Five Centuries Where the Oka Meets the Volga

The camera flies over ten places from the encyclopedia — from the stone kremlin of 1500 to the cable car above the Volga. At every stop the building itself lights up, with an archive photograph beside it.

1. 1500The Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
2. 1719The Stroganov Church
3. 1816The Makaryev Fair
4. 1822The Nizhny Novgorod Fair
5. 1896The Dmitrievskaya Tower
6. 1913The State Bank Building
7. 1935The Kanavinsky Bridge
8. 1949The Chkalov Staircase
9. 2012The Cable Car to Bor
10. todayThe Strelka

The route in text: every stop, its photographs and links to articles

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