🏛 Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

Кремль, вход с пл. Минина и Пожарского

A red-brick 16th-century fortress on the high bank above the confluence of the Oka and the Volga: inside are cathedrals, museums, gardens and viewing platforms.

The stone kremlin was founded on 1 September 1500, and the main work went on from 1508.
In 1505 construction was interrupted by the siege of the city by the army of the Kazan khan Muhammad Amin.
The two-kilometer wall has 13 towers: five gate towers and eight blind round ones.
Of the surviving kremlins, Nizhny Novgorod's is second in area and wall length only to Moscow's.
In 1929 the Transfiguration Cathedral was blown up, and the House of Soviets was built in its place.
In 1935–1937 part of the wall with the Dmitrovskaya Tower was to be demolished to widen the square, but the kremlin survived.
Today the kremlin houses the presidential envoy, the regional governor and the city mayor.