Places to see in Nizhny Novgorod

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🏛 Minin and Pozharsky Square
The city's main square by the Dmitrovskaya Tower of the kremlin: Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, Verkhne-Volzhskaya Embankment and Zelensky Descent…
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🏛 Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
A red-brick 16th-century fortress on the high bank above the confluence of the Oka and the Volga: inside are cathedrals, museums, gardens…
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🖼 Walk along the kremlin wall and towers
A circular route along the wall-walk of the kremlin wall and museums in four towers: views of the Volga and the Strelka, and an underground…
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🏛 Cathedral of the Archangel Michael
The oldest church in the city — a 17th-century tent-roofed cathedral in the kremlin, where Kuzma Minin is buried.
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🌅 Bell tower of the Transfiguration Cathedral
A bell tower 51.5 m tall, rebuilt for the city's 800th anniversary — the highest viewpoint in the kremlin.
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✨ Military equipment display in the kremlin
In the open air by the Eternal Flame stand tanks, guns and other equipment from the Great Patriotic War — kids can spend a long time here.
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🖼 Art Museum: Russian art
The former military governor's house in the kremlin: Russian painting of the 18th–20th centuries and a separate hall with Makovsky's huge…
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🖼 Arsenal — the Pushkin Museum in the kremlin
A Neoclassical arsenal of the 1840s in the kremlin, now a branch of the Pushkin Museum with big exhibitions of 20th–21st-century art.
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🖼 Art Museum: 20th-century art
A branch of the art museum in the Upper Posad Trading Rows building on Minin Square: Russian avant-garde, painting and sculpture.
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🖼 Art Museum: foreign art (Sirotkin House)
The Neoclassical mansion of mayor Sirotkin on Verkhne-Volzhskaya: European painting and interiors with painted ceilings.
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🌅 Chkalov Stairs
A monumental figure-eight staircase from the Chkalov monument down to the Volga — the city's main postcard view.
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🚶 Verkhne-Volzhskaya Embankment
A boulevard-embankment on a high bluff: 19th and early 20th-century mansions on one side, the Volga and the forests beyond it on the other.
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🖼 Rukavishnikov Estate
A lavish mansion of the wealthy Rukavishnikov merchant family with a grand staircase, a ballroom and merchant interiors.
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🌳 Alexandrovsky Garden
The city's first English-style public park on the Volga slope: paths, stairs and views of the river.
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🚶 Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street
The city's main pedestrian street from Gorky Square to Minin Square: mansions, the State Bank, a theater and bronze sculptures of…
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🏛 Gorky Square
A square with a garden and a monument to Gorky at the start of Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, by Gorkovskaya metro station.
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🏛 State Bank building
A bank like a fairy-tale palace in the Neo-Russian style: it was opened for the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov.
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🏛 Gorky Drama Theater
One of the oldest theaters in Russia, in the former Nikolaevsky Theater building of 1896 on Pokrovka.
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🖼 Toy Museum
A small toy museum in a basement on Pokrovka: the collection of the artist Alexander Lavrov, plus tours and workshops for children.
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🖼 Technical Museum
Antique machines and mechanisms that you can not only look at but touch and start up: the exhibits stand without display cases.
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🖼 Kladovka. Gallery of Stories
An intimate exhibition space of the Nizhny Novgorod State Museum-Reserve in the courtyard of house No. 8 on Pokrovka.
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🖼 Kashirin House — Gorky's childhood museum
The house of Maxim Gorky's grandfather, described in the novel "Childhood": rooms, a yard and the dye-works where the future writer grew up.
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🖼 Gorky Museum-Apartment
The apartment where the already famous Gorky lived with his family in 1902–1904; Feodor Chaliapin stayed here as a guest.
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🚶 Rozhdestvenskaya Street
A street in the former Lower Posad by the Volga: apartment buildings and banks of the early 20th century, housing most of the city's bars…
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🏛 Stroganov (Nativity) Church
A church of the late 17th century on Rozhdestvenskaya, carved like a jewelry box and built with the money of the merchant Grigory Stroganov.
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🚶 Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment
A wide embankment right by the water under the kremlin — from the Chkalov Stairs to Kanavinsky Bridge, with a bike path and a view of the…
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🌅 Fedorovsky Embankment
A viewpoint on the bluff above Rozhdestvenskaya: the best view of the Strelka, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the confluence of the Oka and…
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🌅 Kanavinsky Bridge
The first permanent bridge across the Oka: it takes 10–15 minutes to walk across, with a view of the Strelka and the kremlin.
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🌳 The Strelka
The spit where the Oka flows into the Volga: an embankment right by the water, lawns by the stadium, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and a view…
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🏛 Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
A huge cathedral on the Strelka, built with the money of the fair's merchants — you can see it from anywhere above the Oka.
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🖼 Pakgauzy on the Strelka
Openwork metal pavilions of 19th-century all-Russian exhibitions on the Strelka — now a concert hall and exhibition center.
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🏛 Main Fair House
A Russian-style arcade — the former office of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair, the main fair of 19th-century Russia.
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🏛 Pechersky Ascension Monastery
A quiet monastery above the Volga in Pechory: the 17th-century Ascension Cathedral, tent-roofed churches and a view of the river.
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✨ Grechko Planetarium
A planetarium by Moskovsky Station: shows under the starry dome for children and adults, and Sun observations through a telescope by day.
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🏛 Meteor monument on Burevestnik Square
A hydrofoil on a pedestal — in honor of the Sormovo designers of the fast Meteors and Raketas.
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🌳 Sormovsky Park
A huge park of the 1930s on the site of the Daryinsky pine forest: pines, a lake, rides and the Krasnoye Sormovo Palace of Culture at the…
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🏛 Sormovo "Pyatak"
A square in the center of Old Sormovo that locals have long called the "Pyatak" (five-kopeck piece): in 2005 a huge 19th-century…
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🏛 Transfiguration Cathedral in Sormovo
A Neo-Byzantine cathedral of the early 20th century, built for the workers of the Sormovo plants — the main vertical landmark of Old…
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🏛 School of Barricades
A brick school of 1903 that became the headquarters of the Sormovo uprising in December 1905; today it houses a lyceum.
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🏛 Church of Alexander Nevsky at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant
The first church of factory Sormovo, next to the plant's office; in Soviet times it housed the plant canteen.
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🏛 Glory Square: the Sormovo tanks
A memorial by the plant: the first Soviet tank of 1920 and a T-34-85 — both built at Krasnoye Sormovo.
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✨ Limpopo Zoo
Russia's first private zoo on the edge of Sormovsky Park: more than two hundred species of animals and a hands-on "Russian Village".
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🖼 GAZ History Museum
The museum of the Gorky Automobile Plant: the history of the plant and GAZ vehicles of different years — from Volgas to Gazelles.
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🚶 Sotsgorod
A Stalinist "garden city" at the car plant: grand 1930s buildings, a department store, the Mir cinema and wide avenues.
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🏛 The "Radius" House
An arc-shaped building of 1935 that follows the curve of Molodyozhny Prospekt — one of the most striking buildings in Sotsgorod.
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🏛 GAZ Palace of Culture
The monumental palace of culture of the car plant on Kiselyov Square — the grand center of Sotsgorod.
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🌳 Avtozavodsky Park
A park of the 1930s behind the Palace of Culture: ponds, alleys and a fountain built by the plant itself.
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🏛 Kanavinsky Bus Station
A bus station by Moskovskoye Highway, a 15-minute walk from Moskovskaya metro: buses to Gorodets leave from here.
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🏛 Feodorovsky Monastery
A monastery on the Volga bank linked with Alexander Nevsky and the Feodorovskaya icon; the main church was rebuilt in 2009.
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🖼 Gorodets Pryanik Museum
A museum of printed gingerbread in a merchant's estate on Lenin Street: gingerbread molds, the history of the craft and gingerbread to take…
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🖼 Terem of the Russian Samovar
A samovar museum in the Grishaev estate on the Volga embankment.
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🖼 City of Masters
A wooden crafts town on the Volga embankment with workshops and exhibitions.
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🖼 Gorodets Painting Museum
A new museum in 19th-century trading rows: more than 400 items with Gorodets painting — from antique plates to the work of 20th-century…
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🏛 Moskovsky Station
The city's main railway station and Moskovskaya metro station: suburban trains to Semyonov leave from here.
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🖼 Semyonov History and Art Museum
Semyonov's town museum: the history of the Old Believer region and local crafts.
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🖼 Golden Khokhloma Museum Center
A museum and tourist center at the Khokhloma Painting factory: Khokhloma of different years — from antique ladles to modern tableware.
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🖼 House of Semyon the Spoon-Maker
A wooden house-museum about spoon-makers — the craftsmen who turned and painted wooden spoons.
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🖼 Museum of the Matryoshka and Traditional Toys
A museum of the Semyonov matryoshka — bright, with a lush bouquet on the apron — and of the wooden toy.
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🏛 Arzamas Cathedral Square
Arzamas's main square on the hill: the Resurrection Cathedral, St Nicholas Monastery and the 1721 town magistrate building in one frame.
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🏛 Resurrection Cathedral in Arzamas
A huge Neoclassical cathedral at the top of the hill, built to mark the victory of 1812 — you can see it from anywhere in the town.
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🖼 Museum of the Russian Patriarchate
The only museum devoted entirely to the Russian patriarchs, in the undercroft of the Resurrection Cathedral.
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🖼 Town Magistrate Museum
A museum in the 1721 town magistrate building on Cathedral Square — one of the oldest civic buildings in Arzamas.
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🏛 St Nicholas Monastery
A 16th-century convent on Cathedral Square with the Epiphany and St Nicholas cathedrals.
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🏛 Transfiguration Monastery
A 16th-century monastery for men near Cathedral Square; the bell tower gives a view of the domes of the whole center.
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🖼 Arzamas History and Art Museum
Arzamas's main museum in the house of the pharmacist Moskvin on Cathedral Square — about the history of the town and the region.
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🖼 Arkady Gaidar House-Museum
The house where the schoolboy Arkady Golikov — the future writer Gaidar — lived in 1912–1918.
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🏛 St Nicholas Church of the Intercession Monastery
A tent-roofed church of 1552 — the same age as the capture of Kazan and one of the oldest stone churches in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
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🏛 Intercession Church
A stone church of 1648 next to St Nicholas — together they are what remains of the Intercession Monastery.
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🖼 Plotnikov House — Balakhna Museum Complex
The house of the merchant shipbuilder Plotnikov with authentic interiors of the second half of the 19th century and workshops on Balakhna…
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🖼 Clay Museum
A small museum next to Plotnikov House — about Balakhna's pottery, brick and tile making.
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🖼 Kuzma Minin Museum
A museum about Kuzma Minin and the Time of Troubles, in the town considered the birthplace of the militia's hero.
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✨ Military Vehicles Museum in Bor
An open-air display of military equipment on Kiselyov Street — open at any time.
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🏛 Frog Fountain
A green frog fountain on Lenin Street — one of the most recognizable symbols of Bor.
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🏛 Dormition Church in Bor
An Empire-style church of 1826 on Internatsionalnaya Street.
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🖼 Bor Local History Museum
A museum in a merchant mansion on Internatsionalnaya Street: the history of Bor, local crafts and everyday life.
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🌅 Viewpoint over the Volga in Bor
The high bank of the Volga across from Nizhny: the kremlin, the Chkalov Stairs and Rozhdestvenskaya across the river, especially beautiful…
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