star for clearing the consequences of …
Alexander Nikolayevich Formozov… of tularemia, which was taken into account in the state system of epidemic surveillance. During the Great Patriotic War he studied the ecology of rodents that carry infections, with reference to the sites where military …
Alexandra Savelyeva, 100th anniversarySavelyeva Aleksandra Yakovlevna (born September 28, 1926) is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, a home front worker and labor veteran, and a resident of Nizhny Novgorod. On September 28, 2026, she …
Alexey Nikonovich ZakharovZakharov Alexey Nikonorovich (1921-2006) — a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, colonel (retired). From 22 June 1941 to May 1945 he took part in the fighting …
Alexey Poyuchev… Red Army and sent to a flight school. He was a cadet at the Engels Military Aviation Pilot School when the Great Patriotic War broke out, graduating successfully in 1942. He mastered the Il-2 ground-attack aircraft. In the spring of …
Anoshkin Nikolai Ivanovich… prayed; he himself believed that thanks to those prayers, all the men of the clan returned alive from the Great Patriotic War. [5] Sherstino is one of the Erzya villages in the south of the Region where the native language held on in …
Archbishop George… His father, Timofey Nikolaevich Danilov (October 14, 1921 – November 1, 2009), was a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Of the six children, two chose to serve God in monastic orders.
Arseny VorozheikinVorozheykin received his baptism of fire two years before the start of the Great Patriotic War — on 22 June 1939, in the skies over Khalkhin Gol, in battles against the Japanese. There he won his …
Avdeev Viktor Ivanovich… a Nizhny Novgorod poet and war veteran, a member of the Union of Soviet Writers, Sormovo. He went through Great Patriotic War from Moscow to Berlin, and after demobilization received a literary education and managed to publish his …
Avtozavodskiy ParkDuring the Great Patriotic War, landscaping work was suspended, and units of the 784th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, which defended …
Avtozavodsky District… Merkurov's work from the Moscow–Volga Canal — was erected in front of the entrance to the summer theatre; after the report on the cult of personality at the 20th Party Congress in 1956, it was removed and replaced with a monument to Lenin. [3] Until 1957 …
Ayrat Akhmetshine… Russia," "For Merit," "For Diligence in Service," "For Loyalty to Duty," "75th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945," "10 Years of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation," "70 Years of the Forensic Service," …
Bashkirova Estate on GrebeshokIn 1918 the estate was nationalized. Until 1939 the buildings housed a Militia (police). [1] During the Great Patriotic War, a bomb shelter was set up in the basement, and in the 1950s that same basement was converted into a …
Bolshaya ElnyaAlso under state protection is the memory of the Great Patriotic War: two frontline heroes are buried in the village cemetery [8] [9]. The surroundings of the selo are also …
Book of Memory of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast… dedicated to residents of Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) Oblast who were killed or went missing during the Great Patriotic War. Exact dates for the start and completion of publication are not given in the available sources, but the …
Boris Abramov… At sixteen he had to take the controls of a tractor and plow his first furrow. It was in the thick of the war, in 1942. The shadow of those times seemed to have left its mark on his face forever — thoughtful, stern, …
Boris MokrousovDuring the Great Patriotic War, Mokrousov wrote the opera Chapayev (1942). [2] In 1948 he was awarded the USSR State Prize, and in 1962 he …
Borisoglebskaya Tower of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin… only during the large-scale Agafonov, carried out in the second half of the twentieth century. [1] During Great Patriotic War, anti-aircraft installations were stationed on the Kremlin grounds. [1]
Bugrovsky CemeteryThe cemetery contains a mass grave of victims of the air raid on the Avtozavod during the years of the Great Patriotic War. Among those buried at the cemetery are: former Governor and former Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Ivan Sklyarov …
Central Design Bureau for Hydrofoil Ships named after R. E. Alexeyev… Hydrofoil Ships is a Nizhny Novgorod Gorky on the basis of Rostislav Alekseev, begun Krasnoye Sormovo Plant Great Patriotic War. The bureau specializes in the design of high-speed vessels: hydrofoil ships and ekranoplans; its …
Chemical Industry of Nizhny Novgorod OblastDuring the Great Patriotic War, Dzerzhinsk became the center of Soviet chemical industry: the USSR People's Commissariat of the Chemical …
Dmitry Avramovich AristarkhovAristarkhos, Dmitry Avramovich (born November 10, 1923) — participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, retired colonel. From July 1, 1941 to May 1945 he took part in combat against …
Dmitry Balika… Balika was awarded the badge "Excellent Worker of Public Education" and the medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945", as well as an Honorary Diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.
Dukhovny Efim Evseevich… Yefim Yevseyevich (1912–2001) — retired Major General of Tank Forces, veteran of the Finnish War and the Great Patriotic War. During the war he organized in City of Gorky and subsequently commanded the 169th Separate Tank Battalion …
Dzerzhinsk celebrates fifth anniversary of the "City of Labour Valour" title… same year. The title is given to cities whose residents made a significant contribution to victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 by working on the home front. In 2025 Dzerzhinsk marked five years since the title was …
Dzerzhinsky City Committee of the VKP(b)… as a political officer at the Dzerzhinsky evacuation hospital, after which he retired. He was awarded the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945." [1]
Electromash PlantDuring the Great Patriotic War, the plant operated under strict, near-military discipline, with an hourly schedule and a tightly organized …
Figner Vera NikolaevnaShe died on 15 June 1942 in Moscow, at the height of the Great Patriotic War. She was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery. [1]
Fyodor BedinFyodor Andreyevich's dedication showed itself most strongly during the years of the Great Patriotic War, when he effectively saved the unique craft from ruin and oblivion. All the leading masters had by then …
Galanin Timofey Grigoryevich… of five. [2] In 1939 he completed four grades at a rural school in Nikitino. [2] With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, he took part in digging defensive lines between the Volga and the Oka River. [1]
Gershman Boris Nikolaevich… (1964), and a specialist in the propagation of electromagnetic waves in plasma and ionospheric physics. Great Patriotic War. The greater part of Gershman's scholarly and teaching career was associated with Lobachevsky University, …
Gorokh Vladimir Petrovich… Veterinary Surgeon of Russia," the Order "Friendship of Peoples" (1986), the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945" (1946), the medal "For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of …
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Igor Alekseevich Prodan… localities across the region to train self-defense groups and public instructors [9] [14]. During the Great Patriotic War, the population was taught how to act during air-raid alerts and how to extinguish incendiary bombs [14].
Industry and Economy of Nizhny Novgorod… truck) and the GAZ-M1 passenger car to the GAZ-M20 Pobeda and the Volga (car). During the Great Patriotic War, the plant produced tanks, self-propelled guns, and mortars. In the 2020s, GAZ specializes in commercial …
Ivan Bubnov… to the construction of their "pocket battleships," which would become a menace to Allied convoys during the Great Patriotic War. Bubnov's fundamental theoretical works are in constant demand among shipbuilders. He became the founder of …
Ivan Fyodorovich KovalyovIn 1938, Kovalyov was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. During the years of the Great Patriotic War he traveled to the front and performed for soldiers at combat positions. For his contributions to literature …
Ivan Kuzmich Loskutov… [2] [1] He led the enterprise during one of the most difficult periods in its history — the years of the Great Patriotic War and postwar reconstruction. [4]
Ivan Stepanovich VereshchavinVereshchavin Ivan Stepanovich (1923–2006) — veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Chairman of the Veterans of War and Labor Council of Leninsky District, member of the presidiums of the …
Ivan Zuev… deal — and ahead of him lay new roads, new battles, and then the greatest and most brutal trial of all: the Great Patriotic War. When in 1942 Andrei Vlasov treacherously abandoned his 2nd Shock Army, Divisional Commissar Zuev …
Izrail Gusman… as a military conductor, and in the postwar years led the orchestra of the Kharkov Philharmonic. During the Great Patriotic War, Gusman served in the 112th Guards Rifle Division and was subsequently transferred to a military orchestra; …
Khlibko Nikolai SelivestrovichParticipant in the Great Patriotic War.
Kiryanov Igor AleksandrovichKiryanov Igor Aleksandrovich (1918–2007) — Candidate of Historical Sciences, veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Chairman of the society "Nizhny Novgorod Local Historian", member of the presidium of the Nizhny Novgorod …
Konstantin Alexandrovich ProninPronin Konstantin Aleksandrovich (born September 21, 1918) — Guards Lieutenant Colonel (ret.), veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod.
Konstantin Vasilyevich LonshchakovLonshchakov Konstantin Vasilyevich (born June 18, 1924) — veteran of the Great Patriotic War, director of Volgovyatmashelektrosnabsbyt JSC. Elected deputy of the Sormovo District Council of People's …
Kostin Evgeny Nikolaevich… grandfather worked at the " Krasnoye Sormovo Plant " shipyard, where T-34 tanks were produced during the Great Patriotic War; Kostin said this at the pre-election debates on May 11, 2019, in answer to a question about patriotic …
Krasny Sormovich Newspaper… frequency dropped to three times a week, at four pages. [2] Publication was not interrupted even during the Great Patriotic War: the issue of June 23, 1941, carried the report of Germany's attack, and the issue of April 14, 1961, …
Kuzma Minin… the Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University named after Kuzma Minin, known as the Mininsky. During the Great Patriotic War, the name of Kuzma Minin was given to an armored train built at the Sormovo Plant in Gorky in just 19 days …
Leonid ZhukovZhukov Leonid Stepanovich (1925–2021) — a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, a veteran of the airborne forces, a retired captain, and an Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod. He had …
List of Honorary CitizensIvan Stepanovich Vereshchavin — veteran of the Great Patriotic War, since 1995.
Margarita TrapeznikovaMargarita Fyodorovna was born and grew up Gorky; from 1936 to 1946 she attended secondary school. During the Great Patriotic War, together with other schoolchildren, she worked in the collective-farm fields of Gorky Region and was …
Mark Pimenovich SedovFrom 1941 to 1948 he served in the Navy and was a Great Patriotic War. During his years of service, Sedov rose to the rank of Petty Officer 2nd Class; in March 1946 he was …
Memorial "Gorkovchane in the Great Patriotic War"The memorial "Gorky Residents in the Great Patriotic War" is a commemorative complex on the grounds of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, opened on 9 May 1965 to mark the …
Mikhail Alferyev… topic "Theory of the Operation of a Paddle Wheel with Pivoting Blades" and received his doctorate. When the Great Patriotic War broke out, Alferyev applied to join the army as a volunteer, but was refused — even in those years of dire …
Mikhail Grigoryevich Grigoryev… of the RSFSR. From 1951 to 1984 he headed the Gorky Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Great Patriotic War. [2]
MordvintsevoThe GAZ decoy during the Great Patriotic War
NITEL… to rise to 82% by 1937. The plant's products proved themselves especially well during the years of the Great Patriotic War.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Malyshev… of the Upper Oka hydroelectric complex (the Kaluga Hydroelectric Station). With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, construction was halted, and Malyshev headed the district's Defensive Works Directorate; he was then …
Nikolai Ivanovich StepanovStepanov Nikolay Ivanovich (1927–2008) — veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of Socialist Labor, driving instructor at Nizhny Novgorod Passenger Motor Transport Enterprise No. 1. …
Nikolai Ivanovich TurkinTurkin Nikolay Ivanovich (1913 – 1998) — participant in the Great Patriotic War, State Prize laureate, and distinguished Avtozavod worker. From 1975 to 1983, he served as director of the …
Nikolai Nikolaevich Blokhin… defended his candidate's dissertation. Blokhin's extraordinary gift as a healer came to the fore during the Great Patriotic War, when Nikolay Nikolaevich effectively became the founder of an entire branch of medicine — reconstructive …
Nikolai Vasilyevich Kutepov… Nikolay Vasilyevich (1924–2001) — Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, Nicholas; veteran of the Great Patriotic War. He headed the Mukachevo, Omsk, Rostov, and Vladimir sees. From 1977 he headed the Nizhny Novgorod see. On …
Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics… is notable for being the first school building erected in Nizhny Novgorod after the revolution; during the Great Patriotic War it housed Hospital No. 1389, which treated soldiers with eye injuries. Renovations took nine months before …
Oleg Alexandrovich ObukhovObukhov Oleg Aleksandrovich (born May 6, 1923) — veteran of the Great Patriotic War, People's Doctor of the USSR, Honored Doctor of the RSFSR, and from 1963 to 2001 chief physician of the …
Opening of Four New Schools in Nizhny Novgorod Region (2026)… Street, a A. O. Molev Secondary School (Dzerzhinsk) Alexander Osipovich Molev — a ground-attack pilot of the Great Patriotic War — was opened. The school is designed for 1,100 pupils and brings together the traditions of Schools No. 5 …
Parks of Nizhny NovgorodVictory Park) — a memorial park dedicated to the events of the Great Patriotic War.
Pavel Batashov… Hospital. From 1945 onward he was retired. He was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945." He died in 1971. [1]
Petr Vasilyevich InozemtsevInozemtsev Petr Vasilevich (1913–2005) — veteran of the Great Patriotic War, chairman of the veterans of war and labor council of Prioksky District. From June 1941 to August 1946 he …
Petrovsky Plant… Nizhny Novgorod, located in the Upper Town near Sennaya Square. The enterprise was established during the Great Patriotic War as a factory evacuated from Ukraine and housed in pre-war production workshops; it continues to operate to …
Polkanov Leonid DmitrievichOrder of the "Red Star" (1944), medal "For the Victory over Germany" (1946), medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945," medal "Winner of the 1973 Competition," medal "For Valiant Labor" marking the centenary of …
Protopopov Boris ViktorovichIn 1931 Protopopov began work at the Gorky Medical Institute. During the Great Patriotic War (1941–1944) he served as acting head of the eye department of the Gorky evacuation hospital, holding the …
Pyotr Vasilyevich IvnevA veteran of the Great Patriotic War. [1] In 1953 he graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Law Institute. [1]
Radio Engineering Department Head… at the "Radio Engineering" department of the Gorky Industrial Institute; 1941-1946 – participant in the Great Patriotic War; 1953-1983 – head of the "Radio Engineering" department of the Gorky Polytechnic Institute.
Rashidov Abdurakhman ZapirovichAssistance to a home for disabled veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War, and to children's institutions.
Russian Museum of Photography…, Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko), Pavel Melnikov-Pechersky, and other cultural figures. [1] After the Great Patriotic War, when the building housed a tailoring workshop, the photographic studio pavilion was rebuilt and has not …
Ryzhakov Dmitry IvanovichHe was born in 1927 in the village of Deryabino in Varnavinsky District of Gorky Oblast. During the Great Patriotic War he began working at the age of fourteen. In 1948 he graduated from the Gorky River College, after which he …
Samodelkina Maria Alexandrovna… support of events marking the 75th anniversary of Victory. She identifies the branch's primary focus as supporting veterans of the Great Patriotic War: each of the 931 war veterans living in the Region has been assigned a dedicated volunteer [6] [3].
Semashko Regional Clinical HospitalFrom 1963 to 2001, the hospital's chief physician was Oleg Aleksandrovich Obukhov (born May 6, 1923), a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, People's Physician of the USSR, and Honored Physician of the RSFSR. During almost four decades at the head …
Staro-Avtozavodskoe Brothers' Military BurialThe Staro-Avtozavodskoye Fraternal Military Burial — a mass grave from the era of the Great Patriotic War, located at Staro-Avtozavodskoye Cemetery (formerly the "Molochnoye" civilian cemetery) Avtozavodsky …
Staro-Avtozavodskoye CemeteryThe cemetery was in active use during the Great Patriotic War: Soviet soldiers killed in combat or who died in Nizhny Novgorod hospitals were buried here. A mass grave …
The Cargo Cult
The Engine of the RevolutionDuring the Great Patriotic War, the plant was subordinated to the munitions ministry: it manufactured 120-mm mortars, gearboxes for T-34 …
ToysThe outbreak of the Great Patriotic War halted toy production. But by 1943, it had resumed.
TurkinNikolai Ivanovich Turkin — Turkin Nikolai Ivanovich (1913 – 1998) — participant in the Great Patriotic War, laureate of the State Prize, honored worker of the Gorky Automobile Plant. From 1975 to 1983 – director of …
Vasily Kazakov… organizing an artillery offensive. Vasily Ivanovich Kazakov is the only commander or military leader of the Great Patriotic War who was a native of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
Vasily KochetovFrom March 1942 he took part in the Great Patriotic War as a military feldsher (medical assistant) of the 113th Rifle Division on the Western, 2nd Ukrainian, and …
Vladimir Mikhailovich KharitonovKharitonov Vladimir Mikhaylovich (1919 – 1996) — participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot. Over the course of the war he flew 296 combat missions and personally …
Vladimir ZotovZotov Vladimir Mikhailovich (1926, Ufa — 19 January 2018, Nizhny Novgorod) — a Great Patriotic War, tankman, teacher of history and military training, founder and permanent director of the museum of GAZ …
Vodnik Stadium… in the block bounded by Volodarskoye, Gruzinskaya, Alekseevskaya, and Osharskaya streets. During the Great Patriotic War it served as one of the city's mobilization assembly points; in the Soviet period and later it was used as a …
Volga FlotillaAn armored gunboat of the Volga Military Flotilla, WWII
Volga–Don Canal… the canal was raised again, as part of the GOELRO plan; the project was prepared by the mid-1930s, but the Great Patriotic War prevented its realization. [1]
Volodin Vyacheslav AnatolyevichDuring the Great Patriotic War, the plant manufactured fuel and oil tanks, exhaust manifolds and pipe fittings, tail assembly and fittings …
Vorsma… storage facility, and for about twenty years the church served as a grain collection point [7]. During the Great Patriotic War and the first postwar years, there was not a single functioning church in the entire Pavlovsky District [7].
War Memorial of the Voskresenkoye-on-Vetluga Urban-Type Settlement… is a monument to the residents of Voskresensky District who were killed or went missing during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. It is located in Voskresenskoye (settlement) (the administrative center of Voskresensky …
Yekaterina Women's Gymnasium (Arzamas)… as high. [2] The earliest surviving records from the gymnasium's archival fond date to 1868. During the Great Patriotic War, the building housed an evacuation hospital and pupils were transferred to a small house on Stupin Street; …
Yevgeny Ivanovich MakarovMakarov Evgeniy Ivanovich (born October 27, 1925) — a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, a resident of Nizhny Novgorod, an Honorary Citizen of the city (since 2020), an Honorary Veteran of the …
Zaburdaev Nikolai AlekseevichHe was born in the town of Kozmodemyansk (now the Mari El). [1] He served throughout the Great Patriotic War; he was awarded the Order of the Red Star (1945), the medal "For Combat Merit" (1944), and later the Order …
Zhukov Square… Square is among the Nizhny Novgorod squares bearing names tied to national history and the memory of the Great Patriotic War — alongside Minin Square, Lenin Square, Freedom Square and Unity Squares.

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