Nizhny Norgorod by Andrew NNGrad

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Nizhny Novgorod THE CAPITAL OF THE GREAT VOLGA

A city on the confluence of the Volga and the Oka

a city of picturesque landscapes and original architecture

the second ancient million-plus city in Russia

a city founded by a saint

the capital of Nizhny Novgorod and Suzdal princedom

the major military outpost of Vladimir and Suzdal Rus

the birthplace of the national unity

the Russian capital of merchants on the Great Silk Way

the birthplace of the geniuses of literature and art

the world centre of radio physics

a city of science and unique engineering

the birthplace of ground effect vehicles, hydrofoils and air-cushion vehicles

the birthplace of MiGs, automobiles “Volga” and the first Soviet jeep – “GAZ-64”

the terra incognita of the USSR

the cruise capital of Russia

the business capital of the Volga

a European city of Russia

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Nizhny Novgorod is the capital of Privolzhsky Federal District, the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod region, the biggest business and cultural centre on the Volga, an important economic and transportation centre of the country. It is the fifth populous biggest city of Russia, within 400 km from Moscow and within 1140 km from Saint-Petersburg. The city is located on the confluence of the Volga, the biggest river in Europe, and its tributary â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Oka. The city is spread over 400 sq. km., which is a bit more than the territory of the island Malta and a bit less than the territory of Andorra. Nizhny Novgorod is one of the most ancient and picturesque cities of Russia. It is the geographical centre of the East European (Russian) Plain. The incredible beauty of the city is created by the unique landscape and diverse scenery: the low-lying left bank area of the Great Volga Plain is found side by side with the soaring steep slopes of the Dyatlov Hills of the Volga Upland. Nizhny Novgorod is the capital of Nizhny Novgorod and Suzdal princedom, the birthplace of the volunteer army of 1612, the capital of merchants the symbol of which is still the Nizhny Novgorod Trade Fair. In Soviet times it was famous as the major centre of car industry, shipbuilding, aircraft industry and radio physics; now it is widely renowned as a centre of IT and nanotechnology, a river cruise centre and a city where the biggest forums and international exhibitions take place. 1932 till 1990 the city had the name of Gorky in honour of the great Russian writer Maxim Gorky. From 1959 to 1991 Gorky was closed to foreigners. Welcome to Nizhny Novgorod, an ancient, picturesque, spiritually and intellectually rich city tinged with an air of mystery!

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The history Nizhny Novgorodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s centuries-long history starts from the beginning of the XIII century. The city was founded in 1221 by Yuri (Georgy) Vsevolodovich, the Grand Prince of Vladimir. Being military and strategically favourably located, the city played an important role as a military outpost of Vladimir Suzdal Rus up to the middle of the XVI century, shielding the borders of Russian princedoms from the raids of Mordva, Cheremis and the Tatars. In the 15th â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 17th centuries Nizhny Novgorod was an uezd (secondary-level of administrative division) city, since 1714 it was a gubernia city (secondary-level of administrative division), since 1932 it was renamed as Gorky and became the centre of Gorky krai (sub-region) and later the centre of Gorky region. In 1990 the city received its prior name Nizhny Novgorod.

1.Ivanovkaya Tower of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin 2. The monument to the founders of Nizhny Novgorod

From 1341 to 1392, over 50 years, Nizhny Novgorod was the capital of the independent Nizhny Novgorod Suzdal princedom, which spread over a vast territory from Kurmysh in the East to Murom in the West, including the cities of Suzdal and Shuya. In that time the Pechersky Monastery was set up and there one of the earliest chronicles the “Laurentian Codex” was compiled. In the XVI century Nizhny Novgorod performed an important historical mission for Russia. In the time of troubles Kuzma Minin, a respected member of the Zemstvo, called the people of Nizhny Novgorod to form a volunteer army in order to liberate the State from invaders. Each yard of Nizhny Novgorod contributed a fifth part of its property to the armament of the troops. The volunteer army headed by Kuzma Minin and the talented commander Dmitry Pozharsky liberated Rus from the foreign invasion and contributed to the formation of Russian statehood. For its people’s feat Nizhny Novgorod was conferred the title of the birthplace of the volunteer army and became the centre of “The National Unity Day” holiday.

3. G.G. Chernetsov “Nizhny Novgorod”, 1838

In the 19th century the city became famous as a merchant capital or in other words “a pocket” of Russia owning to Nizhny Novgorod Fair.

Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum

It was a major Russian trade centre with Europe and Asia.

The trade facilities used to occupy a vast area (500 thousand of sq. m). There worked an exchange market where prices for a wide range of good were fixed and 14 major banks with turnover estimated up to 350 million of Rubles a year at the Fair. There were sold thousands kinds of goods, including tea and silk from China, cotton from America, vine from Europe, pearls from India. 15 thousand of merchants took part in trades. Trade and economic significance made Nizhny Novgorod the third major city in Russia.

4. P. Vereshchagin “Market in Nizhny Novgorod”, 1872 Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum 4

In the 19th century an at the beginning of the 20th century shipbuilding yards, various workhouses and factories were built in the city and it began to develop as a major industrial centre of the city.

5. A.P. Bogolyubov “Cityscape of Nizhny Novgorod”, 1978 The Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

5 6. General bird’s eye view of Nizhny Novgorod Fair. Chromolithograph, 600×805 mm. Lithography of Partnership of I.D. Sytin in Moscow, 1896

In Soviet times, apart from being an important scientific and industrial centre of the country, it became a closed city for several decades, being a military and strategic centre. Russian car industry was launched there (“GAZ”), cars “Volga” and the first Russian jeeps “GAZ-64” rolled off the assembly line, there appeared secret plants and design engineering departments responsible for the building of radiolocation stations, submarines, MiG fighters, hydrofoils and ground effect vehicles .

The city contributed to World War II providing the army with tanks (T-34 were the best tanks of the World War II), guns (100000 is the world record), fighter planes, automobiles, radio sets, intercoms etc. At the end of the XX century the city was recognised not only as the scientific and machinery business capital of the Volga region, but also as a centre of information and innovative technologies. The repertoire of Nizhny Novgorod history can be viewed at the official city guide.

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Records and Achievements

1. A view of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin area 2.3. The general view of Nizhny Novgorod Fair. 1896. Photo by M. Dmitriev 2

Nizhny Novgorod became word-wide famous owning to All-Russia Art and Industry Exhibition of 1896 – the most immense one in Russia. Nizhny Novgorod has become the one and sole non-capital city chosen for the exhibition. The exhibition surpassed the similar exhibition that took place at the beginning of the 20th century in Paris. By the opening date of the exhibition there had appeared the first electrically driven tram, cable railway, the splendid building of the Drama Theatre, the first museum and many other things in Nizhny Novgorod.

4. The water tower designed by V. G. Shukhov 5. V.G. Shukhov

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All-Russia Exhibition has become a testing site for the world number one engineer Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov. He designed and constructed all the major exhibition halls using his own technology of grilled covering and lathe object approach. The open-work metal 32 meters high water tower was considered to be one of the Exhibition symbols.

6. Ground effect vehicle (ekranoplanes) 7. Hydrofoilequipped watercraft 8. A fighter produced by plant “Sokol”

Nizhny Novgorod engineering school developed the industry of the city and the country. The fastest fighter planes were and still are produced at the plant “Sokol”. The world’s first fighter cabin monoplane I-16 with a retractable landing gear was produced at the plant from 1934 to 1941. MiG-19 (1954–1957) was the world’s first seriesproduced supersonic fighter. MiG-31 (1976–1994), a heavy strategic fighter, unparalleled in its tactical and combat characteristics, set up 6 world records for climb ability and flight altitude. With MiG-25 (1965–1985) Fedotov, a test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, set up an all-time record for flight altitude (37650 metres) in 1977. 9. GAZ-М-1 10. GAZ-АА

One of the country’s first shipbuilding plants, the Sormovo plant “Krasnoye Sormovo”, produced river steamers, motor ships, sea-going vessels and submarines, steam engines and diesel engines, locomotives and carriages, ammunition and tanks T-34. Many things at the plant were and are still made for the first time ever: in 1870 – the first open-hearth furnace, in 1871 – the first double-decker paddle-boat “Perevorot”, in 1920 – the first Soviet tank, in 1957 – the first world’s hydrofoil “Raketa”. The sea-going vessel “Kometa” (1961) was the first vessel bought by a foreign country – Japan. Hydrofoils and then ground effect vehicles were designed by the outstanding design engineer Rostislav Evgenievich Alekseev (1916–1980). At “Krasnoye Sormovo” the best submarines of the XXI century, atomic submarines “Barrakuda” and “Kondor” are made. The first Soviet automobile plant with flow-line production was built in Nizhny Novgorod in an incredibly short time from 1930 to 1932. Near the plant there was built Sotsgorod – the first example of complex urban development in the country. The first home-produced car GAS-M-1 rolled off the production line on March 16, 1936. The first car people could buy was GAS-M20 which was rolled off the production line on November 6, 1944 and it was named “Pobeda” in 1945. The GrandPrize of Brussel’s Universal Industrial Exhibition in 1958 was awarded to GAZ-21 “Volga”, GAZ-13 “Chaika” and GAZ-52.

Among Nizhny Novgorod genius inventors is Ivan Kulibin, one of his masterpieces is displayed in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. An employee of Nizhny Novgorod Radiolaboratory, Oleg Losev, has invented one of the most important things of the century – the first semi-conducted radio transmitter – device “Kristadin” and also has discovered phenomenon of electroluminescence (LED prototype). The official city guide of Nizhny Novgorod is www.visitnn.com

The Sights The sights of Nizhny Novgorod belong to the golden reserve of Russia and are the treasury of national importance. We invite you to set off in quest of these treasures and discover one of the most beautiful Russian city.

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Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin – "a stone necklace at the slope of Dyatlovy Hills" 1. The building of the State Bank 2. The view of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin at the Volga side

This is the brightest precious among the sights of Nizhny Novgorod. The Kremlin in Nizhny Novgorod is a monument of city planning and architecture of federal importance. The stone Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin was built in 1500–1511. It is the unique Kremlin in Russia located at the relief level difference (82 meters) and the first stone artillery-oriented fortress. That was the first fortress construction with towers built beyond the wall line. The technology was unique for that time (according to one of the version, the technology was invented by Leonardo da Vinci) made the fortress inaccessible and it has been never occupied by enemy. The Kremlin used to consist of 14 towers and 13 have been preserved and renovated up till now, their former height was 33

meters. The Kremlin walls were up to 3 meters wide and were crowned by covered gallery with firing ports. The length of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin walls is 2080 meters (only 150 meters shorter than Moscow Kremlin). The areas of the two Kremlins are similar too: Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin is 45 hectares and Moscow Kremlin is 47 hectares. The group of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin buildings is a museum, cultural and business city centre. There are 15 historical and cultural monuments, a museum and an exhibition centre, the Cathedral of Archangel Michael and the Chapel in the name of the Saviour Not Made by Hands, an ancient Governor’s garden with unforgettable view at the Conflux and Volga valleys.

The building of the State Bank – "The golden Pocket of Russia" The building of the State Bank of the Russian Federation at Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street was constructed for the 300th anniversary of the Romanovs. The group of bank buildings were designed by an architect V.A. Pokrovsky in Russian Revival architecture style and is remarkable for capital immensity and rich decoration reminding both a medieval castle and boyar chambers of the 17th century with hiproofed porch. Nearby is a small tower with city-clock-chime.

The building of the bank has always served its direct aim. There was kept the main golden reserve of the Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century that is why the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Sberbank was called “the golden pocket of Russia”. The interior of the building are decorated with rich paintings made by the sketch of a Russian painter I. Y. Bilibin. In 2013 the city will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the bank. There are guided tours in the bank building.

3. The paintings in the interior of the State Bank 4. The porch of the State Bank

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The Chkalov Stairway One of the most well-known symbols of Nizhny Novgorod is the famous memorial Chkalov Stairway. The authors of the longest rise at the riverbanks of the Volga are the famous architects A.A. Yakovlev, L.V. Rudnev and V.O. Mints. It starts at the sightseeing platform at the monument to the great Russian pilot, Valery Chkaov, who first in the world made a nonstop flight through the North Pole. Descending to the Volga the stairway connects The Minin Square and Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment via huge rings. The immense 560 steps long construction

foundation was made in 1943 in the honour of the Stalingrad battle victory and already in 1949 one was able to go down to the Volga to the place where a legend motor boat “Hero” (“Geroy”) was mounted. There is located an ancient park “Alexandrovsky Garden” to the left of the Chkalov Stairway and the route along the outside of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin (from Zachatievskaya Tower to Dmitrievskaya Tower) begins to the right of the nigntclub “Premio”.

Merchant Chatygin House There are only 16 civil stone buildings of XVII century, remaining in Russia, and three of them are in Nizhny Novgorod. These are the stone house of merchant Chatygin, the house of burgomaster Pushnikov (Gogolya str., 52) and the house of merchant Olisov (Krutoy lane, 11b). You can admire these rare buildings and its laconic and moderate architecture in Nizhny Novgorod Zapochainie which is a city district beyond the Pochaina River. One of these old Russian masterpieces is the Merchant Chatygin House, or, how it is popularly called, “Peter`s House” (Pochainskaya str., 27). Here Tsar Peter I stayed in 1695 during the preparations for the Azov campaign, in 1722, when he set off for the Persian campaign, here he also celebrated his 50th anniversary and the 500th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod.

Masterpieces of Nizhny Novgorod architecture school Architectural concept of the group of buildings on M.Pokrovskaya Street, 7, proposed by the Nizhny Novgorod architects by the close of XX century, strikes by its stylistic continuity in regard to the building of the State Bank built in the early XX century. The complicated architecture of the house-“cofferet” or house which is “quoting” fashion trends of the past with an entrance resembling a “key hole” and ceramic art in the Bilibin style contrasts against the second modern part of the group of buildings aspiring to the future. Both buildings were awarded by the Russian State Prize. This group of buildings became one of the outstanding examples of the Nizhny Novgorod modern architecture school which ranks first as per the citation index in the world and Russian specialized print media. 10

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Main Fair House is a symbol of Russian merchantry

The biggest multifunctional building of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair was erected in the style of old Russian architecture of XVII century. The building was constructed in 1889 (just in 1 year) upon the projects of architects A.I. von Hohen, G.A.Trambitsky, K.V. Treyman.

It was an administrative center of the fair, here the apartment of the governor and his office were situated during the fair time, the fair office and committee, a branch of the state bank were also stationed here, and the shops in the beautiful arcades on the ground floor were always busy. For two centuries the Fair House has been a principal place of business of Russian merchants.

Monument to Kuzma MININ and Dmitry POZHARSKY A new square – Square of National Unity (Ploshchad Narodnogo Edinstva) was opened in 2005 in Nizhny Novgorod at the beginning of Rozhdestvenskaya Street, against the walls of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin and the Church of the Nativity of St John the Baptist where once the famous appeal for rescue of the Motherland was heard. The monument to Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky by Z.Tsereteli was erected in the middle of the square. This is a reduced copy of the monument done upon the project of A.I.Melnikov and I.P.Martos which is situated now on Red Square in Moscow, but was initially designed in XIX century for Nizhny Novgorod.

Building of the City Duma and fountain The impressive building of the former City Duma (later renamed – Palace of Labour) is also one of the landmarks of the city. The building was erected in 1903 for the City Duma upon the project of architect V.P.Tseydler. It beautifully decorates Minin and Pozharsky Square, smoothly harmonizing with the ancient walls of Kremlin, and at the same time it sets the style of the main street of the city – Bolshaya Pokrovskaya. The mini-park on Minin and Pozharsky Square is decorated with an old cast-iron fountain. It was opened in 1847. The author of the project was the genial engineer A.I.Delvig, who managed the building of Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod railway and designed the first public waterworks system in Nizhny Novgorod. At present the fountain became also a light-musical one and in wintertime luxurious lighting of the fountain, arches and lanterns turns this cozy city mini-park to a small fairy land.

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Museums Nizhny Novgorod is home to over 60 museums, exhibition halls and galleries where you can learn about the city’s history, lives and work of its celebrities, achievements in art and culture, science and engineering. The major museum complex is Nizhny Novgorod State Reserve-Museum of History and Architecture (NNSRMHA).

The main building of the Reserve-Museum is situated in the Mansion of Rukavishnikov. The Museum comprises the Kremlin of Nizhny Novgorod with an exhibition hall in the Dmitrievskaya Tower, Nizhny Novgorod Povolzhye Peoples' Architecture and Life Museum at Schelkovsky Khutor, the only Russian Museum of History of Handicrafts which hosts unique folk craft artefacts of Nizhny Novgorod region, Nizhny Novgorod Ostrog (the former regional prison) at Svoboda square, the Museum of Intelegentsia, showing the life of the XIX century commons and a mini-museum – M.I. Sverdlov’s engraving workshop with an exhibition hall devoted to Bolshaya Pokrovskaya – the main street of Nizhny Novgorod.

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The main building of NNSRMHA – Mansion Museum of Rukavishnikov (Verkhnevolzhskaya embankment, 7)

1. Memorial estate A luxurious palace of Sergey Mikhailovich Rukavishnikov built in of S.M. Rukavish- 1877 in the style of Italian palazzo is the most picturesque building nikov 2. Main staircase of the estate 3. Decoration of the front of the estate

absolutely the same as it is described in the well-known novel “The Damned Race”. Nowadays both its luxurious interior and the rich museum collection convey the peculiar atmosphere, life and tastes of Nizhny Novgorod’s noble men and merchants of the past.

of Nizhny Novgorod, a real beauty of the main Nizhny Novgorod promenade – Verkhne-Volzhskaya embankment.

In the museum you can see the architectural peculiarities of the building, appreciate the beauty of the interior, its style and art value. From the guided tour you can learn the history of the house and its inhabitants. It will also be of interest to see historical exhibitions in the halls of the museum, to attend concerts that take place at week-ends and holidays and take part in interactive programmes for both children and adults.

The project of turning an ordinary building into a palace was carried out by the architect P.S. Boytsov while the Saint-Petersburg sculptor M.O. Mikeshin was in charge of its marvelous external decoration. The museum collections, which have more than 300 thousand artefacts, are over one hundred years old. The house steeped in legend is situated in Volzhsky Otkos. After the restoration it looks

The Kremlin of Nizhny Novgorod

(The Kremlin, Minin and Pozharsky square)

4 4. Exposition in Ivanovskaya Tower 5. Ivanovskaya Tower of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

There are expositions of exhibitions in two towers of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. The expositions dedicated to the history of the city foundation and history of the All-Russian artistic and industrial exhibition in 1896, as well as periodic exhibitions of the holdings of Nizhny Novgorod State Museum of History and Architecture are held in Dmitrievskya Tower of Kremlin, where the first city museum was opened in 1896.

The regular exposition “Heroic deed of the national unity” dedicated to the history of the people's volunteer corps in 1612 is situated in Ivanovskaya Tower of Kremlin. From May till November you can go for an exciting walk on the Kremlin walls admiring the views of the famous conflux of the Volga and Oka, Nizhny Novgorod Fair and Volga stretch to the horizon.

The Nizhny Novgorod Povolzhye People's Architecture and Life Museum (Gorbatovskaya street, 41)

6.7. Museum of architecture and life of the Nizhny Novgorod and Volga region people

One more gem of the collection of the museum complex NNSRMHA, Nizhny Novgorod Povolzhye Peoples' Architecture and Life Museum at Schelkovsky Khutor, is a unique open-air museum of wooden architecture. After a 15-minute drive from the city centre you will find yourself in a traditional Russian village of the XVII–XVIII centuries. Visitors can get into a beautifully carved izba transported from Kovernino – the birthplace of “gold Khokhloma” or in an ancient shingled church of

the XVII century built with no nails. Solid barns, drying houses, a mortar-well, windmills and picturesque scenery frequently attract filmmakers to the place. Such films as “The Cherry Orchard”, “The life of Klim Samgin”, “The Barber of Siberia”, “Children of the Arbat” were shot there. On Epiphany Day and on Maslenitsa Day this place is a popular celebration site where folk music is performed.

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1. Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum. Building of the former Governor House (Kremlin, building 3) 2. Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum. Building of the D.V.Sirotkin estate (Verkhnevolzhskaya str., 3) 1

3. Painting of K.E.Makovsky in a separate museum room

The Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum (NNSAM) (Building 3, the Kremlin; 3, Verkhnevolzhskaya Embankment) 3

The Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum is located in two buildings which are monuments of architecture and city buildings of federal significance: in the former Governor’s house (The Kremlin, building 3) and in the Mansion of the former mayor Sirotkin (VerkhneVolzhskaya Embenkment, 3).

renowned artists A.G. Venetsianov, V.A. Tropinin, V.G. Perov, N.A. Yaroshenko, I.N. Kramskoy, I.K. Aivazovsky, A.K. Savrasov, I.I. Shishkin, V.D. Polenov, I.I. Levitan, V.A. Serov, K.A. Korovin, F.A. Malyavin, M.V. Nesterov, K.S. Malevich, V.V. Kandinsky, N.K. Roerich and others.

The museum collection exceeds 12 thousand exhibits among which there are masterpieces of Russian, West-European and Oriental art.

In the separate hall of merchant D.V. Sirotkin’s house the biggest piece of Russian easel painting is displayed (the size of the canvas is 698 cm×594 cm) – a work by a well-known academic painter K.E. Makovsky (1839–1915) “The Call to Arms by Kuzma Minin”. It depicts the populous scene of handling funds donated by people for the volunteer army which liberated the country from foreign invaders in 1612.

The museum (the Governor’s House) displays a well-known picture “The Russian Venus” by B.M. Kustodiev, which was presented to the museum by Gorky and has become the symbol of Russian national female beauty, a genre painting by K.P. Bryullov on the Russian national subject – “Svetlana Telling Fortunes”, “The Flying Carpet” by V.M. Vasnetsov and a masterpiece by I.E. Repin – “A Shy Peasant”. The Museum hosts outstanding works of the XVIII century portrait painters F.S. Rokotov and D.G. Levitsky, paintings of the

In several halls of the same house overlooking the Volga there are collections of West-European painting containing about 200 works by the representatives of the major European art schools of the XV – the beginning of XX centuries: Italian, French, German, Dutch and Flemish.

The Nizhny Novgorod State LiteratureMemorial Museum of N.A. Dobrolyubov (Lykova Damba Street, 2 and 2”a”)

The only museum in Russia devoted to N.A. Dobrolyubov, a great man of letters, publicist and public figure, is situated in the former mansion of the Dobrolyubovs on the embankment of Lykova Damba. The museum is housed in two buildings: in the wing where Dobrolyubov lived as a child and in the commercial apartment house of the Dobrolyubovs. The museum hosts many things of the Dobrolyubov family such as their library, the harmonium, the glasses and notebooks of

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his youth, the daguerreotype, the dishes, the furniture etc. Mini-performances are put on in the memorial museum-house including the one “I will Serve my Motherland” which reveals the personality and genius of N.A. Dobrolyubov. The museum also arranges a lot of interactive programmes ranging from tea parties in the memorial drawing room to the birthday celebration in the mansion park.

4,5. Exposition of N.A.Dobrolubov Museum

Nowadays the Gorky State Museum is a complex consisting of three literature-memorial museums: the Gorky’s Memorial flat (Semashko st., 19), the Literature Museum (Minin st., 26) and the Gorky childhood museum – “Kashirin’s house” (Pochtovy Syezd, 21). The Museum “Kashirin’s House” is the only museum in Russia which illustrates an autobiographical book. The life of the great Russian writer A.M. Gorky is closely connected with Nizhny Novgorod. The writer was born here and as a child lived in his grandfather’s house.

The exhibition of The Gorky Memorial flat is housed in Gorky’s last apartment in Nizhny Novgorod. Over 2 thousand authentic things which belonged to Gorky are displayed there and the true furnishing of the study is preserved.

The Gorky State Museum

The Literature Museum of A.M. Gorky offers unique information about the “literature nest” – the writers and cultural figures who worked in Nizhny Novgorod at the turn of the XX century. The mansion which belonged to the merchant woman V.M. Burmistrova is worth seeing too.

(26, Minin Street)

The Russian State Museum of Photography (9, Piskounov Street)

The Russian museum of photography in Piskounova street is located in the former studio of A.O. Karelin and M.P. Dmitriev, local masters of photography. This is the only museum of photographic profile in Russia today. The historical display introduces “the golden age of photography”. 8

6. Building of Museum of Literature 7. A.M. Gorky Monument on Gorky square 8. Historical exposition of Photograph Museum 9. Memorial room of Museum “Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory”

The museum funds host Dmitriev’s biggest photocamera, the biggest one in the city, with the picture size of 45x55 cm, daguerreotypes, photo albums, a collection of photocameras. There you can learn in detail about the history of photographic technique and equipment development both in Russia and Europe. Displays of works by Russian and foreign photographers are arranged on a regular basis in the exhibition hall of the museum.

The scientific museum “Radiolaboratory of Nizhny Novgorod” (5, Verkhnevolzhskaya Embankment)

The scientific museum “Radiolaboratory of Nizhny Novgorod” is located in the building where the legendary Radiolaboratory of Nizhny Novgorod was since 1918 till 1928. There have been made the first tests of radiotelephonic transmission of a human voice. The first most powerful transmitting tubes with water cooling and vacuum-tube radio transmitters of an outstanding power used to be constructed here. All the variety of work in Nizhny Novgorod Radiolaboratory is displayed in the museum exposition. The most curious visitors are offered to make exciting physical experiments in which everyone can take place. Among the exclusive museums of the world is the memorial museum of academician, nuclear physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize A.D. Sakharov, who was sent to city of Gorky “into exile”. Among the most popular museums of Nizhny Novgorod is the unique tram museum (museum of history of Municipal Enterprise “Nizhegorodelektrotrans”), where you can see the first electrical tram in Russia “Erlikon”; museum of steam trains, where are 14 renovated steam trains, each with its own destiny and history; museum of history of “GAZ” JSC, museum of factory “Krasnoe Sormovo”, museum of factory “Sokol”, museum of river fleet and others.

There are two orthodox museums in Nizhny Novgorod: the Museum of Nizhny Novgorod Diocese history in the Pechersky Ascension Monastery and the Museum of Seminary in the Annunciation monastery. In 2013 a new museum at the premises of the factory “Ariel” will be opened – “The House of Christmas-Tree Decorations” where one will not only be able to watch historical expositions but also take part in animation programmes and workshops on ornamenting Christmas-Tree decorations.

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MONASTERIES Nizhny Novgorod is a unique city, it is the only Russian city founded by a grand prince who was consecrated a saint. Since the time of its foundation the city has been one of the great Volga centres of the Orthodoxy. Nowadays Nizhny Novgorod is home to 3 monasteries, the Metochion of the Holy Trinity-St. Seraphim Diveevo Convent.

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The Nizhny Novgorod Annunciation Monastery (the Blagoveshchensky Monastery)

1. The Monastery of the Annunciation (the Blagoveshchensky Monastery) 2. The interior and a fragment of painting

One of the most ancient monasteries, it is situated on the high right bank of the Oka against the famous Nizhny Novgorod Trade Fair. The Monastery was set up in 1221 along with the foundation of the city by the saint blessed grand prince Georgy Vsevolodovich and the bishop of Vladimir Simon.

manuscripts and books of XVI–XIX centuries. Nowadays the Seminary located in one of the monastery buildings carries on traditions of spiritual enlightenment and not infrequently you can enjoy regular harmonious singing of the male choir at a church service.

Due to the patronage of princes and Moscow metropolitans the monastery has accumulated a huge library which includes

The architectural character of the today monastery formed basically in the XVII–XVIII centuries.

The Pechersky Ascension Monastery The monastery is an ancient centre of religious life. It was set up in 1328 near the Kremlin of Nizhny Novgorod on the pattern of the Kiev Pecherk Lavra where the founder of the monastery the monk Laurentius came from. The monks lived in caves (in old Russian “pechera” means “a cave”), that is where the name of the monastery originated from. Here the monk Laurentius compiled a chronicle which included Vladimir Monomach’s Instruction. We owe to the Pechersky monastery such great Russian saints as St. Evphimy of Suzdal and St. Makary Zheltovodsky who joined the Pechersky monastery and became the followers of Dionisy.

In 1957 at the ancient location of the Pechersky Monastery the incorruptible relics of the schemonk Ioasaf were found. They are now kept in the Transfiguration church in Starye Pechery. The modern architectural ensemble of the monastery had formed by the XVII century. The domes of the Ascension Cathedral, the steepled over-the-gates church in honour of Evphimy of Suzdal and the Assumption church with a spacious monastery canteen are rising above the Volga.

3. Interiors of Pechersky Monastery 4. Spring in Pechersky Monastery 5. Convent of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross 3

The Convent of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

The Metochion of the Holy TrinitySt. Seraphim Diveevo Convent

The convent emerged from the amalgamation of three (Zachatievsky, Voskresensky and Proischozhdensky) ancient convents.

There is the renowned Metochion of the Holy Trinity-St. Seraphim Diveevo Convent located in Slavyanskaya street in Nizhny Novgorod.

The new convent was laid down in 1813 near the gate of Arzamas (now Lyadov squre). The main cathedral of the convent, built in the classicism style by I.I. Mezhetsky, was consecrated in 1823 in honour of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Now the convent is being restored to its original form.

The three-altar church in honour of Moscow saints St. Peter, St. Aleksiy, St. Jonah and St. Germogen was restored in 1998 and the Metochion of the Holy Trinity-St. Seraphim Diveevo Convent was given jurisdiction over it. There you can find copies of the miracle-working icon “Glykophilousa” and a copy of the icon of St. Seraphim of Sarov the Wondermaker with a part of his relics, icons of St. Aleksandra, St. Martha, St. Helen – Diveevo saints.

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The Orthodox Churches

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There are more than 40 orthodox temples in Nizhny Novgorod. Tutelary saints of Nizhny Novgorod (except the founder Georgy Vsevolodovich) are reverend St. Makary Zheltovodsky, St. Evphimy, Suzdal archimandrite, reverend Ioasaf Pechersky wonder-worker, saint bishop Dionisy.

The Cathedral of Mikhail Archangel – “A Heart of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin” The cathedral dedicated to Mikhail Archangel was founded in 1221 together with the city. Originally it was a wooden church but in 1227 it was already built in stone. The present Russian architecture steeple-church look was rendered to the cathedral in 1631 by the work of an architect, Lavrenty Vozoulin aided by his stepped son Antipas. From architectural point of view the ensemble is peculiar for being a church joint with a bell-tower. Besides, there is interred a patriot of Russian land, Kuzma Minin, in the cathedral.

The Church of Holly Mirrhbearers (Znamenskaya Church) – “A Baptistery of Old Rus", (13 A, Dobrolyubova Street) This is one of the most ancient and beautiful churches of Nizhny Novgorod dated back to the 13th century. Originally there was a wooden church instead of the white-stone one. Saint Euthymius of Suzdal and Saint Macarius of the Yellow Water Lake and the Unzha, the Miracle Worker, were born and baptized at the parish of this church. In 1649 the stone church was built instead of the wooden one. It became the first church in the city build in the ship-like style.

The Church in the Name of Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos – “A Masterpiece of Russian Baroque”, (34, Rozhdestvenskaya Street) The history of one of the most beautiful churches in Russia is as rich as its exterior. This exquisite finely carved building amazes by its beauty and splendor. The church was built by the famous merchants, the Stroganovs, as a symbol of their dynasty inviolability. The church was consecrated only in 1719. There is preserved a unique baroque iconostasis carved gilded in the church. Only 43 icons dated to the 17th century out of 46 have been extant.

The Cathedral in the Name of Saint Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky – “An Ark Crowning the Conflux”, (3 A, Strelka)

This is the third highest church (87 m) in Russia after the Cathedral of the Christ the Saviour in Moscow and Saint Isaac’s Cathedral in Saint-Petersburg and the only church in Russia that was put on a float board. The construction of the cathedral was made at the expense of All-Russia Fair Merchantry funds by L.V. Dal’ project and was consecrated in the name of Saint Blessed Prince in 1881 Alexander Nevsky. Crowning the famous Conflux (in Rus.: Strelka), it greets all the guests arriving to Nizhny Novgorod by the river. The official city guide of Nizhny Novgorod is www.visitnn.com

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The Old Fair Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (10, Yarmarochny Proezd)

The white-snow decoration of the Fair complex, the Old Fair Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was consecrated in 1822. The art experts have called this cathedral “a small Isakiy” or “Saint Isaac’s Cathedral in Miniature”. The project was made by Auguste de Montferrand, the creator of Saint Isaac’s Cathedral in Saint-Petersburg. There is a theory that lots of know-how of the Old Fair Cathedral of Christ the Saviour were applied by Montferrand in Saint-Petersburg. The author of wall paintings was an Academician of Painting, A.V. Stupin (a founder of the

first province school of painting). The church crowned the major promenade street of the Fair and played a constituting part for the general architectural motif. The lower riverbank of the Oka used to suffer from flood and in course of time high water washed the filled ground. At the end of the 19th century R.Y. Kilewein renovated the Old Fair Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, first in Russia applying a unique technical solution for changing the old basement to a new one.

The Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos

The Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour,

(7, Pereulok Krutoy)

(124, Sloboda Pechery)

The Church of AllMerciful Saviour (177 A, M. Gorkogo Street)

This is a unique example of church architecture dated to the 17th century. It is supposed that the church was built by merchant A. F. Olisov. This church is the unique example of a church in Russia that has the main space (the prayer hall) covered by “four-sided kreschataya bochka” (four-sides raised feather-edged roof). From architectural point of view the stone church is peculiar for having been built in the manner typical for Old Russian church architecture, thus the church demonstrates the connection of two architectural time periods: the wooden and the stone ones.

The white-stone Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour is situated on the right riverbank of the Volga and marks the place where the ancient Pechersky Monastery of the Ascension used to be. The main relic of this temple is the relics of Saint Schemonk Iosaph which were found out due to the landslide of the Pechersky Monastery at the end of the 16th century. The monastery complex was moved to another place and there was made a log wooden church at the place of the relics invention. Then a new stone church of typical for that time architectural concept was built instead by the project of the first architect of Nizhny Novgorod Gubernia, Y. A. Ananjin.

The church was built to honour the memory of the tsar-piecemaker, Alexander the Third and to celebrate the miraculous escape of the tsar family during the train wreck on the 17th of October 1888 near village Borok.

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The church was built in the style of fairytale Old Russian terem (palace) of the 17th century. In 1903 the church was consecrated. The painting in the church partially copies the paintings of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and the Cathedral of Saint Vladimir in Kiev and were made on the basis of pictures of the painters Semiradsky, Nesterov, Vasnetsov and others.

Religious confessions of Nizhny Novgorod

Armenian Apostolic Church “Surb Amenaprkitch” (the Armenian Apostolic Church of Christ the Saviour) (Shevchenko Street)

Roman catholic parish of the Assumption (10 B, Studeny Lane)

The first Catholics appeared in Nizhny Novgorod in XVII century. Active formation of the catholic community began in XIX century. By 1914 the parish consisted of three churches, one of which was on Studeny Lane. Upon the project of architect M.I.Kuntsevich a big building in pseudogothic style was to be built here, but the beginning of World War I ruined these plans. In the end only a simple and low church was constructed. Today Church of the Assumption is situated nearby in the neighboring building, which in XIX century belonged to the estate of merchant Shchelokov.

The history of Armenian community is closely connected with the history of MakarievNizhny Novgorod Fair. Since 1828 there was an Armenian Apostolic church at the fair area built by the project of architect A. Leer at the expense of tsar treasury. That church was destroyed in the 30-ies of the 20th century. Social organization “Nizhny Novgorod Armenian Community” (established in 1993)

Cathedral Mosque of Nizhny Novgorod

obtained a land plot at the high hill of the riverbank of the Oka at Shchevchenko Street for the church construction that began in 2008 and it is supposed to have been finished by 2014.

The Synagogue

(5 A, Grusinskaya Street)

(6, Kazanskaya Embankment)

At the end of the 19th century the area of Sennaya Square became the place of Tatar community. Thus the second mosque after the Fair one was built here in 1913–1915 by the project of architect P.A. Dombrovsky. In 1994 a building of madrasah “Makhinur” was built near the Cathedral Mosque of Nizhny Novgorod. The Muslim community is about 20 thousand people, the most of them are the Tatar.

In the last quarter of the 19th century there was developed a prominent Jewish community in Nizhny Novgorod consisted of merchants that worked at the Fair and lower middle class settled after army service. In 1879 the community purchased the land plot between Myshkin and Bolotov sidestreets (now: Universitetsky side-street and Gruzinskaya Street) for the Synagogue construction. The building was constructed in 1883 by the project of architect I.F. Neiman. The population of the Jewish community is about 15 thousand people.

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Theatre Life Nizhny Novgorod is a motherland of many theatre workers. A Russian actress P. Strepetova made debut at theatre stage of Nizhny Novgorod, a famous actor V.Y. Dvorzhetsky worked here, among graduates of Nizhny Novgorod Theatre School are such Russian actors as Evgeny Evstigneev, Alexander Pankratov-Cherny, Andrey Iliyn and others.

The Drama Theatre named after A. M. Gorky (13, Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street) The theatre was built in 1896 by the opening of International Art and Industry Exhibition and the theatrical season ushered with the opera “A Life for the Tsar” by M.I. Glinka starring young Fedor Shalyapin. This theatre is the only one in the world where since 1901 all plays by A.M. Gorky have been staged. Nowadays the repertoire of the theatre includes all the best classical plays

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by Russian and foreign play-writers such as Chekhov, Gogol, Ostrovsky, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Cooney and others. Two times a year the theatre turns into the venue of Russian Theatre Festival named after A.M. Gorky.

The Theatre “Komedia” (The Comedy Theatre), (23, Gruzinskaya Street)

The Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Nizhny Novgorod named after A.S. Pushkin, (59, Belinskogo Street)

The “Komedia” is one of the most frequented theatres of the city. The plays by famous stage directors and artists are run and repertory companies from the capital give performance on tour here. The new stage has been explored by the Oleg Tabakov Theatre, the Moscow Theatre “Petr Fomenko’s Studio”. “The Satyricon”, the Moscow Theatre at the SouthEast, the National Academic Russian Drama Theatre named of Belorussia named after Maxim Gorky, the Swiss Theatre VidyLausanne ETE and the English Theatre A and BC.

The theatre was opened in 1935 by efforts of A.M. Gorky and F.I. Shalyapin in the premises of the prior Narodny Dom (People’s House) built in 1903. The repertoire contains a range of classical musical plays from “Aida” to “Juno and Avos”, tour performances of Moscow and foreign actors. Since 1988 there has been taken place All-Russia Pushkin Festival of Opera and Ballet Art “Boldinskaya Osen” (“Boldino Autumn”) at the theatre stage.

The Academic Puppet Theatre of Nizhny Novgorod

The Youth Theatre of Nizhny Novgorod (145, M. Gorkogo Street)

The Puppet Theatre was opened in Nizhny Novgorod in 1929 and its first name was “The Theatre of Petrushka” (Theatre of Punch). The present theatre repertoire offers more than 30 plays for children and adults. Little and young visitors of the city have an opportunity to discover the theatre for the first time and adults can recall the childhood memories and refresh memory about classical plays by Obraztsov Puppet Theatre.

The Youth Theatre of Nizhny Novgorod was established in 1928 by stage-director N. I. Sobolshchikov-Samarin. The theatre repertoire offers Russian and foreign classical works, fairy-tales and modern burning plays: “The Nutcracker”, “The Heart of a Dog”, “King Lear”, “The Storm”, “The Town Musicians of Bremen”, “The Golden Key”, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, “My Joy” and many others.

The State Theatre of Nizhny Novgorod for Children “Vera”

The Musical Theatre of Vladimir Stepanov

It is a popular theatre located at the city lower side of the river and it was founded in 1976 first as a theatre studio and later as a chamber theatre for children and youngsters. The repertoire is diverse: from Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Pushkin to Alexander Grin, Evgeny Shvarts and modern play-writers. The main genre of the theatre plays is a fairy-tale filled with the sincere belief in miracle, triumph of love, triumph of good over evil. Every year there is taken place the Russian Festival of Plays for Children “Go Ahead After the Bluebird!” (in Rus.: “Вперед за синей птицей!”) in the theatre.

The Musical Theatre of Vladimir Stepanov deserves a special attention. The repertoire of the theatre offers: the concert programmes “True Love”, “Love Stories in Lyrical Songs”, the ballet “Troy”, the light opera “Duke Luxembourg”, the musical story “Sky Slow Runner”, the musical “Donna Lucia”, “Wild Dog Dingo” and many others.

(39, Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street)

(10, Meshchersky Boulevard)

(32, Yubileyny Avenue)

Nowadays there function five state theatres including three academic ones and also two municipal and several private theatres in the city such as: the Practice Theatre of Theatre School named by E. Evstigneev, the Theatre of Musical and Eurhythmics Drama “Transformation”, the Theatre of Actor and Puppet, the Theatre of Simultaneous Performance “Zoopark”, the Theatre of Bards “Edge” (“Gran”), the Theatre at the Actor’s House. The official city guide of Nizhny Novgorod is www.visitnn.com

Exhibitions and galleries Nizhny Novgorod has always belonged to major art and cultural centres of Russia. Possessing one of the best museum collection of paintings, the city does not miss the chance to take advantage of its exhibition areas to display pieces of arts of an international skills level. Guests of Nizhny Novgorod can always discover the works of art classics and talented painters at the city exhibition areas.

The State Exhibition Complex of Nizhny Novgorod (2/2, Minin and Pozharsky Square)

1. The work of A.N. Yurkov in “floristics mosaic”" 2. The State Exhibition Complex The exposition

There is situated the most famous exhibition at the central city square. International, country and regional exhibitions take place in the light spacious (more than 2000 sq.m.) and professionally equipped buildings of the exhibition complex that were previously ones of Verkhne-Posadsky Bazaar. The exhibitions of famous painters from Moscow, SaintPetersburg, regions of Russia and CIS and also from France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Poland, China and other foreign countries take place in the exhibition complex. In 2013 the following major exhibition events will be offered to the visitors: “Best Works of Hungarian Painters from the Collection of House Cogart”, “Special German Project – “German Animation” and the exhibition of Modersohn Bekker Paula’s works”, the exhibition of Poland painter Nikolay Greenberg “Portrait of Woman”, the exhibition of best works

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by members of Artists Union of Russia, the photo exhibition of Ekaterina Rozhdestvenskaya, the jubilee exhibition of Nizhny Novgorod painters, members of Nizhny Novgorod branch of Artists’ Union of Russia; the jubilee exhibition dedicated to 80th anniversary of M. Kamanin, the project “Children draw fairy-tales”. Besides there will be opened permanent exhibition of the best works “Nizhny Novgorod Arts and Crafts” in the exhibition gallery. The exhibition gallery ensures the accessibility to visitors with disabilities. There is “Gallery 2/2” in the same building but at the left part of the ground floor where works of Nizhny Novgorod painters are displayed.

3. Exhibition "CROSSPOINT" 4. Exhibition "Painters of the Nizhny Novgorod land" 5. At the exhibition of Ekaterina Rozhdestvenskaya

Nizhny Novgorod Branch of State Centre of Modern Art (Arsenal) (Kremlin, building 6)

In the 19th century Arsenal was used as military equipment storage, now it is a famous exhibition centre for modern art trends. Personal and group exhibition projects of Russian and foreign artists that create within up-to-date art strategy are implemented here. Arsenal is an experimental space for art projects connected with video, audio and multimedia technologies. In 2013 there will be held several major art projects here: “Christmas Workshops”, “Walter Benyamin’s Christmas-Tree Party” (Germany), “Waldemar Mattis-Teutsch” (hologrammes, Hungary), the Festival “A Woman in Motion” (exhibitions, concerts, plays), the Exposition of Dagmara Schenk-Guellich (graphics, Germany), “The Empire of Cinema” (Holland) and others. Unusual guide tours are organized here on specific topics in various aspects: “panorama” (general sightseeing tour), “spotlight” (tour on specific topic), “watch-discuss-create”, “carteblanche” and others.

The Gallery “Yurkovka” (9, Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street)

A. N. Yurkov

The Gallery “Yurkovka” was founded by a talented artist A. N. Yurkov in 1998. The main feature of his works that are unique pictures is a special art technique called “floristics mosaic” by the author: it consists in using only leaves of different trees and plants and glue. The Art Gallery “Kladovka” (8, Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street)

“The Gallery of Masterpieces and Craftsmen “Thing-in-Itself” (15 B, Minin Street)

“Tower at daybreak” Painter: A.Garin

The Art Gallery “Art Arcade” (11, Alexeevskaya Street)

“Joy of the Christmas day” Painter: F.Korney

“The Gallery of Masterpieces and Craftsmen “Thing-in-Itself” invites to discover the works of modern art and craft including sculpture (plaster, wood, stone, metal, clay), ornamental blacksmithing and casting, jewelry making.

The “Art Arcade” is a permanent exposition in Nizhny Novgorod. Everyday about 200 paintings of various genres by 50 professional artists from Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo, Cheboksary, Saransk, Penza, Kirov, Vladimir, Murom and other Russian cities are exhibited here.

The gallery of art “Russian century” (1, Minin Street)

“Minin and Pozharsky Square” Painter: A.A. Chernigin

The Art Gallery “Kladovka” is located in a cozy yard of an old building at Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street. The yard leads to a small gallery where the things that seems to be useless but still showing life of the country at the period of the USSR are displayed here. The main showpieces and design items are old-fashioned household equipment, such as an enamel tea-pot of a cast-iron, gramophones and vinyl records and also things of aesthetic purpose. Here is a hand-made things shop, public art and every month poetry, music soirees, public reading and workshops are taken place here in the atmosphere of art.

he gallery “Russian century” is a gallery of modern painting, graphics and sculpture. The Gallery was found in 1992. It cooperates with professional painters of Nizhny Novgorod that continue the best traditions of national Russian school. Realistic art is a priority orientation in the expositions of the gallery. Among famous Russian masters whose works are demonstrated in the gallery are people’s artist V.Zhmerikin and V. Safronov, honoured artists A.Saikina, G.Grishin, V.Grachev, S.Kalachev, V.Artamonov, A.Chernigin, V.Averin, V.Krylatov, N.Gubanov, I.Safronova, V.Semikletov and many others.

For all those who are interested in art, history and culture there is a choice of some more galleries and exposition halls: • • • • •

Salon “ART52.RU” on Alekseevskaya st., Exposition hall “POKROVKA, 8”, Gallery of modern art on Beketov st. Bar-gallery “ARTBUZ” on Ilyinskaya street, Exposition Centre “Nizhny Novgorod Exotarrium” on Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street and others.

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CIRCUS AND PLANETARIUM On the riverbank of the Oka not far from the Moscow railway station there are two entertainment centers magnetic for both tourists and residents of Nizhny Novgorod – Nizhny Novgorod Circus and Nizhny Novgorod Planetarium.

Nizhny Novgorod Circus (38, Kommunisticheskaya Street)

Planetarium (20, Revolutsionnaya Street)

Circus appeared in Nizhny Novgorod earlier than in Moscow. Nikitin brothers opened in Nizhny Novgorod stationary yet wooden circus in 1883. Traditions of the circus arts are continued by modern circus, in the new ultramodern building, put into operation in September 2007. It is one of the biggest circus complexes in Europe. Shows of international level are held here. Performances of sea animals, predators, elephants, dogs, monkeys, horses may be seen onstage. Famous circuses of the world come here on tour.

Nizhny Novgorod Planetarium is the first digital planetarium in Russia. It is equipped by the unique Russian system of visualization “Argus” Digital Planetarium”. It is based on a multi projector system that forms a bright panorama of 360 degrees of super-resolution on the cupola. In 2007 a space simulator of coupling of “Souz TMA” with International Space Station was installed in Nizhny Novgorod planetarium.

There are “Lessons of circus mastery” available for the most dedicated fans. It is not only a unique opportunity to have a look backstage but also a way to to learn to execute complicate tricks, to become an acrobat or a juggler. Here kids’ dreams come true! Circus cannot be felt at a distance (or at a TV screen), “magic of place” is very important for it, all of its miracles should be seen by one’s own eyes. The circus is warmly welcoming to the residents and quests of Nizhny Novgorod.

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Educational lectures for kids about astronomy and cosmic exploration programs are held here. Adults would enjoy watching the stars to familiar melodies like «The Dark Side of The Moon» Pink Floyd. In fine weather people watch the starry sky through the telescope. Planetarium offers educational and entertaining programs for different holidays. Jolly contests are held and the main prize is coupling on a space simulator.

1,2. Arena of Nizhny Novgorod circus 3. The hall of the digital planetarium 4. Coupling module

CONCERT HALLS Musical Nizhny Novgorod gave Russia a lot of remarkable traditions and names. A.D.Ulybyshev from Nizhny Novgorod became a first Russian musicologist of European level. M.A. Balakirev, head of “The Mighty Five”, was born, learned and established himself as a musician in Nizhny Novgorod. Nizhny Novgorod is home for International Art Festival named after A.D.Sakharov that is acknowledged by European Festival Association at UNESCO (1999). Yearly onstage Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic Hall a unique Russian kids’ contest “New names” is held and in Nizhny Novgorod conservatory All-Russian open choral festival named after L.K. Sivukhin takes place.

1. Performance of the chorus 2. Conservatory hall 3. Performance of M. Rostropovich on the philharmonic stage 4. Sakharov Festival

Nizhny Novgorod choir college named after L.K. Sivukhin

Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory named after M.I.Glinka

(4, Minin and Pozharsky square)

(40, Piskunova st.)

College (earlier Nizhny Novgorod choir chapel of boys) is organized by the example of Monarchic and Patriarchal choralists, classes of Chapel folk and Synodic school of liturgical chant.

During the time of its operation , since 1946, the Conservatory gained a status of the largest centre of musical culture.

Ensembles’ performances may be listened to at all big city holidays and festivals. Repertoire of the choirs includes large forms and miniatures, folklore and modern music, Nizhny Novgorod composers’ works, composed specially for the Chapel.

Big concert hall of NNSC appears to be unique in the city by its acoustical quality. There are two organs in the conservatory. One of them was made by German firm “Alezander Shuke” specially for the acoustic characteristics of the hall.

Nizhny Novgorod State academic Philharmonic named after Mstislav Rostropovich (The Kremlin, corpus 2) Since 1937 the Philharmonic stays the main organizer of symphonic, choral, chamber, organ and literature concerts in Nizhny Novgorod. Yearly it holds more than a thousand and a half concerts in the central halls of the city, mostly in the Kremlin Concert Hall.

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ADEVENTURE TOURISM Ancient city amazes its guests by the wide range of non-standard offers in the sphere of tourism. Adventure lover may choose any type of unusual rest from traditional sail sing to fascinating supersonic aircraft flights.

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Flight to the stratosphere on a battle fighter MiG-29, 31

Meet “Erlikon”

You may experience an unforgettable sensation travelling at 2,5 thousand km/h to the spaces of stratosphere onboard of super altitude MiG. Minimal g-forces (up to 3G), 10 year experience of official touristic flights, minimum requirements for the participant – these are the components of a special touristic orientation meant for the Russians and foreign guests.

In Nizhny Novgorod you may enjoy a tour in an unusual café– tramway (the city is especially beautiful in the evening). Sitting at a cup, watching silhouettes of historical buildings and monuments twinkling outside the window you get directly in the tram at the Museum of Tramways where the first Russian electrical tramway –“Erlikon” – stays, and then over the bridge where a fabulous view of the conflux opens you get from the Upper part of the city to the Lower one directly at the railway station.

Flight on an aircraft that is able to struggle with all class of aerodynamic targets became an excellent present for those who loves “highest class extreme”.

Running over the wave

25 or 45 minutes’ flight with a professional pilot, with necessary aerobatic figures and you get a video of your flight, a photo, certificate of this memorable occasion and a bulk of impressions!

Nizhny Novgorod residents and guests of the city discovered a new type of tourism. It takes Nizhny Novgorod ropeway 15 minutes to cross the widest European river Volga and take its travellers to the sights of the city Bor. Travellers would fully enjoy the seizing views of the ancient city from the river side, views of Ascension Pechersky monastery and the Conflux. This is a singular ropeway in Europe with such a big passing over the river and it is able to convey up to 1000 passengers daily.

Sail Sings

Flights above the river

A wheel Diesel electro engine “Sura” This is a modern and comfortable version of a classic river voyage. Wheeled steamships worked of Nizhny Novgorod river in the before last century. Wheels perfectly fit where screwdriven ships can’t pass because of shallow waters. On “Sura” you may sail to Gorodets, Makary monastery, or just rent the ship and relax in joyful company (up to 120 people) enjoying the Volga’s and Oka’s vasts.

This original type of adventures exists only in Nizhny Novgorod. Using new means of transportation above water and ice one may get to the monuments of historical and cultural heritage around Nizhny Novgorod. Aircushion ships are safe, comfortable and fast way of transportation all the year round. Such ship does not need roads , you may just choose the direction. Thus you may fly from Nizhny Novgorod to Bor or Bor islands, where may be an amphibian flying boat. Aircushion ship would take a group of 48 people to Makaryevsky monastery for 1,5 hour in an hour – to “Craftsmen’s town in Gorodets” or to Dudin monastery in Bogorodsk.

In flight on a hydrofoil ship Nizhny Novgorod is world famous as a homeland on hydrofoil ships. Touristic motor ship “Voskhod 24” may take on board up to 70 people. Sail Sings are possible almost every day in summer, several special touristic ships “Otdykh-1”, “Moskva”, “Solveig” and others cruise up and down the Oka and the Volga. Such voyage usually lasts for 2-3 hours.

Nizhny Novgorod ring

Those who like extreme sports we would recommend to visit a professional race track “Nizhny Novgorod ring” where all-Russian and international competitions are held. The complex is situated near Nizhny Novgorod at the Bogorodsky district. There is also a Bogorodsk aeroclub not far from Nizhny Novgorod. There you may fly on a small planes or bail out.

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PARKS AND ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS Parks and park areas with different kinds of landscapes are present in many districts of Nizhny Novgorod. Some of them end on high bank sides as “Switzerland” or Aleksandrovsky garden others like for instance Sormovsky clasp lakes in their green hands. There is also a unique historical park in the city. Almost all of the parks have entertainment complexes with attractions and numerous cafes.

ALEKSANDROVSKY GARDEN

Park “Switzerland”

The first in Nizhny Novgorod history public park – Aleksandrovsky garden – is situated on the right high river bank of the Volga near the Kremlin. The square of the garden is 35 hectare. The park was laid out in the 30-s of the 19th century by the command of Nicolay I and named after his wife Aleksandra Fedorovna. The author of the project was German court gardener K.Petstold – a master of romantic landscape compositions (English style). In Nizhny Petstold managed to create fashionable park-line landscape using rugged relief and water with a lot of scenery spots from which remarkable views of the Volga opened. Aleksandrovsky garden is a real theatre of nature where serpentine paths with single huge trees on the swards (soliters), homotypical and mixed groups of trees and bushes are kind of peculiar side-scenes, background for dominant landscape compositions that play the first roles and any step higher or lower to the path opens a new view-scene on over Volga’s vasts. At the same time the park is a botanical garden where different species of wood and bush. Aleksandrovsky garden and Upper-Volgian banking as in the 19th century still stay the most popular recreation areas of the city.

The park “Switzerland” obtained its name for picturesque views combining green scarps and cozy alleys. The first plantings appeared here more than 100 years ago. It is the most extended park attracts Nizhny Novgorod residents and guests by its magnificent scenery spots. Absolutely all visitors of the park feel fascination of altitude and wideness of the opening panoramas of over river’s part of the city.

Sormovsky park Not far from “Limpopo” there is Sormovsky Park – favorite recreation area of the Sormovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod. Here at the lake surrounded by relict pines. Linden and birch woods are pleasant for romantic walks and for the kids there is a variety of attractions.

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There are several attraction zones in the park, modern observation wheel and Zoological garden “Mishutka”. The zoo occupies a small territory but here safely and comfortably neighbor tigers, lions, bears, lynx, deer, different birds and reptiles.

Zoological garden “Limpopo” Zoological garden “Limpopo” is one of the first in the country private zoological parks. The symbol of “Limpopo” is an owl that the owner of the zoo Vladimir Gerasichkin once saved from the dogs. There is a special place at “Limpopo” that is called contact zoo “Russian village”. It is decorated in the style of farmstead. Here you may pet and feed the animals you like, that are safe for the people – Cameroonian goats, peacocks, minipigs, hens, geese, bunnies, roman sheep, donkeys and even pony. There are more than 700 faunal forms at the zoo. In 2007 “Limpopo” became a member of Eurasian regional association of zoological gardens and aquariums (ERAZA).

1.Aleksandrovsky garden 2. “Switzerland” Park 3. Attractions in “Switzerland” 4. “Limpopo” zoological garden

HEALTH RESORT “GREEN CITY” In the suburbs on Nizhny Novgorod there is a balneo-climatic health resort – “Green city”. This place is comparable with not only the best Russian resorts but also resorts of Switzerland that is approved by a conclusion of the Russian scientific center of restorative medicine and balneology. Green City is several hectares of forest reserve with a status of natural monument of regional significance, situated between three rivers the Volga, the Oka and the Kudma. There are more than 20 objects of recreation sphere including famous resorts “named after VTSSPS”, “Green City”, “Strelka”, “Rassvet”, cottage complex “Green City”, camp “Magistral”, educational centre “”Green City”, numerous camps for children.

The main value of Green City is a great pine forest

Mineral water of Green City

The main value of Green City is a great pine forest creating a special atmosphere where the air is enriched by negative ions. Their content is 3 times more (up to 2600 ions/cub.cm) than in a normal place. It is comparable to nature and air ionization in famous Russian resorts (Kislovodsk 1600 ion/cub.cm) and in Switzerland (Shleideck, 2500 ion/cub. cm). Negative ions positively influence human organism increasing its protective functions and stability against diseases of cardiovascular system, respiratory system and nervous breakdowns.

Mineral water of two kinds is obtained in the Green City. One from the deepness of 400m (Gorkovskaya 1) similar in properties to mineral waters of “Staraya Russa” of Novgorod region, “Usolye Sibirskoye” of Irkutsk region and “Druskininkay” that are used in mineral bath treatment. Another type of the mineral water is “Gorkovskaya 2” that is obtained from 100m deepness and is used to internal consumption. Has similar properties to water “Slavyanskaya” of Zheleznovodsk resort and “Krainka” of the Tula region.

Resorts of Green City Resorts of Green City are equipped by the modern diagnostic and treatment base and retooled. Resort named after VTSSPS specializes on the treatment programs of the following profiles: diseases of the digestive system, abdominal cavity, endocrine system, metabolic diseases, apparatus, nervous, cardiovascular and genitourinary systems. Green City resort specializes on treatment of cardiac and vessel diseases, diseases of the nervous system, professional diseases of respiration organs. There are rehabilitation departments here for the sick that suffered acute myocardial infarction and acute cerebrovascular accident, people after heart surgery.

Green City is an island of health and great mood!

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Sight-seeing tour “Stately City Above All the West of Russia” Ancient city on the Volga and Oka conflux Legends and fables of Nizhny Novgorod Merchant Nizhny Novgorod Wooden tales of early Rus’ Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street – “Nizhny Novgorod Arbat” Literary Nizhny Novgorod Pushkin and Nizhny Novgorod land Decembrists in Nizhny Novgorod Verkhnevolzhskaya embankment – first Nizhny Novgorod promenade Maxim Gorky in Nizhny Novgorod City founded by saints Pathway to the church. Orthodox monasteries and churches Open air museum – “ Rozhdestvenskaya Side” Costumed excursion “ Rozhdestvenskaya Side” Costumed excursion “Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin”

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Peoples’ unity national homeland Merchant Ilyinskaya street Industrial Zarechye (literally: “area across-the-river”) Meet the past and the present of Auto Plant River sightseeing tours on the Volga side Nizhny Novgorod in the evening in an excursion cafe-tram “Tender Nizhny” – for romantic ones Mystic Nizhny Novgorod NNSU botanical garden: “Secret life of plants” History of railroads with a visit to railway engine museum Enchanting world of Christmas ornaments (visit to Ariel works) Bird’s eye panorama of Nizhny Novgorod (on an air-ballon) Ancient city on the Volga and Oka conflux (on an aircraft) Trip to the stratosphere on board Mig-29 (Nizhny Novgorod at the height of more than 10 thousand meters)

Sight-seeing tour “Stately City Above All the West of Russia” The rout lies within the historical center “Old Nizhny”, where there are merchant boards and churches of the 17–18 centuries, Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin with its views to the famous Conflux, Nizhny Novgorod Fair, etc. In the course of the sight-seeing tour you will have a chance to feast eyes on the merchant mansions, bank buildings, and доходных домов in Ilyinskaya, Rozhdestvenskaya streets, Lower-Volga and Verkhnevolzhskaya embankments, to see the wide-known squares of the city and the monuments to K. Minin and D. Pozharsky, M. Gorky, V. Chkalov, and N. Nesterov, as well as modern bronze images in the “main street” of the city – Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street. After a brief view at the city, you will realize that Nizhny Novgorod is worth more detailed examination, and, enjoying several days here, you have a chance to see a number of thematic excursions, while combining walks and museum visiting.

Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin Excursion on the Kremlin territory will take your spirits to the early fortress city and introduce the history of creation of an ancient fortification installation, biography of an Italian architect who built the Kremlin steeped in legends and fables on constructing the towers of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. While walking in the Kremlin, you may see the monument to the city founders – Georgy Vsevolodovich and Simon the Sanctifier, the famous cathedral of Archangel Michael, obelisk to honour Minin and Pozharsky, Arakcheev’s cadet corps, airplane building (“Council House”), Governor’s house, open air avenue-exhibition of military hardware “From Gorky citizens to the front” (Rus.: «Горьковчане фронту») or “victory arsenal”. You can finish the itinerary climbing down through Ivanovskaya Tower of the Kremlin to the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist, where Kuzma Minin appealed to the citizens Nizhny Novgorod with his speech called “One With Another – Together” (Rus.: «Купно – за едино!»).

Maxim Gorky and Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod had borne the name of the great Russian writer – M. Gorky – for almost six decades. At this excursion you will learn a lot of interesting facts of the writer’s biography, including how he spent his childhood and youth, how his writer’s talent molded, what formed the basis for the ideas and plots of his famous works, who were the originals of the characters in his plays, how much he did for Nizhny Novgorod citizens and the city itself when he approved himself to be a prominent public and political man, what was his way to become prominent and acknowledged as a first-rate writer of the 20th century. The excursion intends visiting one or more museums related to the name of А.М. Gorky.

Merchant Nizhny Novgorod In the course of the excursion you will learn the history of origin and establishing of the “Pocket of Russia”. You will see the main house of Nizhny Novgorod fair, the churches built on money of Nizhny Novgorod merchants, luxurious merchant mansions – works of the best architects of the time, the open air museum – “Rozhdestvenskaya Side”. The history of outstanding merchant families and names – the Rukavishnikovs, Sirotkins, Kamenskys, Bugrovs, Blinovs and others will be of much interest, as well as secrets and traditions of dealing in Russia. The official city guide of Nizhny Novgorod is www.visitnn.com

City of elite sport Nizhny Novgorod has brought up a lot of world and European champions in rhythmic-sportive gymnastics, athletics, sambo, badminton, and other sports. Every year the city hosts more than 50 important inter-regional and international sports events in various sports.

In 2018 Nizhny Novgorod will host the World Football Championship. This event has inspired construction of a new airport terminal, hotels, and road junctions to be completed by its start. In 2014 a new international-level stadium will be laid, which seats 45 thousand. It will be located in a most beautiful place in Nizhny Novgorod – at the conflux, where the two great Russian rivers – the Volga and the Oka – meet.

Nizhny Novgorod Trade Union Sports Palace (29, Gagarin Prospect)

Nowadays, the Sports Palace houses the biggest hockey matches, including those with “Torpedo” and “Skiff” teams participating, basketball games, and dramatic ice shows… Those who so desire can be found on the skating rink of the Sports Palace during mass skating, so the skating rink is never vacant, even at night.

Hockey Club “Torpedo” (Nizhny Novgorod) Hockey Club “Torpedo” was founded in 1946. Since 2007 the team plays on the arena of the Trade Union Sports Palace renovated in compliance with the KHL requirements. 5,500 tickets for every match sell out in a couple of days.

1. Nizhny Novgorod Trade Union Palace of Sports 2. Football Club “Volga” 3. In the gymnastic area

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Football Club “Volga” Football Club “Volga” is the pride of Nizhny Novgorod and its region. The home stadium of FC Volga – “Locomotive” – is intended for 17,800 seats, where the team meets top division guests. In 2013 the club will celebrate the 50th anniversary, and in 2018 “Volga” will be presented with a new international-level stadium. Altogether, there are 14 operating stadiums, 5 new sports and recreation centers, 14 swimming pools (including 1 swimming pool 50 meters wide and 13 ones – 25 meters wide), a ski jumping complex, 5 ski lodges, a rowing canal in Nizhny Novgorod, every district of the city has fitness clubs and gyms. The federal club chain “World Class” and “FizKult” is constantly developing.

BUSINESS TOURISM Nizhny Novgorod is increasingly attracting national and international businessmen as a site closest to Moscow and most favorable to do business. The developed transportation and logistics infrastructure, comfortable conditions, together with high-level services and lower prices, create favorable environment to develop the MICE industry. When an additional international airport terminal will have been launched in 2014 and a congress center for 3 thousand seats in 2016, Nizhny Novgorod will become one of the biggest business centers on the Volga. 1. Exhibition complex of “Nizhny Novgorod Fair” JSC 2. Center of International Trade 3. Conference center “OkaPremium”

VAO (Russian National Joint-Stock Company) “Nizhny Novgorod Fair”

MICE infrastructure in Nizhny Novgorod hotels

One of the biggest exhibition complexes in Russia, which hosts more than 60 major exhibitions and congress events every year. The Fair has six exposition halls and five conference halls, including the solemn Armonial Hall, in its disposal. The Fair holds federal and international events. It is here, where events of the “forum” format have taken place for the first time, combining the congress and expositional parts. Such projects as International Industrial and Economic Forum “Russia United”, International Scientific and Industrial Forum “Grand Rivers”, “Russian Architectural and Constructional Forum”, “Bank Forum”, and “Auto Forum” have been acknowledged as most significant and scaled ones.

Grand Hotel Oka

World Trade Center “Nizhny Novgorod” (WTC) WTC represents the chain of national and international centers joined into the World Trade Centers Association. It is located 300 meters from the Kremlin. WTC, equipped with most recent facilities and highspeed Internet, has three conference halls for 10, 23 and 100 seats. “Media Strike Hall” press center is ready to offer such extra services as media support, PR support and services of a television production studio. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Nizhny Novgorod region, with its conference halls, concert hall, numerous meeting rooms, and modern equipment, are also listed as large business centers.

Oka allows arranging and holding major business events at a high level. The modern and well-equipped congress hotel “Oka Premium” disposes of 5 conference halls of different category and capacity up to 200.

Volna Hotel The convenient location of the Volna nearby the international airport “Nizhny Novgorod” allows holding seminars, trainings, and negotiations in the conference halls seating up to 120 people with no waste of time for transfers in the city by automobile transport.

Marins Park Hotel Marins Park Hotel is located within walking distance of Nizhny Novgorod Fair. It has the infrastructure to hold conferences, seminars, business meetings, etc. The hotel has 10 conference halls seating 10 to 350 people.

Ibis Hotel Ibis is located in the historical and business center of the city and it has a modern conference hall seating up to 100 people plus several meeting rooms.

Oktyabrskaya Hotel Oktyabrskaya is located walking distance of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin offers the guests services of a conference hall (up t to 70 people), meeting rooms and restaurant.

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Hotels, inns and hostels Nizhny Novgorod has 80 hotels and inns of different categories and comfort, from premium class hotels to modest hostels.

Grand Hotel Oka 4*, 3* (27, Gagarin Prospect)

It is situated in the central part of the city nearby the Sports Palace. The hotel consists of two buildings: “Premium” building 4* for 139 rooms and “Oka-business” building 3* for 281 rooms. General infrastructure: 2 restaurants, modern congress center, fitness club with a 25-meter swimming pool, “Oka DeLuxе” sauna club, beauty saloon, massage room, gym, “Capital Club” entertaining complex, including: a night club, bowling, billiard saloon, and musical “Kalina” disco bar, sports bar.

Alexandrovsky Sad Hotel 4 * (3, Georgievsky Descent)

It is situated in the historical part of the city in the park “Alexandrovsky Sad” on the Volga embankment, beside the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. The hotel was built in 2004; it has 49 rooms, a conference hall, restaurant, bowling center, fitness center, and a sauna. The windows of the rooms command a view to the Volga or the park.

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Volna Hotel 4* (98, Lenin Prospect) “GOST Hotel Management” Chain

It is situated nearby the international airport. The building is a historical monument of the constructivism period, it was reconstructed in 1996, and in 2011 renovation of the interior took place. In the hotel there are 198 rooms, 2 restaurants, a lobby bar, 2 conference halls and several meeting rooms, a beauty saloon, a massage room, and a gym. Boutique Whisky Bar contains the largest in the city and most interesting collection of extremely popular whiskey of the world, and taste tests take place here.

Oktyabrskaya Hotel 3* (9а, Verkhnevolzhskaya Embankment) Oktyabrskaya is located in the historical part of the city in walking distance of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. It was built in 1985, the rooms were under reconstruction in 2005. This is one of the leading business hotels of the city. There are 79 rooms, a restaurant, a bar, and a conference hall in the hotel.

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Ibis Hotel 3*

(115, M. Gorkogo Street) It is a modern hotel located in a central street within walking distance of the Kremlin. It was built in 2010. There are 220 rooms, a restaurant, a bar, a conference hall, free wireless Internet access, and computers available in the hotel.

Marins Park Hotel 3* (former Tsentralny Hotel; 12, Sovetskaya Street) The hotel is comfortably located within walking distance of Moskovsky railway station and Nizhny Novgorod Fair. The hotel has the biggest number of rooms in the city – 500 items. There is a restaurant, 2 bars, karaoke club, Irish Pub, health center, sauna, billiards, and several conference halls.

AZIMUT Hotel (former Nizhegorodsky Hotel, 2, Zalomova st.) It is located on the slope commanding a marvelous view to the Conflux, Kanavinsky bridge, Fair, Blagoveshchensky monastery and the old Lower Suburb. The hotel has 157 rooms, a restaurant for 250 guests, a bar, and a conference hall.

Nikola House Hotel (18, Pozharsky Street) It is located in the historical part of the city, couple of steps from the pedestrian street Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, opposite the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. It is a cozy classical European hotel. There are 31 rooms, a restaurant, a conference hall, and a bar in the hotel.

Nizhny Novgorod hotels - 3-2*, mini-hotels, Hostels Nikol (48 rooms), Milovidov (38), Nikitin (21), Diplomat (33), Easy Room mini-hotel (10), Russian Capital (116), Vorobey (11), Jouk Jacque (18), Sergievskaya (3), At Peter’s House (11), hotel of VPO VVAGS Gostiny Dom (12), Premier Hotel (19), Yarmarochnaya (Service-Fair) (10), Monarch (10), Aquarelle (29), Pokrovka-9а (2), Slaviya (12), Domino (10). Economy class hotels: Avtozavodskaya 2* (72), and hostels: Gorkiy Hostel, Naberezhny Hostel, Bugrov Hostel, MYSTERY Hostel, Old Hotel, etc. The official city guide of Nizhny Novgorod is www.visitnn.com

RESTAURANTS At all times people in merchant Nizhny Novgorod have been used to resting widely and on a noble scale. Nowadays the city offers its guests a wide choice of restaurants and cafes with various cuisines, including authors’ delicacies. Nizhny Novgorod is one of the few cities in Russia where there is an entire restaurant street – Rozhdestvenskaya street, where you can dine at any time of the day and have a taste of cuisines of several continents of the world.

Vitalich Restaurant

(35, Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street) Vitalich is one of the first-ever restaurants in Nizhny Novgorod. Guests are offered traditional Russian cuisine, including game dishes prepared to old recipes and self-made liqueurs, Russian interior and small displays of household items, for example samovars, and a unique VIP room in a hunting style with trophies.

Pyatkin Restaurant

(25, Rozhdestvenskaya Street) Pyatkin is located in the former merchant Pyatov’s mansion, which is a monument of architecture. Beet-root soup and rassolnik (meat or fish soup with pickled cucumbers), soup of river fish, chitterlings, jellied minced meat, minced pike, hot chicken pie, traditional Russian cereal, perfect Russian sbiten (tea with honey and spices), cider, and bitter and sweet fruit liqueurs, home-made horseradish and cranberry liqueurs selfmade – all this can be found in the Russian cuisine menu card of the restaurant. Even tea (and there is peculiar Nizhny Novgorod tea of rosebay willow-herb) is served here in samovars with doughnut-shaped bread roll, and there is traditional white lump sugar beside brown cane sugar.

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Restaurant "Monet"

(1 v, Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment,) Restaurant “Monet” is one of the most popular restaurants in Nizhny, and is situated on the tourist route from Rozhdestvenskaya Street to the Chkalov Staircase and the Alexandrovsky Garden. Here you can not only evaluate the skills of the chief cook and taste really perfect European and Japanese cuisine dishes, but also enjoy the beautiful views of the Volga River and the kremlin, and in the summertime also watch the city rhythm and even eye the daybreak on the summer terrace of the restaurant.

Kupechesky Restaurant (9, Krasnaya Sloboda)

Truly gastronomical restaurant with all of its unique author’s cuisine and culinary school. They keep traditions of meals and rest with care here, and every dish is a masterpiece. Here, for instance, is “Russian sterlet” under flavored sauce of forest mushrooms, or venison under sauce of red grapes and blueberry and juniper. Nizhny Novgorod merchants could appreciate the taste of life and did not accept fuss either in business or in meals. In this cozy and respectable at the same time atmosphere you can have both dinner and supper in best traditions of merchant meals and feel as if you were a first-guild merchant.

Billy’s Saloon

(22, Rozhdestvenskaya Street) The restaurant is open 24 hours, so you can both have a substantial breakfast after a morning train and enjoy dinner after long walks along Nizhny Novgorod. In the evening you can drop in to taste Texan-andMexican or European cuisine. And to relax completely, there is a wide choice of several dozens whiskeys and rums to your taste.

Stroganoff Stake House (37, Rozhdestvenskaya Street)

If you want to feel the genius of tsarist Russia, with interiors of elegant moulding, gold bronze and natural wood, delicate china and antiquarian attributes and, just like the head of the Stroganoffs family, adore meat dishes, you should go to the Stroganoff Stake House. Only here meat is represented as a gastronomical masterpiece: steaks of Australian and marbled beef, Stroganoff specials: Rib Eye Steak, T-bon, Filet Mignon, New-York Steak, Bone-In Striplone Steak and Chateaubriand. Here you can taste meat of any kind – baked, stewed and chopped. And you should certainly try the wine produced in Nizhny Novgorod especially for Stroganoff.

1 1. Restaurant “Biblioteca” 2. Restaurant “Bezukhov” 3. “Sport Bar” 4. In club “JamPrestige”

Nizhny is a city of literature genius, and creative traditions are kept up here to the present time. There are several bars and restaurants in the city where you can discuss in a free relaxed climate some creative topics, or just read the books which are nearby on the shelves. In restaurant “Biblioteca” on Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street you can find not only a collection of works of different genres but also a menu with verses; interesting events with the creative professionals

are held in restaurant “Bezukhov”on Rozhdestvenskaya Street. For those who like the music we can recommend a number of café-clubs, for example, jazz club “Jam-Prestige”, music café “Phonoteca”, “Music Hall” and others. For those who during the journey cannot live without the football, hockey, motor racing and other sport events there are many sport bars in the city, the most popular of which is “Sport-Bar” on Piskunova Street.

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NIGHT CLUBS Nizhny Novgorod is especially beautiful at night. Don`t fail to go for a walk in Nizhny in the evening. The Nizhny Novgorod landscapes with the evening lighting leave nobody indifferent. In the evening the guests of the city can visit bright shows, foot tapping parties, karaoke bars or just nicely talk at the bar counter tasting some popular cocktails. Don`t miss the night clubs where the local racy DJs are performing.

Complex “Premio”

(16, Nizhnevolzhskaya Embankment) Premio includes INDI CLUB which is the biggest and the most technically equipped club of the city which can contain up to 1500 guests at one time. You can choose either the hot dancefloor or a place at one of 3 bars or comfortable rest in any of six VIP ZONES to fit every taste. Dancing show of the club bears a proud name “INDI DOLLS SHOW” and is rightly considered to be the best in the city which is confirmed by many cups and awards in the collection of INDI CLUB.

T.E.A.T.R.O, (141, M. Gorkogo Street) Every Friday and Saturday “Night Illusion Club” holds parties with trendy DJs, freak shows and spectacular performances, a Go-Go Cabaret and New Age Variety, a foot tapping show and a barmen show. During the club events they use up to 50 kW of sound and 30 kW of light.

“Mikstura Bar”,

(16, Nizhnevolzhskaya Embankment) One of the newest trendy clubs of Nizhny recreates the atmosphere of a London bar on the Volga bank.

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Z-TOP, (16, Nizhnevolzhskaya Embankment) Being at the cutting edge of this industry since 2007 and till now Z-TOP does not stop to surprise its guests with bright parties, original shows and performances of the world known artists. Every Friday and Saturday Z-TOP prepares special programs for its guests. Inspiring the club life of Nizhny Z-TOP does everything to have you want to return back again and again.

MILO CONCERT HALL, (4, Rodionova Street) “MILO CONCERT HALL” is distinguished by the variety of music forms. This is a new professional and multi-type venue gathering under its roof the musicians of different genres. Here they hold big music festivals of electronic music, dancing shows, raves with the participation of the top DJs and global hip-hop, rock and punk concerts.

There are some more nightspots on Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment and Rozhdestvenskaya Street which can be interesting for those who seek entertainment and like active night life, more information you can find on the website of the city guide.

CINEMAS AND CINEMA CENTRES You will find in Nizhny Novgorod cinemas with every level of comfort and service to fit every taste – from the small ones with art-house movies to the multiplexes with the IMAX format where you can feel yourself in the heart of events of a blockbuster.

Movie theatre “Oktyabr`”, (51 А, Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street)

One of the most popular cinemas of our city is situated on the central pedestrian street of Nizhny Novgorod. The movie theater offers its guests a modern sound system and Dolby 3D digital system with passive 3D glasses. Before the movie the visitors can eat dinner in the cozy bar of the theatre or spend the time playing games.

multi-screen movie theatre The following multi-screen movie theatre chains are represented in Nizhny Novgorod: System of movie theatres “Karo-Film”: Shopping and entertainment center “Shokolad” (124, Belinskogo Street) “Rossiya” (32, Lenina Avenue) Movie theatres of the chain “Cinema Park”: Shopping and entertainment center “Sedmoe Nebo” (1, Betankura Street), Shopping and entertainment center “Fantastika” (187, Rodionova street). Chain of movie theaters “Imperiya Grez”: “Oktyabr`” (51 А , Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street), “Sormovsky” (105, Kominterna Street), “Elektron” (98, Gagarina Avenue), “Mir” (1, Molodezhny Avenue)

“Orlyonok”

(35 А, Bolshaya Pokrovskya Street)

The movie theatre “Orlyonok” is situated on the central pedestrian street Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, in the building which was designed by the famous Russian architect F. O. Shekhtel. In this place the oldest Nizhny Novgorod cinema “Palas” entertained its first cinema-goer as far back as 1912.

5-D Cinema,

(35 А, Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street) The first 5-D format cinema in Nizhny, where the journey to the virtual reality starts every 15 minutes. Here the 3D image, the moveable chairs, the large-format screen, the visual effects, the 6-channel panoramic sound create together a bright presence effect. Here you can not only see and hear but also feel all this what is on the screen.

Movie theatre “Romanov Cinema”, business center “Lobachevsky PLAZA” (10/16, Alexeyevskaya Street)

The most stylish cinema of the city secures the intimate atmosphere of a private film theatre only for you and your friends. To see a new movie in private or remember a classic one you can book one of the halls of “Romanov Cinema” for 10 – 15 persons for a private film show. The film show you can combine with the dinner which will be brought on your order from the restaurant “Рer se” directly to the hall.

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Shopping, souvenirs, gifts Nizhny Novgorod offers to its guests souvenirs and shopping to fit every taste. The land of Nizhny Novgorod is glorious by its folk artistic craft. In the specialized store “Khudozhestvennye promysly” (43, Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street) you can buy for souvenirs unique Khokhloma or Gorodets painting works, fine Kazakovo filigree products and art casting works, Shakhunya fabrics, Chkalovsk gimps and many other things. At the beginning of Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street (house number 9 Б) there is one more souvenir shop of the Nizhny Novgorod folk artistic craft. Closer to Gorkogo Square there is a traditional vernissage in the Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street, being there for more than 20 years and thanks to which Pokrovskaya Street got the second name “Nizhny Novgorod Arbat”. The souvenir showroom with large range of goods is situated at the premises of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin in front of Dmitrievskaya Tower. There are also many shops of local craftsmen at the bay of the Kremlin. If you would like to make a miraculous present to your relatives and friends we recommend you to visit the factory “Ariel” where Christmas-Tree decorations are inflated and ornamented manually. Not only President of Russia but also President of

the USA possesses a collection of Christmas-Tree decorations from this factory of Nizhny Novgorod. The guides of Nizhny Novgorod and gift books about the city you can buy in the shops of the bookshop chain “Dirizhabl`” (Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street, 46; Belingkogo Street, 118; Sovetskaya Street, 19/2) or in the Book House (14, Sovetskaya Street) next to the hotel “Marins-Park” Close to the Sport Palace (24, Beketova Street) is an antique shop “Nizhegorodskaya Starina”, where you can buy antique things with long history, unique household items (for example, a samovar), as well as rare art objects (icons, paintings etc.). The shop is a member of the “Russian Antiquarian Union” established by the biggest museums and antique shops of Moscow. Shopping and entertainment centers offer a large range of clothing, decorative items, fancy-work items. Shopping center “Respublika” (9, Revolyutsii Square) Central Universal Department Store (10, Filchenkova Street) Shopping center “Etazhi”(63, Belinskogo Street) “Shokolad” (124, Belinskogo Street) “Fantastika” (187, Rodionova Street,) Shopping and entertainment center “Sedmoe Nebo”(1, Betankura)

Background information

Transport in Nizhny Novgorod: In Nizhny Novgorod you can go by bus, minibus taxi, trolley bus, tram and metro (Nizhny has the third biggest metro in Russia – 14 stations). Taxi can be found at the special stands on the central streets of the city or rung up. The railway station of the Russian railways is called “Moskovsky”. When you depart from Moscow and other cities the arrival station of Nizhny Novgorod is called “Gorky”. The most part of the passenger trains to Moscow, Ural, Siberia, as well as to Belorussia, Mongolia and China passes through Nizhny Novgorod, including the Trans-Siberian Railway

Telephone numbers for information: City code: 831 Life-saving service - 112. City information service – +7 (831) 274-00-74 Airport – +7(831) 256-74-36 (www.nnov-airport.ru) Railway station – +7 (831) 248-28-00 River boat station – +7 (831) 430-36-60 Weather forecast – +7 (831) 412-24-11 Directorate of the Federal Migration Service for the Nizhny Novgorod region +7(831) 2999191 Representative office of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nizhny Novgorod: +7 (831) 439-13-45

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Official information on the website: нижний-новгород.рф The official city guide of Nizhny Novgorod: www.visitnn.com All about the tourism in the Nizhny Novgorod region you can find on the website www.nnwelcome.ru Taxi phone numbers “Nizhegorodets” – +7 (831) 241-3661 “Saturn” – +7 (831) 246-00-00 “Dubrovka” – +7 (831) 4-333-000 “Forsazh” – +7 (831) 255-52-22 Car rent Car hire (round-the-clock) – +7 (831) 423-70-70 Cartek +7 (831) 278-93-74 IE Gumenyuk +7-951-903-83-56

Cellular communication Rostelekom +7 (831) 222-05-05 Beeline +7 (831) 414-14-14 MTS 8 (800) 250-08-90 Megafon +7 (920) 111-05-00 Insurance companies Rosgosstrakh +7 (831) 465-60-44 Ingosstrakh +7 (831) 220-06-06 AlfaStrakhovanie +7 (831) 218-06-56 Bank services Volgo-Vyatsky Bank of Sberbank of Russia: 8 (800) 555-55-50 Alfa-Bank 8 (800) 100-77-33 VTB Bank +7 (831) 269-40-40

EVENT CALENDAR for 2013 January • 01.01 New Year celebration (festive events in the central squares of the city, a costume party in the Rozhdestvenskya Street) • 06.01-07.01 Christmas celebration in the monasteries and churches of Nizhny Novgorod • 07.01-18.01 Christmas festival in the Museum of Architecture and Live of Nizhny Novgorod and the Volga region people at the Schyolkovsky Khutor. • 7.01–19.01 Festival “Christmas Days of the Orthodox Culture” • 19.01 Baptism of Jesus celebration in the city • 25.01 Tatiana Day and Russian Students Day celebration in the night clubs of Nizhny February • 10.02 All-Russian skiing race “Ski-run of Russia” (Schyolkovsky Khutor) • Snow festival in the Open-air museum “Rozhdestvenskaya storona” (Rozhdestvenskaya Street, Markina Square) • 14.02 Saint Valentine's Day (night clubs and concert halls) • All-Russian speed skating competition “Ice of our hopes” (Sport Complex “Trud”) • 22.02 Trade fair “Farmer fest” or “Buy the goods made in Nizhny Novgorod”. Handmade gifts fair (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • 23.02 Defender of the Fatherland Day in the city of battle honor (concert halls of the city) • 24.02-29.02 International festival and contest of the classic guitarists named after A.K.Frauchi (concert halls of the city) March • 08.03 Launching of sky lanterns (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • 17.03 Maslenitsa festival in the Museum of Live of the Volga region people at Schyolkovsky Khutor and in the central squares of the city 30.03 World Earth Day. (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”)

April • 01.04 International Shawarma Day. Radiomarathon (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • 01.04-07.04 The Vth international contest of the balalaika-players and folk instrument ensembles named after M.F.Rozhkov (concert halls of the city) • 07.04 Open-air photographic exhibition (Markina Square). Handmade gifts fair (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • 13.04 World Rock-and-Roll Day (concert halls of the city) • 18.04 Monuments and Historical Places Day. City tours • 27.04 Fire Show (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • Dance sport cup competition of the head of Nizhny Novgorod administration • Spring race for awards of the Nizhny Novgorod region government • Festival “Young voices” May • 04.05-05.05 Easter celebration in Nizhny (churches and monasteries of the city, concert halls) • 05.05 Easter dance (museum of the city) • 07.05-08.05 Radio Day and the anniversary of the scientists O.Losev • 09.05 Victory Day: parade in the Minina i Pozharskogo Square, concerts, fireworks (central squares of the city) • 17.05-19.05 Festival “Days of Germany in Russia” (concert halls, exhibition halls, galleries, museums of the city) • 18.05-19.05 Night of museums (Museums of the city) • 25.05 Air Day. Kites festival. Handmade gifts fair (Rozhdestvenskya Street, Markina Square) • Festival of Actory Sketches “Merry goat” (Theatres of Nizhny Novgorod) • Sport festival (race “Chkalov Staircase”, extreme sports and developing sports competitions, student relay race etc.)

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• 31.05-03.06 Modern pentathlon world cup final • International sport dance competition “Russia” June • 01.06 Rozhdestvenskaya Street for children. Open-air photographic exhibition. (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • 03.06-06.06 International Arts Festival named after A.D.Sakharov (the Philharmonic Hall) • 06.06 Literature festival (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • 12.06 The Day of Russia. The Festival of National Artistic Trades and Applied and Decorative Art. • 21.06 International Skateboarding Day (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • Festival “Drama theater actors sing” (concert halls, theatres of the city) • Equestrian sport World Cup stage (Equestrian Centre “Passage) July • 06.07 Kissing Day. Handmade gifts fair(“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • 07.07-08.07 Russian Lovers Day (the Day of Saint Peter and Saint Fevroniya) • 13.07 Dance marathon (concert halls of the city) • 19.07 Picnic on the Rozhdestvenskaya Street (Rozhdestvenskaya Street) • 27.07 “Summer fresh”, “Farmer fest” (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) August • 10.08 Music concert (concert halls of the city) • 18.08 Russian folk fair. Strong Man Day(“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • 24.08-25.08 Open-air film festival (Markina Square) September • 07.09 Fire Day. Fire show festival (Markina Square) • 13.09 Friday, the 13th. Horror stories on the Rozhdestvenskaya Street (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”)

• 19.09 Open-air photographic exhibition (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • 21.09 Day of the Rozhdestvenskaya Street (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • City Day, central squares of the city • Governor`s Hockey Cup, city of Nizhny Novgorod, Cultural and Entertainment Complex “Nagorny” • All-Russian Running Day “Nation Run – 2013” (parks of Nizhny Novgorod, Minina i Pozharskogo Square) October • 03.10 World Architecture Day (central squares of the city) • 31.10 Halloween on the Rozhdestvenskaya Street (Rozhdestvenskya Street, Markina Square) November • 01.11 Open-air photographic exhibition (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • 04.11 National Unity Day (National Unity Square) • 23.11 Night photocross (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • All-Russian Pushkin Festival of opera and ballet “Autumn in Boldino” (Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theatre) • The XXth Russian festival “New names” (concert halls of the city) • Traditional skiing relay race dedicated to the memory of V.P.Chkalov (Schyolkovsky Khutor) December • 01.12 Festival “The First Winter Day”. Day to ask the Grandfather Frost for gifts (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • 20.12-21.12 Christmas fair (“Rozhdestvenskaya storona”) • 29.12 Celebration around the Christmas tree on the Rozhdestvenskaya Street (Markina Square)

Compiled by: E.Yemelyanova, S.Zemskov, T.Baranova, Department of Economics, Investments and I.Sintsov, A.Morozova. Entrepreneurship of Administration of the city of Nizhny The information used in the text is provided by Publishing Novgorod Office “Quarz”. tourism@admgor.nnov.ru www.visitnn.com Photos by: A.Ivasenko, N.Shabarov, S.Markov, +7 831 419-88-36, 419-37-49 43 TheProletarian official city guide of Nizhny Novgorod is www.visitnn.com Photography Agency, V.Alexeyev, B.Izvekova

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