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      Pokrovka, coffee and a view of the Volga

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A little over an hour on the main pedestrian street: the fairy-tale bank, coffee and a waffle by Minin Square and the viewpoint by the Chkalov monument over the Volga.

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        🏛 State Bank building
        Большая Покровская ул., 26
        A bank like a fairy-tale palace in the Neo-Russian style: it was opened for the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov.
        From Gorkovskaya metro 10 minutes along Pokrovka. The bank of 1913 — we look from outside; walk around the fence with the clock-bell tower.
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        State Bank building
        © Bestalex · CC BY-SA 3.0
        State Bank building
        © Bestalex · CC BY 3.0
        • The complex was built in 1911–1913 to a design by the architect Vladimir Pokrovsky.
        • The occasions were the 50th anniversary of the State Bank in 1910 and the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov in 1913.
        • The building was consecrated on 14 May 1913, and that same year Nicholas II came to Nizhny for the celebrations.
        • The complex includes the main building, a staff wing, a wrought-iron fence with a gate, and a clock-bell tower.
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      3. 2
        🚶 Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street
        Большая Покровская ул.
        The city's main pedestrian street from Gorky Square to Minin Square: mansions, the State Bank, a theater and bronze sculptures of townspeople.
        Walk along pedestrian Pokrovka to the kremlin: the Drama Theater, the Nobility Assembly, bronze townspeople.
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        Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street
        © Алексей Трефилов · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street
        © Readdiwiki · CC0
        • The street is 2,232 m long, of which 1,236 m is pedestrian.
        • Until 1917 Pokrovka was regarded as a street of the nobility.
        • In the 1621–1622 cadastre its precursor was called Bolshaya Nikolskaya.
        • For the All-Russian Exhibition of 1896 one of the first tram lines was run along the street.
        • In 1913 the State Bank was built on the street.
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      5. 3
        ☕️ Coffee Cake on Pokrovka
        Большая Покровская ул., 2
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        Coffee with a waffle at the corner with Minin Square, from 8 a.m.
        🍴 A coffee shop and patisserie at the very start of Pokrovka, by Minin Square, open from 8 a.m. What to order: waffles with peanut cream and salted caramel, the big breakfast, borscht.
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      7. 4
        🏛 Minin and Pozharsky Square
        пл. Минина и Пожарского
        The city's main square by the Dmitrovskaya Tower of the kremlin: Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, Verkhne-Volzhskaya Embankment and Zelensky Descent all branch off from here.
        The square by the Dmitrovskaya Tower — then right, onto Verkhne-Volzhskaya Embankment.
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        Minin and Pozharsky Square
        © Алексей Трефилов · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The square used to be called Verkhnebazarnaya: it was the center of the Upper Posad, where overland trade routes met.
        • It is named after Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, who raised the 1611–1612 militia in Nizhny.
        • The copy of the Minin and Pozharsky monument from Red Square stands not here but under the kremlin walls, on People's Unity Square.
        • On the square are Minin University, the Chkalov monument and the city's first fountain.
        • The square is open to traffic: it is closed to cars only on public holidays.
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      9. 5
        🌅 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.
        Finish at the viewpoint by the Chkalov monument: the Volga, the Strelka and Bor on the other bank.
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        Chkalov Stairs
        © Алексей Трефилов · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Chkalov Stairs
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Chkalov Stairs
        © Vityavo · CC0
        • 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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