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Alekseyev Kuzma… were the most Russified part of the Mordva: Pavel Melnikov-Pechersky, who gathered ethnographic material in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, wrote that the language had by then been almost entirely forgotten there, and Mordva dress was preserved …
Alexandra of DiveevoThe vision showed her the place for founding a new convent. Mother Alexandra moved to the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate and settled in the selo (a larger village) of Diveevo in the Ardatov Uyezd, where she began a women's …
Alexey Fyodorovich LeontyevLeontyev Alexey Fyodorovich (27 March 1917, selo of Yakovtsevo, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — 14 April 1987, Ufa) was a Soviet mathematician, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1948), …
Alexey Gornostaev… formed near the Vyksun factories of the Batashov and Shepelyov families, situated on the very outskirts of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. The youngest child of a factory manager's family, Aleksey showed an early inclination toward art and drew …
An Old Description of the Districts of Nizhny Novgorod
Andrei Vlasov… peasant family in the selo of Lomakino, Pokrovskaya volost, Sergach Uyezd (present-day Gaginsky District) of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. It is known that he studied at a theological seminary, but the Civil War broke out and prompted him to …
Ardatov UyezdNizhny Novgorod Governorate, Vladimir Zolotnitsky
Ardatovsky District… turned out huge: 40 volosts and about 120,000 inhabitants, fourth in population and third in area in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. It included the lands of the present-day Diveevo, Vyksa, Kulebaki, Pervomaysk, and Voznesenskoye …
Arkhangelsky Sergei IvanovichArkhangelsky's publications include works on the history of the peasant and labor movement in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, as well as fundamental studies of the agrarian legislation of the English Revolution: [2]
Arseny VorozheikinArseniy Vasilyevich was born in the selo of Prokofyevo in Gorodetskaya Volost, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. His father was killed in the First World War, leaving him fatherless early in life, and he came to know an …
Arzamas… about the "Arzamas Mordva kingdom" — Smirnov A.D. — Notes on the Mordva and monuments of Mordva antiquity in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate
Arzamas Brewery… and his daughter Anna. By the early 20th century, their firm dominated the beer market in the south of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. [1]
Arzamas District SchoolThe Arzamas District School was a primary educational institution that operated in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate in the first half of the 19th century. It is known chiefly as the place where Vasily Perov studied — later a …
Arzamas School of Craft Apprentices… and architecture. [2] It was among the institutions that shaped the system of vocational education in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. [1]
Arzamas Uyezd… unit that existed from 1564 to 1929, successively as part of the Russian state, then of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate and the RSFSR. Arzamas. In 1929 the uyezd was abolished in the course of a Soviet administrative reform, …
Arzamas Uyezd Military Commander's Office… the fund is occupied by notebooks of intake service records for recruits — both from Arzamas Uyezd and from districts of various governorates of Russia. Recruits were directed to Guards units, cavalry, the navy, and local military detachments throughout …
Arzamassky District… Province was incorporated into the Kazan Province, and in 1719, it was placed under the jurisdiction of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. The economic prosperity of the Arzamas region—its “golden age”—continued until the mid-19th century. At …
Balakhna UyezdThe Bashkirovs, Pyotr Zalomov, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate
Blagoveschenskiy Muzhskoy Monastery… [2] [3]. According to other sources, the monastery was dissolved in 1921 by a decision of the NKVD for Nizhny Novgorod Governorate [5] [10].
Bogorodsk… which became the foundation of the city's prosperity and distinguishes it from other cities of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate.
Bogorodsky District… year — sold throughout the country [6]. In the late nineteenth century, two thirds of all hides tanned in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate were processed in Bogorodskoye [11].
Bolshaya ElnyaBolshaya Elnya is an old state-owned selo of the Nizhny Novgorod Uyezd of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. It was never a landlord's estate: in the "List of Populated Places" based on 1859 data the selo is marked …
Books about the Nizhny Novgorod RegionMAKARIY, Archimandrite. Monuments of Church Antiquities: Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. — St. Petersburg, 1857. — 514 pp.
Bugrov… of barges, and enormous forests, N. A. Bugrov played the role of an appanage prince in Nizhny and the governorate. An Old Believer of the "priestless persuasion," he built a vast cemetery in the fields, a verst from …
BykovkaThe first plantings of potatoes and sowings of fodder crops in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate were made in the village. There were remarkable gardens and greenhouses; Kholmogory cattle and Oryol …
Chernoramensky Forest… Forests are a historic forested area to the west of the Kerzhenets River, located in Semyonovsky Uyezd of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. They formed part of the Old Believer skete settlement zone alongside the Kerzhenets forests and …
Desnitsky Vasily AlekseevichVasily Alekseevich Desnitsky (30 January 1878, Sergachsky Uyezd Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — 22 September 1958, Leningrad) was a revolutionary, literary scholar, and educator. He was born into the …
Dimitry (Sechenov)… from 1740, later Archbishop and then Metropolitan of Novgorod and first-ranking member of the Synod. In the Nizhny Novgorod land, his name is associated above all with the baptism of the Mordva: according to his register, over five …
Diveevskiy DistrictWithin Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, a number of villages — including the village of Ardatovo — were granted town status. New uyezds were …
Dmitriev… 71 × 84 centimeters — this was the load the photographer carried as he traveled around the districts of the Governorate. [5]
Dmitry Nikolaevich ZamyatninDmitry Nikolayevich Zamyatnin (31 January 1805, the selo of Pashigorevo, Gorbatov Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — 31 October 1881, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian jurist and statesman who served as Minister of Justice …
Edinoverie in Nizhny Novgorod GovernorateEdinoverie in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — the history and institutional development of the Edinoverie movement in the governorate from 1798 to 1917. …
Erzya… based on data from 1859, counted 166 Erzya settlements, 15,501 households, and 112,192 inhabitants in the Governorate. The language was maintained in five southern uyezds, while in Nizhegorodsky uyezd the inhabitants were …
Erzya Villages of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast… Region — settlements whose population identified as Erzya and spoke the Erzya language. The compendium " Lists of Populated Places," based on data from 1859, counted 166 such settlements in the governorate, comprising 15,501 households …
Famine of 1891–1892 in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate… of summer 1892 [1]. The hardest hit were the peasants of the southern grain-producing districts of the governorate [2]; the most acute events unfolded in Lukoyanov Uyezd, where a dispute over whether there was a famine at …
Florishcheva Hermitage… transformed into Volodarsky Municipal Okrug [11]. It is worth noting that the hermitage never belonged to Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — until the district reorganization of the late 1920s it was listed under Gorokhovets Uyezd of Vladimir …
Fyodor Vladimirsky… and Nizhny Novgorod, in January 1907 Fyodor Vladimirsky was elected a deputy of the 2nd State Duma from Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. In his new field he not only justified the voters' trust but also became one of the most prominent figures …
GaginoUntil 1929, Gagino was part of Sergachsky Uyezd of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. On June 10, 1929, the Gagino volost was renamed Gaginsky District by decision of the uyezd Council, with …
Gaginsky DistrictUntil 1929, Gagino was part of Sergachsky Uyezd of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate [3]. The neighboring villages had richer histories than the district center itself: Vetoshkino belonged to …
Gordeyevsky Skit… agreement and took shape in the 18th century alongside the other Kerzhenets skits, which arose during the Catherinian era of relative religious tolerance. In 1826 it contained three monastic communities. [1]
Gorky RailwayThe Moscow–Nizhny Novgorod Railway passed through the territories of the Moscow, Vladimir, and Nizhny Novgorod Governorate governorates. It connected central Russia with the Volga Region and the eastern parts of the country, and …
Gorodetskaya VolostArseniy Vorozheykin, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate
Grigory Sergeyevich KhlamovKhlamov, Grigory Sergeyevich (December 6 [19], 1903, selo of Koshelevo, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — November 29, 1968, Moscow) was a Soviet statesman and industrial production manager, a native of the …
Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod
Ichalki (village)… earliest statistics verifiable from a printed source come from the compilation "Lists of Populated Places of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate " based on data from 1859. Ichalki (also known as Ichaly, also known as Troitskoye) appears there under …
In the Forests and On the Hills… — an epic dilogy by the Russian writer and ethnographer Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov-Pechersky (1818–1883), Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. The first part, *In the Forests*, was written in 1874; the second, *On the Mountains*, completed the …
Installation of a Monument to Dmitry Zamyatnin on Bolshaya Pokrovskaya (2026)… to Dmitry Nikolayevich Zamyatnin — Minister of Justice of the Russian Empire (1864–1867) and a native of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — began on Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street in Nizhny Novgorod. [1] The monument is being placed in front of the …
Irinarh (Lapshin)… his episcopal rank, on 7 July 1901 Irirnarkh was administratively exiled from the village of Yellokhino in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate under police supervision. He died in the city nine months after his exile, on 14 (27) March 1902. [1] [2]
Isaac Levitan and the Nizhny Novgorod Region… Levitan set out for the Volga for the first time. He left Moscow alone and chose Vasilsursk — a town of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate on a high bank at the confluence of the Sura and the Volga — as his place to live and work. The bank, …
Ivan BlinovBlinov Ivan Gavrilovich (November 5, 1872, the village of Kudashikha in Balakhna Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — June 8, 1944, same place, now Gorodetsky District) was a scribe and book artist, one of the last masters …
Ivan Fyodorovich Kovalyov… State Regional Children's Library, Kovalyov was born in the selo of Shadrino in Semyonovsky Uyezd of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate into a peasant family. [2] He received only a three-grade rural education. In his youth he worked as a …
Ivan Ivanovich ChugunovIvan Ivanovich Chugunov (24 September [7 October] 1907, selo Shatki, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — 10 February 1972, Gorky) was a Soviet state and party official, chairman of the Gorky Oblast Executive …
Ivan Ivanovich OrlovOrlov Ivan Ivanovich (1861–1928) was an inventor, a native of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, who created the technology of multicolor "Orlov printing," used to protect banknotes and securities …
Karonin-Petropavlovsky Nikolai ElpidiforovichKaronin-Petropavlovsky first found himself in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate in 1886 — and it was there that he lost the manuscript of the novella "My World" (later found and returned …
Kerzhensky Hermitages…, standing along the Kerzhenets River and in the neighboring Chernoramensky forests of Semyonovsky Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. The first cells appeared here in the early 1660s; the sketes were ravaged twice — under Bishop Pitirim in …
Kileveyn Robert Yakovlevich… Kileveyn (28 April [10 May] 1825, Narva — 1895) was an architect and restorer, Provincial Architect of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate from 1859 to 1865 (acting) and from 1865 in confirmed rank. One of the authors of the Alexander Nevsky Fair …
KnyagininoFrom 1779, it was a district town of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate.
Knyaginino UyezdNizhny Novgorod Governorate, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate-General
Komarovsky Skete… of the Nizhny Novgorod Land, located on the Kerzhenets River in the Kerzhenets and Chernoramenye forests of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. The skete is believed to have operated from the 17th century and was finally abolished in the 1930s.
KosogorovoThe village has been mentioned since the 19th century: at that time it was part of Makaryevsky Uyezd in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, and its last owner was listed as a certain Levashov. In 1859 it had 9 households and 90 residents; by 1911 …
Koverninsky District… town of Kostroma Governorate. From October 1922, Koverninsky Volost became part of Semyonovsky Uyezd of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate and remained so until June 1929. On 10 June 1929, Koverninsky District was established. In 1962, the …
Kulebaki… furnace here, and within half a century the village had become the second-largest industrial village in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate by output, after Sormovo [3] [4]. Kulebaki became a workers' settlement in 1927 and a town on February 1, …
Kulebaksky Iron Works… in Kulebaki, launched in 1866 and, by the end of the 19th century, the second-largest producer in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate after the Sormovo works. From 1928 it bore the name of the Kulebaki Metallurgical Plant, and it is now part …
Kurmysh (Pilninsky District)Kurmysh is a historical settlement in the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate (now the Pilninskiy District), mentioned in sources no later than the 18th century in connection with the …
Lenin… that Lenin's father, Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov, was of Erzya ethnicity (a son of a former Erzya serf from Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Nikolai Ulyanov — also spelled Ulyanin — who was married to Anna Smirnova, the daughter of an Astrakhan …
Lesevich Vladimir Viktorovich… publicist and public figure, a proponent of positivism, born in Poltava Governorate. He was linked to Nizhny Novgorod Governorate through his imprisonment in the Nizhny Novgorod Ostrog during the political persecutions of the late 1870s. …
Lukoyanovsky UyezdNizhny Novgorod Governorate, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate-General
Lynda (village)The village has been known since the mid-19th century; it was part of Makaryevsky Uyezd of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. The last owner of the estate was N. Ya. Stobeus. In 1859 the village had 33 households and 227 …
Lyskovo… grain made their way here along the major overland roads connecting the city with the surrounding uyezds of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate as well as from Tambov, Penza, Simbirsk, and Kazan Governorates. As a result, more than 2 million puds of …
Lyubimov Isidor EvstigneevichIn November 1909 a new arrest followed, and Lyubimov was exiled to Nizhny Novgorod under police surveillance. Taking a job at the office of the …
Makaryev Fair… settlement), Makaryev Monastery, Nizhny Novgorod Yarmarka, Makary Zheltovod, Nizhne-Okskaya Embankment, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate
Makaryevsky CountyPre-revolutionary coat of arms of Makaryevsky County of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate
Mariinsky Institute for Noble Maidens… to establish an educational institution for girls — daughters of "insufficiently provided noblemen" of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — was made on 11 December 1842 at a general assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Nobility). The nobles resolved …
MektebeIn the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, such institutions were traditionally called by the Tatar word mektebe.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Sergushev… Nizhny Novgorod Governorate Party Conference on 25 July 1919, he was elected chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod Governorate) — RCP(b). He held the post until 3 September 1919; his predecessor was L. M. Kaganovich and his successor …
Mordva… call themselves Erzya and Moksha. [1] [2] Pavel Melnikov-Pechersky, who gathered ethnographic material in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, distinguished four groups within the Mordva: the Erzya of Arzamassky, Ardatovsky, Lukoyanovskiy, …
Mother Fotini… somewhere, in an unknown little village, near the Pechery microdistrict and by the Afoninskaya hill, in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, this miracle would take place. And however we may strive, however we may resist, the LORD nonetheless …
Nicholas IINicholas II's second visit to Nizhny Novgorod Governorate took place in 1903: together with his family he came for the celebrations marking the canonization of the …
Nikolai Alexandrovich MalyshevNikolay Aleksandrovich Malyshev (December 6, 1911, selo of Krapivino, Balakhna Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, now part of the selo of Purekh, Chkalovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Region — March 13, 2005, Moscow) was …
Nikolai Baranov… him. Nevertheless, over his 15 years as governor this "rough" man did a great deal for the prosperity of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. He was among those who initiated the founding of the art museum and the provincial archival commission.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Blokhin… Academy of Medical Sciences, Nikolay Nikolaevich Blokhin was born on 4 May 1912 in the city of Lukoyanov, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, into the family of a zemstvo pediatrician. Throughout his life, Academician Blokhin retained a deep …
Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) Krai… of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) through the transformation of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate in the course of USSR. It encompassed the territory of the present-day Nizhny Novgorod Region and a number …
Nizhny Novgorod Garrison
Nizhny Novgorod Governorate-General… in 1779 during Catherine II's provincial reform and existing until 1796, when it was transformed into the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate.
Nizhny Novgorod Nobility
Nizhny Novgorod OstrogThe first Nizhny Novgorod Governorate prison.
Nizhny Novgorod Principality
Nizhny Novgorod RegionNizhny Novgorod Governorate in an old lubok print: "The governorate has 1,178,200 souls of both sexes" Editor · citation
Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University n.a. R.E. Alekseev… for which there was demand. Thus, Tula gunsmiths would periodically complain about weapons made in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, which differed little in quality but was considerably cheaper. Over time, this situation naturally only …
Nizhny Novgorod Treasury Chamber… Novgorod Treasury Chamber was a provincial financial institution of the Russian Empire, operating in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. It was established in 1780 on the basis of the "Institution for the Administration of the Governorates of …
Nizhny Novgorod UyezdNizhny Novgorod Governorate, The Demidovs of Nizhny Novgorod
Notaries Smogorzhevsky A.I., Ternovsky V.A., Ternovsky V.V. of the City of Arzamas, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate… Ternovsky V.A., and Ternovsky V.V. were three successive (or partly overlapping in time) notaries of Arzamas Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, whose combined activity spans the period from 1863 to 1918. The records of their work are held at the …
October Revolution… monetary capital after the revolution. [1] The revolution gave impetus to the economic development of the forested districts of the northeast of the guberniya: the rapid growth of the settlement of Shakhunya and the whole of Shakhunskiy District began …
Opening of the Konditorskaya Genebarta Museum in Arzamas (2026)… late 19th century. [2] [3] His caramel and nougat made from natural fruit juices were known well beyond the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate: his sweets were served at the table of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin. [2] [3] Maxim Gorky, who lived in …
Panovskoye Volost Administration of Arzamas UyezdPanovskoye Volost Administration of Arzamas Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — a body of peasant estate self-government that operated from 1861 to 1917 in Panovskaya Volost of …
Pavel Melnikov-PecherskyPavel Ivanovich Melnikov-Pechersky (1818–1883) was a Russian writer, ethnographer, and civil servant, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, who wrote under the literary pseudonym "Andrey Pechersky." He was born in Nizhny Novgorod on November 6, …
PilnaUntil 1922, Pilna was part of Kurmyshsky Uyezd of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — and later Simbirsk — Governorate. From 1922, Pilninsky Volost formed part of Sergachsky Uyezd of Nizhny …
Pitirim's Devastation… Believer hermitages on the Kerzhenets River in the Kerzhenets and Chernoramen forests of Semyonov Uyezd in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, carried out on the initiative of Bishop Pitirim of Nizhny Novgorod and Alatyr. The event became one of …
PochinkiUnder the reform of 1779, Pochinki was granted the status of a town in Lukoyanov Uyezd of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. A general development plan was approved for the town, thanks to which the center of Pochinki acquired a …
Pokrov-Maydan (Pokrovskiy Maydan)
Provincial ArchitectProvincial architect — Russian Empire, existing in the provinces during the pre-revolutionary period. Nizhny Novgorod Governorate it was held by professional architects responsible for designing and supervising the construction of state …
Residents of Nizhny Novgorod and Events in South Africa… residents sympathized with the weaker side. Outrage against the English swept through all strata of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate 's population — Nizhny Novgorod residents aided the Boers however they could, that is, with money and food …
Revival of the Red Gorbatov Cattle Breed (2026)The Krasnaya Gorbatovskaya breed was developed in the early nineteenth century in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate by crossing local Oka-region cattle with Tyrolean stock. The Krasnaya Gorbatovskaya is the only breed of …
Russian EmpireLyskovo, The February Revolution, NITEL, The Governor's Palace, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate
Semenovsky UyezdBugrov, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Makarievsky Uyezd, In the Forests and On the Hills
Semyonovsky District… selo of Semyonovo was transformed into a district town of the Nizhny Novgorod Viceroyalty, and later of the Governorate [1].
Sergachsky UyezdNizhny Novgorod Governorate, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate-General, Knyaginino Uyezd
Shatki… Under the administrative reform carried out by Catherine II, Shatki became part of the Arzamas district of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. In 1873 the zemstvo opened a three-grade primary school in Shatki. The first teacher was Pyotr Sergeyevich …
Soldatskaya Sloboda… of Nizhny Novgorod Tatars stood at 122 — even as the majority of the region's Tatars continued to live in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate and numbered more than 40,000. [1]
SormovoSormovo is a selo of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Balakhna District, on the right bank of the Volga River, 10 versts from the city of Nizhny Novgorod. The …
Strelitskiy Stan
Sysin Alexey Nikolaevich… pre-revolutionary years he published works devoted directly to Nizhny Novgorod sanitary issues — above all, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. [1] In 2019, on the 140th anniversary of the scientist's birth, staff of the institute he had headed …
Tarabukin Stepan Kuzmich…, a participant in the Constituent Assembly of 1918, journalist and publicist. He was connected to Nizhny Novgorod Governorate and imprisonment in 1922. [1]
Tax Inspector of the 2nd District of Arzamas Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate… to researchers studying the history of financial and tax institutions, as well as the Arzamas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [1]
The 1905 Uprising in Sormovo… as leaflets posted everywhere stated unambiguously. The administrations of the Sormovo Plant and of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, frightened by the unrest and strikes that had continued all year, looked the other way, afraid of …
The Ababkovsky St. George and St. Nicholas ConventIn pre-revolutionary descriptions, the monastery was listed under Gorbatov Uyezd of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — sixty-five versts from Nizhny Novgorod and fifteen from the district seat of Gorbatov. [2] It stands not …
The Demidovs of Nizhny NovgorodTo confer baronial dignity upon the Demidovs, land was granted to them in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. The central estate was the selo of Bykovka, now part of Vorotynsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Region. …
The Lands of Nizovsk
The Nizhny Novgorod Scaffold
The Obelisk in Honor of Minin and Pozharsky… on a sculptural composition. Upon completion of the sketches, a public fundraising campaign was announced in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate in the spring of 1809.
The Princes Vorotynsky
The Vysokovsky-Koverinsky-Uspensky Monastery for Men… Don Cossack Host who had previously lived in the Old Believer Komarovsky Skete of Semyonovsky Uyezd in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. Together with his companion, the monk Paisiy, he settled in the "Rymovsky" forests of Makaryevsky Uyezd in …
Tsarist Russia
Ulangersky Skit… founded in the 1780s on the Kozlenets River near the present-day town of Semyonov in Semyonovsky Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. It existed until February 28, 1858, when it was finally destroyed by the authorities. Among the …
Valery Chkalov… February, New Style) 1904 in the village of Vasilyovo, in the Purekh volost of the Balakhna district of the Nizhny Novgorod province; today it is the town of Chkalovsk. [1] [5] His father was a boilermaker at the state workshops of the …
Vasilsursk… Moscow's forward post on the Kazan bank of the border river; for 143 years it was a district town of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, and today about six hundred people live there. [1] [4] [11]
Vasily Grigoryevich Perov… — who had noted the boy's diligence in penmanship. [1] His childhood and youth were spent primarily in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, where he studied at the Arzamas District School) (1843–1846) and at the Stupin's Arzamas School of …
Vasily Porfirievich Vakhterov… of "evolutionary pedagogy," and a specialist in elementary school methodology. A native of Arzamas in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, he did much to shape the character of the people's school in post-reform Russia and became one of the most …
Vasily Yegorovich RayevRayev is among the artists whose biography is inseparably linked with Nizhny Novgorod Governorate: it was precisely Stupin's Arzamas school that laid his professional foundations. Stupin's Arzamas School …
Vetluzhskiy DistrictIn 1922, Vetluzhsky Uyezd was transferred from Kostroma Governorate to Nizhny Novgorod Governorate [12]; local-history reference works trace the "district" history of Vetluga from that year — …
Viktor Illarionov… Russian Telegraph Agency, authorized representative of the Istpart of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, and commissar of the State Archive of the RSFSR for Nizhny Novgorod Governorate.
VladimirskoyeA craftsman at a potter's wheel. The selo of Vladimirskoye, Makaryev Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, pre-revolutionary photograph.
Vorotynets… in 1569 [2] [27], while the saying "Vorotynets feeds everyone" comes from its grain markets, the largest in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate after the abolition of serfdom [1] [4]. Vorotynets became an urban-type settlement on November 3, 1964 [18] …
Vorotynets Central LibraryA free public library and reading room was opened in the village of Vorotynets, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, on 24 August 1898 by order of the Governor of Nizhny Novgorod, N.M. Baranov, and belonged to the Society …
Vorotynsky DistrictFrom December 1779, when Nizhny Novgorod Governorate was reorganized into a viceroyalty with twelve district towns, Vasil remained a district town for 143 years …
VorsmaBefore the revolution, Vorsma was a selo (a larger village) in Gorbatovsky Uyezd of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — the uyezd center, Gorbatov, lay some fifteen versts away [7] [11]. Vorsma received the status of a …
Voznesenskiy Pecherskiy Muzhskoy Monastery… a monk of the Pechersky Monastery — the so-called Laurentian Chronicle. By decision of the NKVD for the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, it was closed in 1924. It was reopened in 1993.
Vyakhirev family… landowner Count Vladimir Orlov, who had taken possession of Borzovka in 1796, and they became the first in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate to buy their freedom from serfdom. [2] After their emancipation they rose quickly into the first-guild …
Yekaterina Women's Gymnasium (Arzamas)The Yekaterininskaya Women's Gymnasium was an educational institution Arzamas, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, which grew out of a women's school opened in 1862 and remained in operation until 1918, when Russian …
Zinovy (Drozdov)In April 1926 Zinovy was Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. There he lived Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent; on 31 July – 1 August 1926 he conducted services The Holy …

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