The city above the Volga and Oka

This is a multivariate tour that gives a general view
about the history of the city, and about the appearance and events of the modern life of almost 1.5 million of the city, which is preparing to celebrate its 800th anniversary in 2021.

The tour route lies within the historical reserve center, where the main monuments of history and culture, such as: Appeals with the monument to Minin and Pozharsky by the sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, Chkalov staircase, "Kashirina House" - the childhood museum of A. M. Gorky, temples-monuments of the UVII century: I. Predtechi, S. Radonezhsky, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin (Stroganovskaya); merchant chambers of the UVII-UVIII century - unique monuments of federal significance, as well as protected streets - Christmas, Ilinskaya, Varvarskaya, Minakhinskaya, and Dra.

Passage through the ancient streets of Nizhny makes it possible to remember the famous Nizhny Novgorod residents and guests of the city - writers: A.M. Gorky, P.I. Melnikov-Pechersky, V.Dal, T.G. Shevchenko, N. Dobrolyubov; great pilots V.P. Chkalov and P.N. Nesterov; the great mathematician N. Lobachevsky and the great mechanic I.P. Kulibin, the memory of which keep the names of old houses and sculptural monuments.

Along with them, you can see new buildings in the city center, which show the “pros” and “cons” of modern architecture and indicate that the city lives not only in the past, but also confidently, sometimes “down” looks into the future.

The tour includes a visit to the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, an outstanding monument of history and military engineering architecture of the early VYI century. The Kremlin now performs several functions. It is now the administrative, memorial and historical center of the city. On the territory of its 5 historical monuments: the Arkhangelsk Cathedral - the tomb of Minin, the great patriot of the Russian land, the Obelisk Minin and Pozharsky of 1826, two memorials dedicated to the labor and combat feat of the Gorky people during the Second World War and the youngest monument to the Kremlin - a monument to the founder of the city, Mr. Yuri Vsevolodovich and his spiritual mentor, St. Simon (2008).

The tour route includes a visit to one or two observation decks, which offers a fascinating view of the confluence of the great rivers Oka and Volga, the famous Strelka, Nizhny Novgorod Fair, industrial Zarechye.

N. Novgorod is not only an ancient city, included in the number of 100 historical cities in the world, but also a dynamically developing industrial center of the country - the city of science and technology, the birthplace of many innovative technologies in the field of mechanical engineering and military production.

If desired, a more detailed acquaintance with industrial Zarechye is possible. For this purpose, thematic excursions "Sotsgorod" with a tour of the GAZ Museum and "Our Sormovo" - two leading industrial districts of the city.

The sightseeing tour route can include acquaintance with the main street of the city - B. Pokrovka. It is rightly called “Nizhny Novgorod Arbat”. It is a pedestrian street where “no house is a monument”. The most interesting buildings are the Drama Theatre (1896) and the State Bank (1913). In the area of this street there are 8 museums: “Art crafts”, “Pokrovka, 8”, “Russian photography” – the only one in Russia, two exhibition halls, a private museum of floristics “Yurkovka”, the museum of N.A. Dobrolyubov, an exotic museum of living tropical butterflies. The most popular and most visited is Yurkovka. In the area of this street there are three most popular city theaters - the Drama Theater, the Comedy Theater and the Puppet Theater, cozy restaurants, cafes, branded stores such as "Art crafts", art salons, an exhibition - the vernissage of Nizhny Novgorod artists. The landmark of the modern street were monuments of small architectural form - sculptures of the City, Photographer, Merchant, Merry Goat, Pianist, which remind of the pages of life and life of the city of the XIX century. Here you can see the new symbol of the city. St. Petersburg has a "chizhik-pyzhik" and we have a "sparrow" - a reminder of one of the first children's stories of A. M. Gorky:

“Oh, wingless man,

You have two legs,

Even though you're very big,

The midges eat you!

And I'm very small,

But you eat the midges.

A tour of B.Pokrovka can be combined with a visit to one of the museums.