Pokhvalinsky Descent (formerly Oksky, Komsomolsky) runs down from Maslyakova Street to Kanavinsky Bridge.
Along the Gremyachy Ravine to Kanavinsky Bridge In the mid-19th century Khramtsovsky wrote that "Pokhvalinsky Descent begins next to Pokhvalinskaya Street and ends at the square by the Kunavino ferry crossing. It is laid through a ravine known in olden times as Gremyachy: both the ravine and the hill itself bore the name Gremyachy after the spring that flowed through the ravine and 'gremel' — murmured — quite loudly. At the end of the descent stands the chapel of St. Alexis the Metropolitan." This chapel has not survived to the present day. In historical photographs from 1870–1895, the chapel of the Ponetaevsky Monastery can be seen on the left side of Pokhvalinsky Descent.[1] Pokhvalinsky Descent connected the lower part of the city with Grebeshok, the Bolshiye Ovragi, and the Yamskaya streets. In the Grebeshok area, the Nikolsky and Grebeshkovsky descents also ran down: the first from the western side of the Blagoveschensky Monastery, the second from the vodka distillery. But both of these descents, according to Khramtsovsky, were inconvenient, and today they are practically unknown to Nizhny Novgorod residents.
Next to Pokhvalinsky Descent there operated the city's second lift, the Pokhvalinsky elevator. Both elevators, the Pokhvalinsky and the Kremlin one, were put into operation in 1896 for the All-Russian Exhibition. The Pokhvalinsky was dismantled in 1927 during the reconstruction of the descent and, unlike the Kremlin one, has not been restored: for more on the second lift, see the article The Nizhny Novgorod Funicular".
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- pro-nn.org — Nizhny Novgorod. Pokhvalinsky Descent (archive)