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Mission Day Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod - One of the Most Beautiful Cities in Russia.
The city is situated in the center of the vast Russian Plain on the hills at the confluence of the two full-flowing rivers the Oka and the Volga. Ilya Repin, Russian landscape painter qualified it a "royal location". In fact, the city residents call it Nizhny, as distinct from Velikiy Novgorod, another ancient town in the North-East of Russia inhabited by Novgorodians.
The city is situated in the center of the vast Russian Plain on the hills at the confluence of the two full-flowing rivers the Oka and the Volga. Ilya Repin, Russian landscape painter qualified it a "royal location". In fact, the city residents call it Nizhny, as distinct from Velikiy Novgorod, another ancient town in the North-East of Russia inhabited by Novgorodians.
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Swag, group photo, registration and check-out
21B Pochainskaya str, Nizhny Novgorod
Time
10.00 - 18.00
SCHEDULE
AUGUST 18, 2018
10:00
Registration open
10:00 – 12:30
Paid and free swag collection
13:00
Group photo
till 18:00
till 20:00
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The house of Peter the Great
A bright example of the stone buildings of the XVII century. The name is given due to the legend that Peter the Great stayed in this house twice. There are only 30 building of the same age in Russia, three of them are located in Nizhny Novgorod.
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Chambers of merchant Olisov
Alesha Peshkov museum
Church of the Virgin Mary Icon
The "chest box" building
Gorky Square
The Chambers of merchant Olisov. Built in the XVII century, the Chambers of merchant Olisov are one of the main places of interest in the Old City district called Zapochaina. Not long before there's been a house nearby where a famous Russian mechanic Ivan Kulibin lived.
Maxim Gorky Childhood Museum (Kashirin House). The house of Gorky's grandfather described in the "Childhood" novel. The central part of the exhibition - household items that belonged to Kashirin-Peshkov family and were typical for the XIX century.
The church of the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan build upon the project of Nikitin.A in 1890s. It replaced a wooden church that long time ago serves as a border of the Old City. Designed to resemble an Old Russian art of building.
Designed to resemble an Old building, the house is considered one of the best built in Russia in the end of the XX century. This orbed building with a huge ornamental panel is frequently called "Chest with a lock".
One of three main squares of the city. It was a boggy ravine till the middle of 19th century though. Since the middle of 20th century it is an example of landscape art and botanical garden (a few know of) in the centre of the city.
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Bolshaia Pokrovskaia
Main pedestrian street of the city named after church (demolished). Used to be a road to Moscow in the Middle Ages. Most prestigious street since the middle of 19th century. Virtually every building - a monument of architecture.
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The State Bank building
The Drama Theater
The "Funny Goat" sculpture
The Chess house
The Children's Creativity Palace
Building in neo-russian style constructed in 1913 in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov Family. Legend says that its clock tower was built over night just before the arrival of Nicholas II, to hide a balcony with hanging pantaloons
from the Emperor's sight.
from the Emperor's sight.
The history of the theater dates back to 1798, when Prince Shakhovskoy opened a public theater in N.Novgorod. Building on the Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street was completed in 1896 and named The Nikolaevsky Nizhny Novgorod Drama Theater.
The Nizhny Novgorod coat of arms (a red deer with horns thrown back on its back and somehow gently raised front leg) gave rise to another symbol of the city - Cheerful Goat. Sculpture installed on the Theater Square stands for the festival of theater skits.
The gambling house of A.I. Troitsky, was built in the beginning of XX century. There are busts-augurs in the form of human heads on the pylons of the building. They bent over a roof made in the form of a chessboard. Entrance has horseshoe shape to bring luck.
Built in 1916 for Nizhny Novgorod branch of Peasants' Land Bank (which ceased operations year later). Building was handed to Palace of Pioneers in 1936. Building housed the first in the country indoor children's swimming pool, and the young cynologists club.
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Memorial to Pyotr Nesterov
The memorial of the aerobatics founder was mounted in 1987 in celebration of his 100th anniversary. It's a model of Newport-4 aircraft on the board of which he performed the famous loop the loop called after him.
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Rukavishnikov's Mansion
Monument to Valery Chkalov
The Arsenal
The sculpture of St. George
The Kremlin
The most luxurious living house in the history of our city. The manor house built in 1877 in a style of Italian palazio. Built with amazing interiors and exteriors, it was the first house with electricity and lift.
Famous Soviet aircraft test pilot, born in the upper Volga region near Nizhny Novgorod. He commanded the first non-stop flight via the North Pole from USSR to the American Pacific Coast in 1937.
The building for weapon storage was built in 1843 by edict of Nikolay I during the Kremlin reconstruction. One of the most prominent arts of classicism that preserved its initial look. Nowadays is a contemporary art museum.
A part of the «Gorky people to the front line» memorial. Mounted in 1995 as a symbol of Victory in memory of unfadable act of courage that our fellow citizens performed during the Great Patriotic War.
The fortress in the historical center of Nizhny Novgorod and the most ancient part of the city (XVI century). The two kilometer wall was fortified with 13 towers. Legend says there's an old Ivan's the Terrible library hidden somewhere under the Kremlin walls.
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The Minin and Pozharsky Monument
Reduced copy of the monument installed on the Red Square in Moscow (originally that monument was supposed to be installed in Nizhny Novgorod). Established in memory of the people's militia formed in 1611 in N. Novgorod against the Polish invaders.
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Rozhdestvenskaya Street
The River Station
Blinovskiy Passage
The Church of the Nativity
Fedorovsky Embankment
One of the oldest and most beautiful streets of the city. It has always played an important role in the business life of the whole country: it housed trade offices, banks and exchanges, as well as the merchants' houses. You'll see more than 30 historical buildings.
The ship-shaped building was built in 1964 on the place of unloading dock ships moored to. Today it serves as an office for the "Volga shipping line" shipping company. Also there's an in-house marine museum inside.
The House of merchants Blinovy was built in 1876-1878 and is styled to look as an Ancient Rus. There were shops, offices, telegraph, hotel, restaurant and storage facilities inside. It was the largest building in N. Novgorod back in 19th century. Populated by ghosts)
The church, also known as the Stroganov Church, was built in 1696-1719 on the means of a rich merchant Stroganov. It is one of the best examples of the so-called "Stroganov Baroque" style. To this day, the clock on its bell-tower is winded up manually.
Get your tumbler and wine ready to enjoy sunset. This is the best viewing point to overlook both the Oka and the Volga rivers.
The monument "Sitting Gorky" is one of the main attractions on the embankment is located in the very beginning of it.
The monument "Sitting Gorky" is one of the main attractions on the embankment is located in the very beginning of it.
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The Main Fair Building
The history of the Fair started more than 400 years ago. Being on the main waterway of Russia - the Volga river, and in close proximity to Moscow, Fair performed the most important function of the "exchange spot of Europe and Asia". The main Fair was built in 1890.
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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
The Cableway
The Glory Park
The Deer
The Chkalov Steps
Built in 1881 in memory of the visit of the fair by Emperor Alexander II, who chose the Arrow, where the Volga and the Oka Rivers meet, to be the place for the Cathedral. There is no pile foundation and "it was a centric monumental building with five octagonal tents."
NN Cableway is a gondola lift cable car link across the Volga River connecting the city of Nizhny Novgorod with the town of Bor. The altitude variation between stations is 62m. The cableway has the longest unsupported sections in Europe - 861m while the total length is 3661 meters.
The park was founded in 1985 in memory of the 40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, though the first vehicles (aircraft, tank, mine thrower and air defense gun) were mounted only in 2012. Nowadays there are more than 40 vehicles in the Glory Park.
The symbol of the City that welcomes the tourists arriving from the Volga River side. The 5-meter-long artwork created by Gabor Miklos Szoke, a famous Hungarian artist, was transported to Nizhny Novgorod and mounted at the Lower Volga Embankment in 2014.
The Chkalov Stairs is a monumental flight of steps in the center of Nizhny Novgorod, linking the city's two main embankments. Consisting of 560 stairs, it is the longest staircase in Russia.
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