Neighborhood of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

Walking tour of the historical center of Nizhny Novgorod.

It is dedicated to the oldest ray streets that depart from the walls of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin and protected corners that preserve the pre-revolutionary past.

You will walk along the street Big Pokrovskaya - the main pedestrian artery of the city. This ancient road to Moscow used to sink into the greenery of noble estates, and then, after the abolition of serfdom, became a place of profitable houses, best shops and restaurants. In Soviet times, new buildings in the style of Stalin's Empire appeared on it. In 1983, it became the first pedestrian street in our country. It is on it that the most beautiful building of the Central Bank of Russia, built according to the project of architect Vladimir Pokrovsky in 1913, is located.

You can find yourself on the Upper Volga embankment - a unique walking area where the best views of the Volga and the most beautiful houses. Among them is the mansion of Sergei Mikhailovich Rukavishnikov, the heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune made by ancestors on the iron and steel trade. On the construction of his mansion, he spent in 1877 one million royal rubles.

And finally, if you want - go down to the semi-pedestrian street Christmas, the city of the XIX century, which has not changed its appearance since that time. Originating in the era of the Mongol-Tatar yoke as a trading area of the ancient city, it turned into a fashionable oasis of banks, offices, expensive shops and restaurants. However, this did not prevent her from neighboring the street of the Nizhny Novgorod poor - Millionnaya, where the events took place, based on which Maxim Gorky wrote his play "At the Bottom".

A walk along the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin and the oldest streets of Nizhny Novgorod that depart from it in the form of rays.