Wooden Sormovo: About lions, mermaids and shores

30 minutes from the center of Nizhny Novgorod - and you are in a fairy tale.

Sormovo is not only the history of Russian industry. It is also an amazing world of wooden architecture of the 19th century. Not a museum, not a reserve, but houses where people still live. And their world for more than 150 years guarded by lions, berevini and "world trees". The image of a house in which one family lives for generations is an image of the whole world.

The fact that for us almost forgotten fairy tales - in the XIX century, everyone understands the language of symbols that have come down to us since pre-Christian times.

Want to know why the “mermaid sits on the branches”, what Russian lions look like and what the “World Tree” is – welcome to the old Sormovo! There, where house carvings are not in the museum collection, but on the houses of modern citizens.

Excursions in pedestrian and auto format, from 2 to 4 hours. More time allows you to expand the route and see more. Trust me, it's worth it!