Travel to Nizhny Novgorod - the Volga capital
The French novelist of the nineteenth century Theophilus Gauthier in a trip to Russia exclaimed: “Is it possible to live without seeing Nizhny Novgorod?”
With him mentally agreed different thinkers, poets and philosophers. For example, A. Dumas wrote: I cried out with surprise at the sight of the picture opened to my eyes. We were at the confluence of the Volga and the Oka.
Nizhny Novgorod A pearl on the Volga, a modern Russian metropolis and a millionaire city.
Nizhny Novgorod is an ancient Russian city with a rich history, with unique monuments of history and architecture, which are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Lower (as this beautiful city is often called) is located on Strelka, at the confluence of two great Russian rivers. Okey. and Volga. Its glorious history begins in 1221 (the first mention and the year of its foundation).
In the XIII - XVII centuries, the city was called Novgorod of the Nizov land. In the Soviet Union, until 1990, Gorky in memory of the writer A. M. Peshkov (his pseudonym is Gorky).
On July 2, 2020, the President of the Russian Federation awarded the city the title “City of Labor Valor”.
Nizhny Novgorod is native to many great people, they were born here, lived and worked for a long time: icon painter Theophanes the Greek, inventor I. Kulibin, mathematician N. Lobachevsky, prose writer V. Korolenko, surgeon B. Korolev, writer M. Gorky and many others.
Nizhny Novgorod until 1917, the whole century bore the title of "pocket of Russia", the whole world traded in the city, and from that era the Main Fairhouse, the Spassky Old Yarmark Cathedral, remained. Alexander Nevsky Novoyarmarka Cathedral.
Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin (built in the XVI century) is the oldest defensive structure of the city, which has no analogues among domestic and European fortresses.
Nizhny Novgorod is called the capital of the most beautiful sunsets in Russia, because fantastic views open from the city hills almost every evening (but during the day there are also stunning landscapes).
From a height you can see the Volga, the Oka, the temple of Alexander Nevsky and Christmas (Stroganovskaya) Church, the oldest pedestrian Christmas street. Canavina Bridge and the Arrow Stadium.
Upper Volga And the Lower Volga Embankments, Fedorovskaya embankment - beautiful places in the very center for recreation and walks of citizens and tourists.
Attractions: majestic Chkalov staircase in the style of Stalin's Empire, Monument to Peter I, Boat "Hero", Chapel of Feodor Ushakov, luxurious manorIn which they say they saw ghosts, the monument to Maxim Gorky.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, interesting urban sculptures appeared in Nizhny Novgorod, which are designed to perpetuate the memory of the citizens of past decades and even centuries. Old street Big Pokrovskaya decorates the monument"The Photographer and His Model Dog"It is a reminder of the lost profession of a street photographer. It is symbolic that the sculpture is installed next to the Museum of Photography.
On the same street - a monument with an interesting name - "Butler-on a cup of coffee look", sculptures.Young violinist"Romantic postman near post officeand others.
The most interesting city landmark and architectural monument are radius houses in the Avtozavodsk district and on the Fedorovskaya embankment, built in 1935 - the first, in 1966 - the second.
The unique transport of Nizhny Novgorod is a cable car: from Nizhny to suburban Bor and back you can get over the Volga in 12.5 minutes - this is a distance of 3661 m. The road was opened in 2012, and engineers set an absolute official domestic record - 861.21 m is a span over the river.
Citizens use a rope to quickly and comfortably get from work to home and back, and for travelers there is a special service - a flight accompanied by a guide.
The fare per person is 100 rubles. in one direction, children under 7 years - free, from 7 - 12 - 50 rubles. There are tickets for sale at reduced rates and tickets (prices are indicated at the time of publication: September 2020).
From the Volga and Oka, Nizhny Novgorod appears in all its grandeur: with ancient merchant mansions and modern new buildings, with monumental embankments and the ancient Kremlin. In the Lower possible amazing walks on river boats. You have to keep up while the weather is warm!
From Nizhny Novgorod you can go to the mysterious lake SvetloyarIn which, according to legend, the city of Kitezh disappeared; in the estates of the Pashkovs and Zhomini; in Bolshaya Boldino; Gorodets; Arzamas; Semenov; Ichalkovo Bor and Caves; Holy Trinity Seraphimo-Diveevsky monastery.
Text: Pauline M.
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