Nizhegorodskaya Street is a street in the historic center of Nizhny Novgorod. It is one of the streets forming the Upper Part of the city.
Location and buildings
Nizhegorodskaya Street belongs to the historic center of the city, which is characterized by mixed development that includes buildings from the Soviet period and Wooden Buildings of Nizhny Novgorod.
Memorial sites
House No. 11 on Nizhegorodskaya Street bears a memorial plaque dedicated to composer Boris Andreyevich Mokrousov, a native of Nizhny Novgorod and author of popular Soviet songs.
The 2022 fire
On August 18, 2022, a vacated wooden house of about 400 square meters caught fire on Nizhegorodskaya Street. The fire spread to the neighboring building — the tenement house of merchant I. I. Gurov (an architectural monument of regional significance), as a result of which the cultural heritage site sustained damage.
Sources
Based on materials from articles (3)
Historic Center, Merchant I. I. Gurov's Apartment House), Boris Mokrousov