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Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: Ни́жний Но́вгород) is the capital of homonymous oblast as well as the Russian Federal District Volga. Around 1.25 million people live here in the surrounding area.
You are in the same time zone as Moscow, i.e. CET 2 hours.
background
(Nizhny Novgorod should not coincide with the city south-southeast of Leningrad Novgorod be confused. For a better differentiation one speaks of that place since 2000 as Veliky Novgorod.)
Nizhny Novgorod was one of the venues for the Football World Cup 2018. The city lies at the confluence of the Oka River into the Volga. During the era of the Soviet Union, the city got the name Gorky. In the 1930s Gorky received the status of a "closed city", which until 1991 could not be visited by foreigners. The system critic Andrei Sakharov was banished here from 1980-86.
On the left bank of the Oka, south of the Volga, is the main train station with the districts of Moscow Rayon and Lenin Rayon (Ленинский район). Here are those too Sokol aircraft factory, Manufacturer of the MiGs. From the company's own airfield in Sormowo, civilians can also fly in combat aircraft.
On the right bank of the Oka, in the Nizhegorodsky Rayon (Нижегородский район), is the old city with the Kremlin.
- Suburbs
North of the Volga lies boron (Бор), an industrial suburb with 78,000 inhabitants.
Thirty kilometers to the southeast is Kstowo (Кстово) dominated by the Novogorkovsky oil refinery.
getting there
By plane
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The airport is about 15 km southwest of the city, it is also by the name Strigino known. There are mainly domestic Russian flights. Many of the international connections offered are seasonal charters.In the small terminal, which was new in 2015, arrivals and departures are on the ground floor. Most of the shops and restaurants are on the upper level. When you have entered the terminal through the security gate, the luggage storage is on the left. You look directly at the check-in counters. You can register your firearms at the counter behind the right end of the check-in. In the “Business Aviation” VIP lounge, travelers are charged at a price of 14500-18000 R. p.P. individually supervised and brought to the plane by limousine.
By train
The 2 Moscow train station is located on the Trans-Siberian Railway. There are direct connections to, among others Moscow-Kursk train station (437 km), Ufa, Ekaterinburg and Vladivostok. The advance booking counter is not in the lavishly renovated main building, but approx. 50 m to the right. Regional trains leave from the rear part (Пригородный вокзал), there is also a separate counter and a separate entrance for this.
You are also connected to Moscow by high-speed trains Sapsan and Strizh, which take 3½-4 hours (10-16 journeys daily). Ordinary trains are on the way for 7 hours. A pair of high-speed trains runs up to in 8½ hours St. Petersburg, while normal trains take 14 hours to get there.
By bus
- Avtovoksal (a little south of the old town). Mainly lines to the east or south.
- 3 Kanawinski long-distance bus station (ТПУ Канавинский автовокзал) (at the main station, regional train side).
- Long-distance bus lines that only pass through often let their passengers get off at Revolutionsplatz, also not far from the main train station.
In the street
Nizhny Novgorod is on the M7, the Moscow (420 km) and Kazan (400 km) connects.
The R159 goes over the Volga in a north-easterly direction to Jaransk (Яранск; 363 km) and then on to Kirov (578 km).
A main road goes to the south Arsamas.
By boat
Many of the Volga cruises offered in summer dock in the city for a day.
mobility
The central traffic junction for urban transport is at the "Moscow Railway Station" (Moskovsky, Central Station). The metro has at the 4 Moskovskaya crossing station at the main station. Connection to the 5 Train (Elektritschka). This is also where eight lines of the Nizhny Novgorod tram end, which connect the old town on the eastern bank of the Oka and the southern and western parts of the city away from the underground line.
The price per single journey in 2021 will be uniform for the metro, bus and tram 28 R, regardless of the route. There are also rechargeable prepaid cards (50 R cards), in which case the single journey is reduced to 20 R.
Driving is in the morning from shortly after 5 to around midnight. However, many bus routes stop operating around 9 p.m.
Subway
The expansion of the metro has only progressed slowly since it opened in 1986. Three more stops are to be opened for 2024/25. Lines are in operation in 2021:
- (red) 6 Gorkovskaya
(Горьковская) ↔ Moskovskaya ↔ 7 Park Kultury (Парк культуры) - (blue) 8 Burewestnik (Буревестник) ↔ Moskovskaya ↔ 9 Strelka (Стрелка)
The planned line 3 on the eastern bank of the Volga is to run between Kremlevskaya ↔ Novinki.
For single trips you buy the metal tokens that are common in the Soviet Union and are thrown into the barrier at the entrance.
Train
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The Elektritschka called 10 Train runs on three lines and serves 26 stops. During rush hour, the frequency is 15 minutes.
Tram and bus
The tram 2 ring line goes to most of the city center's tourist attractions.
Cable car
Since 2012 there is a 3.7 km long cable car spanning the Volga. Which is a terminus near the mosque 11 Volga cable car the other Borskaya, the single journey costs 100 R. (10-ticket 820 R.; 2021). Operating time is Mon.-Fri. 6.45-21.00 (Monday and Thursday with a long lunch break), on weekends 9.00-22.00. Operation is stopped at temperatures below -30 ° C.
ferry
Boats go up the Oka from the 12 River station (Речной вокзал; daily 7 am-7pm) not far from the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary 13 Yushnaya investor (Южная; Bus A40, A63, A69, A85).
The ferry across the Volga has lost its importance since the cable car opened. But it also transports cars. She is wrong 14 Ul. Georgiyevskiy, 5 to 15 Ferry crossing (Паромная Переправа).
Tourist Attractions
Kremlin
- 1 Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin (Нижегородский Кремль).
The citadel, built from 1500 onwards, is similar to those built at the same time in Kolomna or Tula. The massive brick walls, up to twelve meters high, with 13 watchtowers have been restored largely true to the original. The governor still has his official seat here today. The Savior Transfiguration Cathedral was demolished in the 1920s.
In the area of the festivals are:
- the philharmonic
- the historic church square
- Archangel Michael Cathedral, first construction 1221-7, today's consecrated 1732
- the governor's house with art museum
- a war memorial with an eternal flame
- the minin-and-Poscharsky-Obelisk, also the national hero Kuzma Minin commemorating whose tomb is today in the Cathedral of the Savior Transfiguration.
- Remains of the first settlement from the 13th century were found among the remains of the destroyed St. Simeon Stylites Church in autumn 2018. Exhibits are displayed after building a replica of the church.
Trade fair city
- 2 Nizhny Novgorod Fair (Нижегородская ярмарка).The Nizhny Novgorod Fair is a large exhibition and business center in Russia. In the 19th century the fair served as the main trading center of the Russian Empire. In 1896, the All-Russian Industrial and Crafts Exhibition took place here, at which the hyperbolic tower by Vladimir Zhukov was presented and the first Russian tram network was put into operation.
In the area of the festivals are:
- Main building of the fair
- Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
- Transfiguration Cathedral
- Business center
- Exhibition pavilions from 1896
- Warehouses of the exhibition of 1896
Volga promenade
If you descend from the Kremlin through the Governor's Park, past the square "Conceptual Tower," which houses a local museum, you come to the promenade (parallel to the Peter I monument) Grebnoj canal). If you turn right here, you can take a pleasant walk of almost five kilometers (but there is also bus A5). You pass by:
- Boat Geroj, a small steamer placed on a pedestal
- the statue of a deer, the city's heraldic animal
- 3 City Museum of Technology and Defense Industry in Siegespark with the obligatory T-34 tank (and a few more)
- the recreational area of the Pecherskie Sand Island (Остров Печерские Пески) can be reached both by ferry and on foot across a land bridge
Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street
The central Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street (formerly Sverdlov Street) was redesigned as a pedestrian zone in 2004. You can reach them via Metro 1 Gorkovskaya or tram 2.
Here are:
- numerous merchant and bourgeois houses in the Russian style typical of the late 19th century
- Gorky Square with its monument and park
- No. 26: 4 Building of the Tsarist State Bank
- No. 43: Museum for Regional Art History, a new building
- at No. 57: (relief) monument to Lenin and the Novgorod Marxists
- the magnificent building of the Gorky Theater, opened in 1896, plus the Theater Square (Театральной площади) with monuments and interesting architecture
If you turn left from the Kremlin on the bank, along the Oka, you will get a taste for this older part of the city, especially as a lover of Orthodox churches, as there are:
- the white church of 5 John the Baptist, with the Minin and Pozharsky monument next to it.
- 6 Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin (Рождественская церковь).also known as Stroganoff Church.
- 7 Alexander Spring with associated chapel
- 8 Church of Sergius of Radonezh (Церковь Сергия Радонежского) . In the immediate vicinity are the Church of St. Andrew, the Alexius Chapel, the Assumption Church in the Annunciation Monastery (Церковь Успения Пресвятой Богородицы в Благовещенском Моенастыром Моенастыром).
Under the Metromost (Subway bridge, also for cars) you can stroll a good 1500 meters further to the Molitowski Bridge or go back up through an extensive park into the city. On Ulitsa Pokhvalinskiy and further on Malaya Pokrovskaya one comes to the Dynamo Stadium on the left or the 9 Gorky Square on the right.
Museums
- Moscow Rayon
- 10 Railway Museum (Паровозы России) (A good 200 m to the left of the exit of the Sortirowochnyj train station).Several Soviet-era steam locomotives on an open-air site.Open: Mon.-Fri. 9.00-18.00.
- 11 Historical Museum of the Moskovsky District, Ul. 50 Let Pobedy, 25. A rather curious, but lovingly assembled collection with a lot that could be sold under arts and crafts. You don't have to go there, but it would be worth a quick look when you are in the area.Open: 10.00-18.00.
- 12 House museum of the Sokol aircraft factory, Ul. Chaadayeva, 1 (Bus (stop Sokol, Сокол) A12, A45, A65). MiGs and such.Open: Mon.-Fri. 8.00-16.45.
Churches
- 13 Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (Александро-Невский Новоярмарочный собор)
- 14 Church of the Assumption of Our Lady (Успенская церковь на Ильинской горе)
Parks
- 15 Botanical Garden (ННГУ им. Н. И. Lobachevsky), Ul. Botanicheskiy Sad, 1 (Bus (Polyarna STr., Ул. Полярная stop) A62, A63, A80, Marshrutki T31, T82). The extensive arboretum with its oak park, which is managed by the university, is designated as a nature reserve.Open: Mon.-Fri. 8.00-17.00.
activities
- 2 Nizhny Novgorod Stadium (Стадион Нижний Новгород).The stadium was rebuilt for the 2018 World Cup and can seat around 45,000 spectators.
- 16 Gorky Children's Railway (Горьковская детская железная дорога имени М. Горького).This worth seeing Pioneer railway opened in 1939. It is a listed building. There are three stations: Pushkino (Пушкино), Stschastlivaya (Счастливая, "the lucky one") and Rodina (Родина, "fatherland." Railway enthusiasts will be delighted with the old locomotives used.Open: June-August.
shop
The central department store, which was built during the Soviet era and has since been renovated Tsum (ЦУМ) forms the core of the shopping area around the forecourt of the main train station. In this quarter is that too 1 Central market (Центральный рынок).
kitchen
nightlife
accommodation
- Bahnhofsviertel
- 1 Hostel Kanavinsky (Хостел Канавинский), Ul. Ivana Romanova, 2. Tel.: 7 950 613-30-10. Price: Dormitory 380-430 R., Single 990-1290 R.
- 2 Hotel Solar, Ul. Zaprudnaya, 2. Price: middle class.
- Nikitin (Никитин), Strelka St, 13 (between Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the new stadium). Tel.: 78312652265. Price: upscale, from 3900 R.
- Old town
- 5 Ostroshsky Wal (Острожский Вал), Minina St., 12. Tel.: 78314320861. 30 rooms.Price: 3300-3500 R./24 hours
health
Practical advice
trips
Dzerzhinsk
The city, founded in 1920 as Rastjapino (Растя́пино), was renamed Dzerzhinsk in 1929 (Дзержи́нск). It is known to older people because of the prisoner-of-war camp 469 located here. For a long time it was a center for the manufacture of Soviet chemical weapons. Production has permanently contaminated the environment and drinking water with arsenic compounds and dioxins. The place was nominated in 2006 as one of the most heavily contaminated places in the world, which was extended in 2007 and 2013, as renovations hardly take place. (It makes sense that Dzerzhinsk has been the twin city of Bitterfeld.)
If you want to do it yourself, you can travel by regional train from Nizhni Novgorod, 42 km away.
The unusual, listed 16 Zhukov-Oka power pole, a 128 m high hyperboloid construction on the river bank near Dzerzhinsk, which was decommissioned in 1988. In a similar form, two were first built in 1929. One of them was destroyed by criminals in 2005 and sold as junk. Colorfully illuminated at night.
literature
- Nusser, Horst G. W .; Nizhni Novgorod, a Russian city as an architecture museum: From the Renaissance to Art Nouveau. An undamaged structure; Munich 2016; ISBN 9783861204343
Web links
- https://admgor.nnov.ru/ (ru) - Official website of Nizhny Novgorod
