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Air Raid of November 4… bomb slung under its fuselage. Suddenly emerging from behind the hilly bank, the aircraft flew over the Oka and, in a shallow dive, released its “cargo” on the Dvigatel Revolyutsii plant. A tremendous explosion …
Aleksandra Nevskogo Cathedral… Novgorod, near the river port in the historic area of Strelka ("Strelitsa"), at the confluence of the Oka and the Volga. It was built in 1868–1881 to a design by the architect L. V. Dal.
Amvrosiev-Nikolaevsky-Dudin MonasteryAmbrose Nikolaevsky Dudin Monastery is located on the steep right bank of the Oka. A dirt road 2 km long connects the monastery with the nearest village, Podyablonnoye.
An Old Description of the Districts of Nizhny NovgorodNizhny Novgorod stands at 56° 20' latitude and 61° 30' longitude at the confluence of the Oka with the Volga, at a distance of 1063 versts from St. Petersburg and 390 from Moscow.
Arzamas… the Erzya who inhabited it. The city stands on the high right bank of the Tyosha River (a tributary of the Oka). Its position at the center of the right-bank part of the Region, 112 km from Nizhny Novgorod, 410 km …
Blagoveschenskiy Muzhskoy Monastery… and oldest monastery of Nizhny Novgorod, standing on a landslide terrace of the high right bank of the Oka, roughly two kilometers upstream from the Kremlin, not far from where the river flows into the Volga [1] …
Bogorodsk… widely known historic industrial center of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. It lies some distance from the Oka River (8 kilometers away), roughly halfway between Nizhny Novgorod and Pavlovo.
Bogorodsky DistrictBogorodsky District — a territory in the central part of Nizhny Novgorod Region on the right bank of the Oka, known since ancient times as Berezovolye; since 2020 it has been a unified municipal entity — the …
Bolshaya Yamskaya… and Tretya Yamskaya Streets running parallel to it, along with three cross streets leading to the bank of the Oka, one of which became the future Pryadilnaya — now Maslyakova Street. [2] [1] The general plan of 1839 …
Borzovka… there were two wharves for loading timber, as well as a steel foundry and a nail factory. On the shore Oka River There were several smithies there, owned by the merchant Vyakhirev. A little later, Vyakhirev began building …
Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the SaviorThe Staroyarmarochny Cathedral during the flooding of the Oka
Cheboksary CatastropheBecause of the destruction of the right bank of the Oka, the amount of bottom sediment sharply increased, as a result of which the guaranteed depths on the main …
Cheboksary Hydroelectric Power Plant… and the reservoir would lose its river section entirely. The backwater would extend 83 kilometers up the Oka, 90 kilometers up the Sura, and 123 kilometers up the Vetluga River, and siltation would intensify within …
Chemical Industry of Nizhny Novgorod OblastIndustry came to Chernorech'ye — a locality near the Oka, named after the Chyornaya River — with the arrival of the railway [1]. In the 1860s a small halt called …
Chernigovskaya StreetChernigovskaya Street is the lower embankment of the Oka; its old name was Blagoveshchenskaya Sloboda, Nizhne-Okskaya Embankment.
Doskino… line on uninhabited land amid forests and marshes. The name was transferred from the opposite bank of the Oka River, where the nearest populated places were located — the selo of Bolshoye Doskino and the village of Maloye …
DudenevoView of the opposite bank of the Oka and the Shukhov Tower from Dudenevo
Dyatlov HillsDyatlov Hills — a scenic high escarpment along the Oka near the confluence of that river with the Volga, a chain of seven ravine-cut hills on the right bank of …
DzerzhinskChernorech'ye… Virgin conifer forests, birch and oak groves, the full-flowing Oka, numerous lakes and streams, water meadows overgrown with bird cherry, currant, and blackberry bushes, …
Dzerzhinsky DistrictThe administrative center of the district was Dzerzhinsk, a major industrial city on the Oka River. The district is mentioned among the territorial units associated with Dzerzhinsk and the Nizhny Novgorod …
Erzyan Mastor… portion of the trade routes running from the south, east, and northeast along the rivers Rav (Volga), Oka, Tsna, and Sura, which flowed through its territory. The Don River connected the Land of the Erzya with …
Fedorovsky EmbankmentFedorovsky Embankment runs along the ridge of Otkos in Nizhegorodsky District, above the Oka, between Dyatlov Hills and the Kremlin. Its historical name — Verkhnye-Okskaya — first appeared in the …
Floating CityA beach is planned for the stretch of the Oka where the non-freezing effluents from the Avtozavod flow.
Floating House… a hotel, a restaurant, a pontoon, a raft, a floating bridge, and a floating pier [1]. On the Volga and the Oka, such dwellings have a long history of their own: first came barge-wharves with small houses for staff, …
Forerunner of Nizhny Novgorod… conflicts did indeed weaken the local tribes, and Andrei Bogolyubsky drove them away from the mouth of the Oka. The legend seemed plausible to contemporaries as well, so much so that S. M. Soloviev included it in his …
Founding of Nizhny NovgorodThe great prince Yuri founded a town against the Bulgars at the mouth of the Oka River, naming it Novgorod Nizhny, for there had previously been a Bulgarian town Tatishchev V.N., historian
GOU DOD DSOOTs LazurnyGOU DOD DSOOTs "Lazurny" is a children's health camp in the Vyksunsky District. Located on the Oka River.
GorbatovGorbatov is a town in Pavlovsky District on the bank of the Oka (a river landing) 45 km from the district center. The distance to Vorsma station is 12 km. The smallest town …
GorodThe title reflects the traditional view that the "real," "old" Gorod is located in Dyatlov Hills at the mouth Oka River in contrast to its new outskirts, which no one had thought to fortify over the centuries and which, …
GrebeshokGrebeshok (Yarilina Gora) — a territory in the Nizhegorodsky District along the steep slopes of the Oka River River bank, to the south of The Rumbling Mountain.
Grebnevsky CanalGrebnevsky Canal is an arm of the Oka River within the city limits of Nizhny Novgorod, 130 to 150 meters wide, separating Grebnevskiye Peski …
Grebnevsky SandsGrebnevskie (Grebnyovskie) Peski — a sandy island within the city limits of Nizhny Novgorod on the Oka River, stretching along the Yarmarchnaya Embankment to Kanavinsky Bridge.
Gremyachevo… of Nizhny Novgorod Region. It is located on the left bank of the Tyosha River (a right tributary of the Oka). It consists of two microdistricts, Gremyachevo-1 and Gremyachevo-2, located 0.5 km apart.
Historic CenterThis area should not be confused with the wealthy district of Historic Buildings near Arrow and for Oka River - former territory Nizhny Novgorod Yarmarka and Canavino.
KanavinoKanavino — the riverside part of Nizhny Novgorod on the left bank of the Oka, near the Strelka. It grew from the Kunavinskaya sloboda (a settlement of taxable residents), was a fair …
Kanavinsky BridgeKanavinsky Bridge (obsolete Kanavinsky Bridge) — the first of the permanent bridges over the Oka River, located within Nizhny Novgorod. The bridge's original name was simply "Oksky".
KaravaikhaThe name comes from a loaf-shaped hill on the high bank of the Oka.
Karpovskaya Church… Orthodox church in Leninsky District of Nizhny Novgorod, at 58 Suzdalskaya Street, on the left bank of the Oka. [1] [2] The stone building was consecrated in 1817 and reached its present form following a reconstruction …
Kazanskaya EmbankmentKazanskaya Embankment is a Nizhny Novgorod, running along Oka River in the lower part of the city, in the area of Sennaya Square. Located along this embankment are a number of …
Kishma RiverKishma is a river in Nizhny Novgorod Region, a right tributary of the Oka. It is 71 km long, with a drainage basin area of 795 km². It flows through Vachsky, Sosnovskiy, and …
Komsomolskaya SquareKomsomolskaya Square (Square of Pillars) — a traffic interchange on the bank of the Oka, located at the exit from Komsomolskoe Highway and Oktyabrskoy Revolyutsii Street onto the Molitovsky …
Komsomolskoe HighwayThe starting point is Komsomolskaya Square on the bank of the Oka, where Molitovsky Bridge descends from the Upper Town side and Oktyabrskoy Revolyutsii Street and …
Krasnoselskaya StreetKrasnoselskaya Street (formerly Krestovozdvizhenskaya, Nekrasova) — runs from Lyadov Square to the Oka.
Kulebaki… the city flows the strikingly beautiful Tyosha River — with its forested banks, a right tributary of the Oka River.
Leninsky District… a predominantly industrial district in the Zarechka (low-bank) part of Nizhny Novgorod, stretching from the Oka River toward Sormovo District.
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Little Venice… canals and restoring those once filled in. The rivers that flow through Zarechye will be cut off from the Oka at their mouths by ten-metre dams, and pumps will raise the water to a height of 5 m. As of 2012 the cost of …
Meteor (hydrofoil)… built June 1972, also registered Nizhny Novgorod / Gorky). [3] The vessels operated on Volga, the Kama, the Oka, and other rivers; some units were exported to Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Greece. [3]
Metro… panoramic panels depicting views of the city. A landmark in its own right is the Metro Bridge across the Oka, which brought the line into the Upper Town. [3]
Mikhail Alferyev… Yakovlevich worked alongside his students in building a line of defence near the selo of Varezh on the Oka. He organized military training for institute staff and served on the air-defence team. Alferyev was …
Mikhail Vorotynskiy… ancient center of their appanage principality — the town of Vorotynsk, situated in the upper reaches of the Oka. In time it fell into decline and eventually became a selo (a larger village). Yet on the Nizhny Novgorod …
Mochalnyy IslandKarelin. View of the Nizhny Novgorod Yarmarka, Mochalny Island, and the wharves on the Oka. 1870s
Molitovsky BridgeMolitovsky Bridge is a bridge across the Oka, located within Nizhny Novgorod. It connects the upper (Upper Town) part of the city with the lower (…
Monument to Merchant GreedIn 1964, after a flood, the salt warehouses along the bank of the Oka turned out to be empty.
Murom (Wikipedia)Murom is a city in Vladimir Oblast, situated on the right bank of the Oka River, one of the oldest cities of Rus. In the context of Nizhny Novgorod's history it is mentioned as a …
MuromaPresent-day Murom (Wikipedia). A view of the Oka
Myzinskiy BridgeMyzinsky Bridge is a road bridge across the Oka in Nizhny Novgorod, linking the upland and Zarechye parts of the city: on the right bank it begins at …
NavashinoThe town is situated on the right bank of the Oka River, 158 km from Nizhny Novgorod. It has a railway station on the Gorky Railway line running Moscow — …
Navashinskiy DistrictIn October 1907, a shipbuilding yard was laid down on the right bank of the Oka River in its old channel. In 1912, the Navashino station of the Moscow–Kazan Railway was built, running through …
Nizhegorodsky District… district of Nizhny Novgorod. It is situated in the Upper Town of the city, dominating the confluence of the Oka and the Volga.
Nizhne-Okskaya Embankment… believe that it was once the starting point for the development of embankments along the right banks of the Oka and the Volga — so completely has this place lost its status and appeal over recent decades, reduced to an …
Nizhnevolzhskaya EmbankmentAt first a site opposite the pontoon bridge across the Oka was identified, but on 7 December 1891 the exchange committee requested the center of Sofronovskaya Square; …
Nizhny NovgorodNizhny Novgorod — a city at the confluence of the Volga and Oka rivers, the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Region and the capital of the Volga Federal District. …
Nizhny Novgorod Agglomeration… settlement pattern: roughly one-quarter of its territory lies on the high upland bank of the Volga and the Oka, while more than three-quarters occupies the low-lying bank and the Zavolzhye area.
Nizhny Novgorod MilitiaI live on the Volga and the Oka, And since childhood I have dreamed of a great war. Over the years I've saved up a tidy sum of cash, And …
Nizhny Novgorod Port… (inclusive)," and from a collection of scattered, unimproved wharves situated on the natural banks of the Oka River and the Volga in the areas of the Strelka, the Siberian Wharves, Molitovka, and the Nizhnevolzhskaya …
Nizhny Posad… principality began settling the area of Nizhny Posad (Nizhny Bazaar) along the coastal strip between the Oka and the escarpment in the 13th–14th centuries.
Obran Osh… the Erzya lands of the Nizhny Novgorod region tells that an Erzya man named Abramka came to the mouth of the Oka from beyond the Kudma River, settled on the Dyatlov Hills, and built seventeen houses for his children. The …
Otkos… bounded to the north and east by the valley of the Volga, to the west and southwest by the valley of the Oka, and to the south and southeast by the valleys of the Kova and Rakhma rivers. The watershed separating the …
PavlovoPavlovo arose in the 16th century as a settlement at a river crossing over the Oka River on the road from Nizhny Novgorod to Moscow. It is believed that its founder was a ferryman named Pavel, …
PikshenIn the west, the border between the lands of the Erzya and the Moksha was considered to be the Oka River; the northern border ran along the Oka and the Volga, the eastern one along the Sura, and the southern one …
Pochaina Ravine… The entire Upper Town sits on a peninsula formed by the channels of the two greatest rivers in Europe — the Oka and the Volga, connected to the mainland only from the south; and right at the top of this peninsula, at …
Portal: Culture… varied influences that acted over millennia upon a community going about its affairs in the area where the Oka and the Volga meet — a district strategic for eastern Europe.
Prioksky District… districts of Nizhny Novgorod. It is located in the Upper Town part of the city, stretching along the Oka River, and borders Sovetsky District and Avtozavodsky District Districts of Nizhny Novgorod and the Kstovsky …
Raising the Cheboksary Reservoir Level… reservoir to its design elevation is linked to a rise of more than 4 meters in the levels of the Volga and Oka rivers in Nizhny Novgorod.
Raspberry RidgeMalinovaya Gryada is a locality on the right bank of the Oka in the southern part of Prioksky District. It is an elongated hill running along the riverbank. The name …
Re-opening of criminal case over Novinki landslides… over the ongoing landslides in the settlement of Novinki, which threaten private homes on the slope along Oka River. The trigger was an appeal by local residents to the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, …
River Station… with waiting halls on Markin Square), formerly Markin Square, opposite the Strelka, the confluence of the Oka and the Volga. The terminal building is currently occupied by the transport company JSC "Volga Shipping …
Romodanovskiy Railway StationRomodanovskiy (or, colloquially, the Kazansky) Station was built in Nizhny Novgorod on the bank of the Oka in 1904. It is no longer in operation.
Rozhdestvenskaya… Nizhny's former commercial and business center. It is no accident that the district along the banks of the Oka and the Volga was known as the Lower Bazaar. Banks, shipping offices, shops, trading arcades, restaurants, …
Rozhdestvenskaya (Stroganovskaya) Church… the River Station; from the second tier of the bell tower one can see the confluence of the Volga and the Oka [2] [19]. The church was built at the expense of the salt industrialist Grigory Dmitrievich Stroganov: …
RussiansAn expedition along the Oka near Nizhny Novgorod for the project " Sails Over Russia ": studying the native landscape and visiting the …
Sails Over RussiaA tourist cruise aboard the "Martin" along the Oka. Molitovsky Bridge.
Sartakovo… Bogorodsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Region. Not far from the village, on the right bedrock slope of the Oka, lies the Sartakovo landslide. Near the village there is a spring known as "Knyaz Vladimirsky." The name …
Shava River… to the Upper Volga basin district; the river's water management section is the Volga from the mouth of the Oka to the Cheboksary hydroelectric complex (Cheboksary Reservoir), excluding the Sura River and Vetluga rivers; …
Skugarevskaya Yulia VladimirovnaThe swing was built exactly according to the drawing and installed on the slope overlooking the Oka in Prioksky District. "Before this, I had only ever seen panoramic swings in Moscow, which is why I drew …
SormovoKanavino beyond the Oka became, in the 19th century, the center of the all-Russian Makaryev Yarmarka after it was relocated to …
StrelitsaThe area at the confluence of the Oka and the Volga was called Strelitsa, as its shape resembles an arrow. Before the founding of the Kunavino …
Strelitskiy StanStrelitskiy Stan (Strelitsa) — the territories on the right bank of the Volga at the mouth of the Oka, opposite the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin.
Strelka… local history museum of the city of Bor on the Peoples of Nizhny Novgorod living near the confluence of the Oka and the Volga: " Muroma their own tongue, Mordva their own tongue, and the Cheremis their own tongue "
TarkaTarka — a river in Pavlovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Region. A right tributary of the Oka. Length: 13 km. Its source lies near the village of Shishkino. It flows through hilly, karst-affected …
The Ababkovsky St. George and St. Nicholas ConventAbabkovo Georgievsky Nikolaevsky Convent is a women's monastery on the right bank of the Oka near the village of Ababkovo in Pavlovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Region, one of ten Nizhny Novgorod …
The Bashkirovs… And Matvey Emelyanovich, in a short time, by 1895, built in Nizhny Novgorod, on the right bank of the Oka, beneath Grebeshok, behind the Blagoveshchensky Monastery, a powerful steam mill that let him match his …
The Curse of the Nizhny Novgorod ProstitutesOn the high bank of the Volga, at the place where the Oka flows into it, on the Dyatlov Hills, stands the Kremlin. Around it is the business part of the city with …
The History of Nizhny Novgorod… been preoccupied with, perhaps, just one question — the time at which the city arose at the mouth of the Oka. The answer offered by the Old Russian chronicles seems obvious: 1221. Yet it immediately raises a further …
The Nizhny Novgorod Mentality… city into an upper and a lower part, its location at the confluence of two major rivers — the Volga and the Oka. Geography and landscape have undoubtedly shaped the fate, history and mentality of the city's residents. …
The Peremilov MountainsPeremilovskiye Hills (in old books, Peremilovy Hills) are an upland on the right bank of the Oka in its lower course, within Nizhny Novgorod Region: the Oka-side part of the Starodubye upland at the …
The Volga Flows into the Oka, or the Oka Flows into the Volga" Strelka " — the confluence of the Oka and the Volga. 1975. In the foreground is the Rozhdestvenskaya (Stroganovskaya) Church), in whose …
The village of ShchitkovyShchitkovy Settlement is located in Leninsky District, between Lenin Avenue and the Oka. It arose in the 1930s during the construction of several factories — a place where workers huddled in …
Torpedo Residential Complex… The complex is located on Boris Vidyayev Street (also referenced by the address Maloyetazhnaya Street) along the Oka River, near the regional natural monument " Malyshevskiye Grivy." In terms of scale, the developer positions the …
Tyosha RiverTyosha River is a right tributary of the Oka, flowing through the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
Upper Town… " the Upper Part " of Nizhny Novgorod — the main part of Nizhny Novgorod, situated on the high banks of the Oka and the Volga, separated from the western part by the Oka River. It is home to the administrative center …
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Vasily Kalashnikov… tower was installed in the Upper Town of the city, to which water was to be pumped through pipes from the Oka by pumps purchased in England, Vasily Ivanovich flatly declared that the pumps "would not lift the water …
Verkhniye Pechyory… The ravines formed because of the softness of the rocks that make up the massif of the right bank of the Oka and the Volga, which makes them weak, loose, and easily eroded by rainwater and by the streams produced …
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg… modest luggage was loaded. They made their way on foot from Kanavino to Sverdlov Street, crossing the Oka over the snow-covered ice… For more than 15 years, Ginzburg worked simultaneously at two research centers — …
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Volga BeachesVolga Beaches — city swimming spots on the banks of the Volga and the Oka. Article stub: the photographs show what the beaches looked like in the Soviet years — wooden pavilions, …
Volga Region… of the first two: the Verkhnevolzhye is considered to extend from the Volga's source to the mouth of the Oka River — that is, precisely to Nizhny Novgorod. [1]
Vorotynets… government had confiscated his lands of the Odoevsko-Novosilskoye Principality (in the upper reaches of the Oka), giving him in return Starodub Ryapolovsky with its district (except for villages held by hereditary …
Vorsma… — a town in Pavlovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia, on the river Kishma — a tributary of the Oka — 62 km to the southwest of Nizhny Novgorod [20] [5]. The founding year is 1588: this date is carved on a …
VyatichiThe Vyatichi were the first Slavic tribe to appear in the basin of the Oka, in its upper reaches. They were probably also the first Slavs to become neighbours of the proto-Nizhny …
Vyksunsky DistrictVyksunsky District is located in the southwest of the Nizhny Novgorod Region in the basin of the Oka River and borders Ryazan Region to the south and Vladimir Region to the west. To the north and northeast, …
Water Supply System in Nizhny NovgorodAround 1835 a society was formed to carry out a project by an obscure mechanic for lifting water from the Oka River or the Volga to the heights and constructing storage reservoirs.
Yuri Vsevolodovich… Bulgars and concluding a peace treaty with them, with the aim of securing the inter-river region for Rus’ Oka River and Volga, which Yuri Vsevolodovich founded in 1221 Nizhny Novgorod.
Zanoga VladimirThe hilly bank of the Oka. Painting by Vl. Zanoga
Zarechka… Novgorod is divided. It begins at the area lying opposite the Kremlin at the confluence of the Volga and the Oka River — the Arrow. It is also the Left-Bank Part of Nizhny Novgorod relative to the Oka River. It occupies …

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