Nizhny Novgorod is called the third capital and "pocket of Russia". The city was founded in 1221 by the Vladimir-Suzdal prince Yury Vsevolodovich in the Mordovian lands as a border fortress. The city has preserved many unique monuments of history, architecture and culture, which gave UNESCO a reason to include Nizhny Novgorod in the list of 100 cities of the world representing world historical and cultural value.
The city stands at the confluence of the rivers Oka with the Volga, Oka divides the city into two parts - the upper one on the Djatlovy Mountains and the lower one on the left low bank.
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How to get to Nizhny Novgorod?
Up to Nizhny Novgorod from Moscow fly airplanes from Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo. In short, to find the right flight and the airline will not be difficult. Flight time 40-50 minutes.
Nizhny Novgorod's international airport Strigino is located on the outskirts of the Avtozavodsky district, 15 km south-west of the city center. In the summer of 2010 he will send flights to Anapa (Uteir), Norilsk and Belgorod ("KavMinvodyAvia"), Sochi ("Yamal"), as well as year-round destinations - Baku, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan, Moscow, Samara and Surgut. In the charter program of the airport: Tatarstan in Rimini and Tivat, Antalya (Orenburg Airlines, Moskovia, A Fly, VIM-Avia and Red Wings), Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh, Heraklion and Pula.
You can get to the airport by taxi or from the metro station "Park Kultury" by buses (No. 11 and 20) and route taxis (№ 29 and 46). From the train station you can directly reach by bus no.20.
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By train
Daily direct Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod trains departing from the Kursk and Kazan stations, the journey time is 5-7 hours. In addition, you can reach the following trains: Perm (Kama), Krasnoyarsk (Yenisei), Serova (Northern Urals), Vladivostok (Russia), Omsk (Irtysh), Kirov Vyatka ", Nizhny Tagil (" Malachite "), Barnaul, Kemerovo (" Kuzbass ").
From summer 2010 to Nizhny Novgorod from Moscow (en route 3 hours 55 minutes) and St. Petersburg fast trains run "Sapsan". They leave from the Kursk railway station, along the way they offer cold and hot drinks, there is a dining car (a hot dish is 200-300 rubles), as well as the possibility to book a taxi or hotels directly from the train. To get from the Moscow railway station to the other side of the river, where the Kremlin is located, it is possible for 300 rubles for a taxi or for 14 rubles for buses that depart from the opposite side of the exit from the station side of the square. On the road 10-15 minutes.
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The climate of Nizhny Novgorod is
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Transport in Nizhny Novgorod - $
In the role of urban transport are: buses (60 routes), route taxis (65 routes), trams (18 routes), trolleybuses (19 routes) and underground (2 lines, 17 km and 13 stations). Tariff for travel by bus 14 RUR, tram, trolley and metro 11 RUR, in fixed-route taxis - 10-15 RUR.
As the intracity transport also used electric trains and, very limited, the Children's Railway. Taxi in the city is, but it is quite expensive: from the station to the Kremlin about 300 rubles, from the River Station to the Kremlin - 150 rubles. The city is quite hilly, so you will have to use public transport often.
Restaurants and cuisine
In Novgorod, there are huge restaurants and cafes, most of which are located near the Kremlin - on Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street (analogous to the Moscow Arbat) .There are also pleasant beer bars ("The shelter of the tired tractor driver", "USSR"), and Japanese restaurants, typical European cafes (for example, Veranda) and excellent institutions with rich cuisine: Vitalich, where you can taste meat of a wild boar, moose or rabbit hair (ok .600-800 rubles); Czech "Djruzhkov mug" with unchanged veprevy knee and other .Also, quite a few good restaurants can be found under the Kremlin, on Rozhdestvenskaya Street, for example, "Pyatkin", where Russian traditional dishes are offered (quail, sterlet, lamb, hare, boar meat) and delicious local lentils from cranberries, cranberries in just 70 rubles (average account for two - ok .1700 rubles) .There you can sit in a typical American bar or the French bistro "Gavroche" .In a word, it's hard to stay hungry here .
Prices are indicated as of May 2011.
Entertainment, excursions and attractions of Nizhny Novgorod
Almost the entire historical center of Nizhny Novgorod, located in the upland part of the city, has preserved a significant number of historical civil buildings of the 18th and early 20th centuries, including numerous monuments of wooden architecture.
The main entrance to the Kremlin is the Dmitrovskaya Tower, which is located on the pedestrian street Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, which originates from the Minin and Pozharsky Square. This street is notable for 2-3-storey buildings of the beginning - the middle of the 20th century, a lot of cafes, museums, shops and restaurants.
Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
The Kremlin is one of the most perfect Russian medieval stone fortresses: deaf turrets in several tiers, impregnable walls with narrow slits of loopholes. Includes 13 towers: Dmitrievskaya, Powder, Georgievskaya, Borisoglebskaya, Zachatievskaya (both half-ruined), White, Clock, Ivanovo, North, Tainitskaya, Koromyslov, Nikolskaya and Kladova. You can inspect the Kremlin during a tour of the fortress wall (tickets are purchased in Dmitrievskaya Tower, in May 2011 a walk on the walls cost 35 rubles, a visit to the tower - another 35 rubles).
The Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Cathedral, built in the middle of the 16th century, is preserved on the territory of the Kremlin.
Nizhny Novgorod Fair
Today only one building has survived from the fair, everything else has been demolished and destroyed by the Soviet authorities. In general, the Nizhny Novgorod fair in its time (18-19 centuries) was one of the largest and most popular in all of Russia and the Volga region. Merchants from China, Mongolia, Scandinavia and, of course, from all over the Empire flocked here. Interesting facts from the history of these places can be read from Gilyarovsky. Near the fair is the cathedral of Alexander Nevsky.
Churches and temples
Remarkable medieval monasteries of Nizhny Novgorod - Pechersky (1328-1330) and Blagoveshchensky (13th century). The latter is located especially picturesque, on the slopes of the Djatlovy Mountains, on the banks of the Oka River. Excellent panorama opens from the opposite bank, where the Moscow railway station and the Nizhny Novgorod fair are located. The church of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Rozhdestvenskaya) (1719) and the Smolenskaya Church (1694-1697) in Gordeevka (modern Kanavinsky district) were built with the money of the Stroganov merchants in the Baroque style.
Other sights of Nizhny Novgorod: St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (17th c.), Assumption Church, dwelling houses (17th c.), Church of the Smolensk Mother of God (17th c.), Christmas Stroganov Church (18th c.), Spassky Staroyarmarichny Cathedral, Nevsky, the building of the Noble Assembly, the buildings of the State and Peasant Bank, the house of Sirotkin, the City Duma building (beginning of the 20th century).
Museums and theaters of Nizhny Novgorod
There are many museums and theaters in the city: the A ±$ museum .M .Gorky, which includes the Literary Museum; the scene of the autobiographical novel "Childhood" Kashirin's Lodge; museum-apartment, in which work was carried out on several works of the writer .The city is also home to the only museum in Russia N .A .Dobrolyubova in the former apartment house of the Dobrolyubov family, as well as a house museum in the outbuilding of the Dobrolyubov manor, where the criticism of childhood and adolescence was held; museum A .С .Pushkin; museum apartment A .D .Sakharov, Russian Museum of Photography and many others .
The museum of the architecture of the peoples of the Volga region, which is located on the territory of the Schelokovo farm, is also noteworthy. It is an ethnographic complex of wooden churches, houses and buildings of the 17th-19th centuries brought here from all over the region. The museum is located on Gorbatovsky Street 41, you can get there from Gorky Square by buses following Gagarin Avenue to the Med.institut stop or from the city center by bus number 28. Entrance tickets - 30-40 rubles, photo - 50 rubles ( for May 2011).
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