Editing Nizhny Novgorod (section)

==Main sights==
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Much of the [[Historic centre of Nizhny Novgorod|central city]] is built in the [[Russian Revival]] and [[Stalin Empire style]]s. The dominating feature of the city skyline is the grand [[Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin|Kremlin]] (1500–1511), with its red-brick towers. After Bolshevik devastation, the only ancient edifice left within the Kremlin walls is the tent-like Archangel Cathedral (1624–1631), first built in stone in the 13th century.

{{Wide image|Nizhny Novgorod banner.jpg|1600px|The [[Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin]]}}

There are more than 600 unique historic, architectural and cultural monuments in the city. There are about 200 municipal and regional art and cultural institutions within Nizhny Novgorod. Among these institutions, there are eight theatres, five concert halls, 97 libraries (with branches), 17 cinemas (including five for children), 25 institutions of children's optional education, eight museums (16 including branches), and seven parks.

===The Fair===
[[File:NN the Fair 01-11-2021 02.jpg|thumb|The Main Fair Building]]

The centre of the fair was the main building in the spirit of classicism and the side administrative buildings that formed the central square. To protect from floods, a {{cvt|3.5|m|0}} high dam was built. On 4 November 2017, a new multimedia exhibition called “Russia is My History” was opened in the Main Fair Building. The main focus of the exhibition is the [[history of Nizhny Novgorod]], starting from [[Finnic peoples]]. On the territory of the complex there are departments in which they tell about the foundation of the city, the struggle for independence in the [[Time of Troubles]] and the [[Bombing of Gorky in World War II|bombing of the city]] during the [[World War II]].

===Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street===
 [[File:Вид на улицу Большую Покровскую вечером.jpg|thumb|Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street.]]

The main street of Nizhny Novgorod, located in the city center. Most part of it is pedestrian. There are many architectural monuments and various street sculptures.

===Nizhny Novgorod art gallery===
[[File:NN Kremlin 08-2016 img9.jpg|thumb|The State art gallery]]

The [[art gallery]] in Nizhny Novgorod is a large and important art gallery and [[museum]]s of human [[history]] and  [[culture]].

Nizhny Novgorod has a significant art gallery with more than 12,000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as [[Viktor Vasnetsov]], [[Karl Briullov]], [[Ivan Shishkin]], [[Ivan Kramskoi]], [[Ilya Yefimovich Repin]], [[Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan]], [[Vasily Surikov]] and [[Ivan Aivazovsky]].  There are also greater collections of works by [[Boris Kustodiev]] and [[Nicholas Roerich]], as well as [[Western Europe]]an art including works by [[David Teniers the Younger]], [[Bernardo Bellotto]], [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]], [[Pieter de Grebber]], [[Giuseppe Maria Crespi]] and [[Giovanni Battista Piranesi]].

The gallery also includes a collection of [[Russian avant-garde]] works including those by [[Kazimir Malevich]], [[Wassily Kandinsky]], [[Natalia Goncharova]] and [[Mikhail Larionov]]. There is also a collection of [[East Asian]] art.

===Houses of worship===
[[File:NN Pechersky Monastery 08-2016.jpg|thumb|[[Pechersky Ascension Monastery]]]]
[[File:NN AlexanderNevsky Cathedral 08-2016.jpg|thumb|[[Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod|Alexander Nevsky Cathedral]] (New Fair Cathedral)]]

Other notable landmarks are the two great medieval [[abbey]]s. The [[Pechersky Ascension Monastery]] features the austere five-domed cathedral (1632) and two rare churches surmounted by tent roofs, dating from the 1640s. The Annunciation monastery, likewise surrounded by strong walls, has another five-domed cathedral (1649) and the Assumption church (1678). The only private house preserved from that epoch formerly belonged to the merchant Pushnikov.

There can be little doubt that the most original and delightful churches in the city were built by the [[Stroganovs]] in the nascent [[Naryshkin Baroque|Baroque style]]. Of these, the Virgin's Nativity Church<ref>{{Cite web |title=Нижний Новгород-Церковь Собора Пресвятой Богородицы ("Строгановская") |trans-title=Nizhny Novgorod-Church of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary ("Stroganov") |website=www.sobory.ru |access-date=14 January 2021 |url=http://www.sobory.ru/article/index.html?object=00892 |archive-date=March 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311024654/http://www.sobory.ru/article/index.html?object=00892 |url-status=live }}</ref> (1719) graces one of the central streets, whereas the Church of Our Lady of Smolensk<ref>{{Cite web |title=Нижний Новгород. Церковь Смоленской иконы Божией Матери, фотография |trans-title=Nizhny Novgorod. Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, photograph |website=www.sobory.ru |url=http://www.sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=5119 |access-date=August 4, 2006 |archive-date=March 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311024649/http://www.sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=5119 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (1694–97) survives in the former village of Gordeyevka (now, part of the city's Kanavinsky District), where the Stroganov palace once stood.

Other notable churches include:
* the [[Nizhny Novgorod Fair#Transfiguration Cathedral|Transfiguration Cathedral]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Нижний Новгород-Собор Происхождения Честных Древ Креста Господня (Спасский Староярмарочный) |trans-title=Nizhny Novgorod-Cathedral of the Origin of the Honorable Trees of the Holy Cross (Spassky Old Fair) |website=www.sobory.ru |access-date=14 January 2021 |url=http://www.sobory.ru/article/index.html?object=00895 |archive-date=March 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311024553/http://www.sobory.ru/article/index.html?object=00895 |url-status=live }}</ref> also known as the Old Fair Cathedral, a huge domed edifice built at the site of the great fair to an [[Empire style]] design by [[Agustín de Betancourt]] and [[Auguste de Montferrand]] in 1822;
* the [[Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod|Alexander Nevsky Cathedral]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Нижний Новгород-Кафедральный собор Александра Невского ("Новоярмарочный") |trans-title=Nizhny Novgorod-Alexander Nevsky Cathedral ("New Fair") |website=www.sobory.ru |url=http://www.sobory.ru/article/index.html?object=01787 |access-date=14 January 2021 |archive-date=March 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311001746/http://www.sobory.ru/article/index.html?object=01787 |url-status=live }}</ref> designed in the Russian Revival style and constructed between 1856 and 1880 at the [[Spit of Nizhny Novgorod]] (the confluence of the Oka and the Volga). It is the third-tallest Cathedral in Russia;
* the [[Stroganov Church|Church of the Nativity]]. One of the most beautiful churches in the city. Was built 1696–1719 on the means of the merchant [[Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov|Grigory Stroganov]]. It is one of the best examples of Stroganov style. Church located at the [[Rozhdestvenskaya Street]].
* the recently reconstructed [[Church of St. John the Baptist (Nizhny Novgorod)|Church of the Nativity of John the Precursor]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Нижний Новгород. Церковь Рождества Иоанна Предтечи на Торгу, фотография |trans-title=Nizhny Novgorod. Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist at the Auction, photograph |website=www.sobory.ru |url=http://www.sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=10051 |access-date=August 4, 2006 |archive-date=March 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311024634/http://www.sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=10051 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (1676–83), standing just below the Kremlin walls; it was used during the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet period]] as an apartment house;
* the parish churches of the Holy Wives<ref>{{Cite web|title=Нижний Новгород. Церковь Жён-Мироносиц на Верхнем посаде, фотография|trans-title=Nizhny Novgorod. Church of the Myrrh-Bearing Women in Upper Posad, photograph|website=www.sobory.ru|url=http://www.sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=5523|access-date=August 4, 2006|archive-date=October 31, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031024330/http://sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=5523|url-status=dead}}</ref> (1649) and of Saint Elijah<ref>{{Cite web |title=Нижний Новгород. Церковь Илии Пророка, фотография |trans-title=Nizhny Novgorod. Church of Elijah the Prophet, photograph |website=www.sobory.ru |url=http://www.sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=9535 |access-date=August 4, 2006 |archive-date=March 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311024604/http://www.sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=9535 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (1656);
* the Assumption Church on St Elijah's Hill<ref>{{Cite web |title=Нижний Новгород. Церковь Успения Пресвятой Богородицы на Ильинской горе, фотография |trans-title=Nizhny Novgorod. Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Ilinskaya Hill, photograph |website=www.sobory.ru |url=http://www.sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=9550 |access-date=August 4, 2006 |archive-date=March 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311024541/http://www.sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=9550 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (1672), with five green-tiled domes arranged unorthodoxly on the lofty cross-shaped barrel roof;
* the shrine of the [[Old Believers]] at the Bugrovskoe cemetery,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Нижний Новгород. Церковь Успения Пресвятой Богородицы на новом Бугровском кладбище, фотография |trans-title=Nizhny Novgorod. Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the new Bugrovsky cemetery, photograph |website=www.sobory.ru |url=http://www.sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=5248 |access-date=August 4, 2006 |archive-date=October 31, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031022513/http://sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=5248 |url-status=dead }}</ref> erected in the 1910s to a critically acclaimed design by Vladimir Pokrovsky;
* the wooden chapel of the Intercession<ref>{{Cite web |title=Нижний Новгород. Музей-заповедник "Щёлоковский хутор". Церковь Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы из с. Зелёного Городецкого района, фотография |trans-title=Nizhny Novgorod. Museum-reserve "Shchelokovsky farm". Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin from the village. Zeleny Gorodetsky district, photograph |website=www.sobory.ru |url=http://www.sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=5253|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031022518/http://sobory.ru/photo/index.html?photo=5253|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 31, 2007}}</ref> (1660), transported to Nizhny Novgorod from a rural area.

The centrally located [[Jewish community of Nizhny Novgorod|Nizhny Novgorod Synagogue]] was built in 1881–1883; disused during the Soviet era, it was renovated and reopened circa 1991.

===Chkalov Stairs===
The [[Chkalov Stairs|Chkalov Staircase]] connects [[Minin and Pozharsky Square]], the Upper Volga, and the Lower Volga embankments. It was built by the architects Alexander Yakovlev, Lev Rudnev, and Vladimir Munts. The staircase itself was constructed in the late 1940s by [[German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union|German prisoners]] of war forced to labour around Gorky. It is the longest staircase in [[Russia]]. The staircase starts from the monument to [[Valery Chkalov|Chkalov]], near St. George's Tower of the [[Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin|Kremlin]]. It is built in the form of a figure of eight and consists of 560 steps if you count it on both sides. The number of steps from the bottom to the top is 442 on the right. In the intersections of the side slopes there are two observation platforms. At the bottom of the stairs is a monument to the Hero boat, which is located at the Lower Volga embankment.

===Nizhny Novgorod Stadium===
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Standing on a spit of the Volga and Oka Rivers in the city centre is the international-class Nizhny Novgorod Stadium. This arena hosted six games of the [[2018 FIFA World Cup]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-11-30 |title=World Cup 2018: A guide to the grounds hosting games in Russia |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41586162 |access-date=2025-03-13 |work=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}}</ref> After the World Cup, the stadium serves as a multipurpose sports complex.

===Other===
A singular monument of industrial architecture is a {{cvt|128|m}} [[Shukhov tower on the Oka River|open-work hyperboloid tower]] built on the bank of the Oka near [[Dzerzhinsk, Russia|Dzerzhinsk]] as part of a [[Electric power transmission|powerline]] river crossing by the eminent engineer and scientist [[Vladimir Shukhov]] in 1929.

There are also architectural buildings:

* [[Neustroevs-Bashkirov manor house]]

===Gallery===

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File:Нижегородское отделение Государственного банка на Большой Покровской.jpg|Nizhny Novgorod State bank.

File:Вид на Нижегородский кремль с высоты.jpg|View of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

File:Верхне-Волжская набережная 2024.jpg|Verkhnevolzhskaya embankment.

File:Чкаловская лестница. Вид со стороны Нижне-Волжской набережной.jpg|Chkalov Stairs.

File:Вид на набережную Федоровского и Парк 800-летия Нижнего Новгорода вечером. Световая инсталляция включает более 1 000 элементов.jpg|Fedorovsky embankment.

File:Пакгаузы на Стрелке.jpg|Warehouses on the Strelka (Spit) of Nizhny Novgorod.

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