The Oktyabrskaya Hotel is a three-star hotel in Nizhny Novgorod, located at 9A Verkhne-Volzhskaya Embankment, on the high bank of the Volga in the Historic Center of the city. It was built by order of the authorities of the City of Gorky in 1985 to accommodate business-trip specialists employed at the GAZ and Krasnoye Sormovo plants.
History and Renovation
Originally, the hotel's seven residential floors accommodated up to 250 guests. In 2005 the hotel was renovated: new entertainment areas were added at the cost of reducing the room count. After the completion of refurbishment work in 2007, the Oktyabrskaya was recognized as the best three-star hotel in the Russian Federation by the National Prize of the Federal Agency for Tourism. The hotel has undergone official classification and has been entered in the unified register of classified facilities in the tourist industry under registry number С522026025243.[4] In 2015 the hotel became the subject of filming for the television show Revizorro.
Architectural Context
In professional circles, the Oktyabrskaya is cited as a model of the contextual approach in architecture: the building's appearance does not dominate the embankment panorama but harmoniously complements the historic center of the city.[1] The hotel is located in immediate proximity to the Verkhne-Volzhskaya Embankment, the monument to Pyotr Nesterov, the Rukavishnikov Estate, the Skorbyanskaya Church, and Aleksandrovsky Garden.[2]
Facilities and Services
The room stock comprises 92 rooms of various categories, including standard and suite-class rooms with views of the Volga. On the premises there is the Premier restaurant, offering Russian and European cuisine, as well as a lobby bar operating around the clock. In the mornings the restaurant operates as a buffet; during the day it offers set lunches and business lunches, and also caters for banquets and memorial dinners.[5] The business center has three conference halls of varying capacities and two banquet halls; the main building's conference hall accommodates up to 50 people. Additional services include a sauna, spa, massage room, fitness center, billiards, free parking, and a luggage storage room.[2] Among the hotel's guests at various times have been the singer Nadezhda Babkina, the actor Valeriy Galkin, the singer Valeriy Syutkin, and the musician Konstantin Meladze.
Links
- Official website (oktyabrskaya.ru)
Design of the hotel began in 1982; the architects envisioned the future building as the fourth architectural landmark of the Otkos — alongside the railwaymen's apartment building, the ski jump, and the Georgievsky Tower of the Kremlin.[4]
Sources
- delfin-tour.ru — Design of the hotel began in 1982; the architects envisioned the future building as the fourth architectural landmark of the Otkos — alongside the railwaymen's apartment building
- oktyabrskaya.ru — The hotel restaurant operates as a breakfast buffet in the mornings, offers set lunches and business lunches during the day, and also hosts banquets and memorial dinners (archive)
- ru.trip.com (archive)
- 101hotels.com — OKTYABRSKAYA HOTEL NIZHNY NOVGOROD — photos and reviews, from 6700 (archive)
- oktyabrskaya.ru — Official room rates at the Oktyabrskaya Hotel, Nizhny Novgorod (archive)