Virtual tours of Nizhny Novgorod

Narrated routes through the city: the camera flies over places from the articles of the encyclopedia, the building itself lights up, and old photographs appear beside it. Everything runs in the browser, on a computer or a phone, with nothing to install.

10 stops · 4 minutes · narration and subtitles

Five Centuries Where the Oka Meets the Volga

From the stone kremlin of 1500 to the cable car above the Volga: the Stroganov church, the Nizhny Novgorod fair, the All-Russian Exhibition of 1896, the Chkalov staircase and the Strelka. At the Dmitrievskaya Tower the camera flies in to its three-dimensional model.

Stops: The Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, The Stroganov Church, The Makaryev Fair, The Nizhny Novgorod Fair, The Dmitrievskaya Tower, The State Bank Building, The Kanavinsky Bridge, The Chkalov Staircase, The Cable Car to Bor, The Strelka.

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10 stops · 4.5 minutes · photographs by Karelin and Dmitriev

A City on Glass Plates

A century and a half ago Andrey Karelin and Maxim Dmitriev photographed Nizhny Novgorod on glass plates. The camera stands where the photographer stood and shows the cathedrals, descents and river crossings that are gone.

Stops: The studio of Maxim Dmitriev, Blagoveshchenskaya Square, The cathedrals that are gone, Clock hill and the Minin garden, The kremlin funicular, The view from the Ivanovskaya Tower, The Zelensky descent and Balchug, Cosmas and Damian, and the crossing, The church of St George on the slope, Grebeshok.

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На русском языке — виртуальные экскурсии по Нижнему Новгороду.