Lena Mityagina is a Nizhny Novgorod guide and author of the TRAVELBLOGNN blog about the city and region. She has been leading original tours since June 2017, and runs the blog as an extension of her walks: places, legends, and the histories of houses and streets [1].
Routes
Her tours are built not around a guidebook but around themes that no guidebook covers: "The Secret Life of Rozhdestvenskaya," "Mystical Nizhny," "Seedy Nizhny," "Secret Courtyards of the Old Center," "City of Contrasts," "Ilyinka–Pochaina," "Fedorovsky Embankment," Chernigovskaya Street [1].
There are also trips around the region: historic estates of the southern Nizhny Novgorod area, Vorsma, the Somovo Hills with a treasure hunt [1]. The format is always the same: not a list of landmarks, but a narrative that makes the route worth walking.
- "The Secret Life of Rozhdestvenskaya" — a merchant street and its hidden side
- "Mystical Nizhny" and "Seedy Nizhny" — Urban Legends and dark corners
- "Secret Courtyards of the Old Center" — what you can only see if you step inside a courtyard
- Regional tours: estates, Vorsma, the Somovo Hills
Blog
She has maintained her own website since 2017, and her Telegram channel "Travelblognn | Lena Mityagina" — 7,400 subscribers as of September 2, 2026 — functions simultaneously as an events listing and a notebook: announcements of upcoming walks, the find of the week, a legend unpacked.
She states the project's goal plainly: to make the reader fall in love with the city [1]. For an encyclopedia, such an author is valuable because each of her routes is a ready-made story about a specific place, assembled by someone who has tested it on foot.
Sources
- travelblognn.ru — Original tours by Lena Mityagina