New restaurants by the Volga

⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 2📍 6 stops

🐢 A little — under 3 km

Two new Russian-cuisine restaurants and a walk between them: down the Chkalov Stairs and along Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment, through Rozhdestvenskaya to the viewpoint over the Strelka.

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🌅 Chkalov Stairs
от памятника Чкалову до Нижне-Волжской наб.
A monumental figure-eight staircase from the Chkalov monument down to the Volga — the city's main postcard view.
Head down from the Chkalov monument to the Volga.
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- The design was approved in 1943 and the stairs opened in 1949; the authors are Alexander Yakovlev, Lev Rudnev and Vladimir Munts.
- Officially they are the Volga Stairs, but since the 1980s they have been called the Chkalov Stairs, after the monument to the pilot Valery Chkalov at the top.
- The staircase is built as a figure eight, with viewing platforms where the flights cross.
- Below, on a pedestal, stands the Volga Military Flotilla boat "Geroy" — it was put there in 1985.
- From the top you can see the Volga, the Strelka and the town of Bor on the far bank.
- For the city's 800th anniversary the stairs were restored: the crumbled steps were replaced, keeping two historic flights.
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🚶 Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment
Нижне-Волжская наб.
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 Strelka.
Walk west along the embankment toward Kanavinsky Bridge: the kremlin on its hill on the left, the Volga on the right.
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- The embankment runs along the Volga for a little over 3 km, from Kazansky Descent to Kanavinsky Bridge.
- The section from Kazansky Descent to the former river terminal was landscaped in 2013, and a bike path appeared there in 2014.
- The second part, to Kanavinsky Bridge, was opened for walking in time for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
- At the foot of the Chkalov Stairs, on a pedestal, stands the Volga Military Flotilla boat "Geroy".
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🍽 Khlebnaya Pristan Restaurant
Нижне-Волжская наб., 21
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A new restaurant by the water: blini, pies from a wood-fired oven and panoramic windows onto the Volga.
🍴 A new restaurant on Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment from Bezukhov's chef Alexander Golyshev: Russian food from a wood-fired oven, a blini station and panoramic windows onto the Volga. What to order: blini, oven pies, pelmeni (dumplings), medovik (honey cake) with farm honey.
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🏛 Stroganov (Nativity) Church
Рождественская ул., 34А
A church of the late 17th century on Rozhdestvenskaya, carved like a jewelry box and built with the money of the merchant Grigory Stroganov.
Across the road is the carved Stroganov Church of the late 17th century.
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- The church was built in 1696–1719 with funds from the merchant Grigory Dmitrievich Stroganov.
- It is one of the finest examples of the Stroganov style and a federally protected architectural monument.
- Construction was almost finished by 1701, but a fire got in the way; the main altar was consecrated on 21 June 1719.
- According to tradition, Peter I prayed here on 29 May 1722, on the eve of his 50th birthday.
- In the 1860s the bell tower began to lean dangerously and over 20 years tilted by 1.2 m.
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🌅 Fedorovsky Embankment
наб. Федоровского (Парк 800-летия)
A viewpoint on the bluff above Rozhdestvenskaya: the best view of the Strelka, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the confluence of the Oka and the Volga.
Climb the stairs to the viewpoint: the Strelka, the cathedral and the stadium laid out before you.
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- The embankment is named after the geologist Nikolai Fedorovsky, and was earlier called the Upper Oka Embankment.
- From 1896 to 1928 the Pokhvalinsky funicular ran here.
- The monument to Maxim Gorky on the embankment was put up in 1972.
- In 2021 the embankment became part of the Nizhny Novgorod 800th Anniversary Park.
- In 2022 its landscaping project won the top award of the "Golden Capital" architecture rating.
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🍽 Siberian Lights Restaurant
Рождественская ул., 24
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Another newcomer: pirozhki (small pies) with muksun or with lingonberry and pine nuts, oven-baked buckwheat with duck.
🍴 A new restaurant on Rozhdestvenskaya from the team behind PINCI and Moskva-Stambul: modern Russian cuisine with a Siberian character and its own baking. What to order: pirozhki (small pies) with muksun or with lingonberry and pine nuts, muksun with green peas, oven-baked buckwheat with duck.