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THE CITY UP CLOSE

Nizhny Novgorod.

Discover the top attractions and places to visit in Nizhny Novgorod. Explore walking routes and listen to a self-guided audio tour with Tytory.

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Nativity ChurchAlexTref871 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo

Architecture

Nativity Church

Lift your eyes from the busy street to the white ornament on the red walls. The decoration is so dense that the church invites you to examine it like a carved object. This is the Stroganov Church, more commonly called the Nativity Church.

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Nizhny Novgorod State Art MuseumA.Savin · FAL · Photo

Culture

Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum

Within the Kremlin is a museum that reveals Nizhny Novgorod as a city of artists, collectors and audiences. This stop concerns the Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum and, specifically, its premises in the former Military Governor's House.

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Pechersky Ascension MonasteryA.Savin · FAL · Photo

History

Pechersky Ascension Monastery

The name Pechersky begins underground. It refers to the caves associated with the monastery's earliest community. Dionysius, who came here in the fourteenth century, is regarded as its founder. The surviving ensemble, however, is not on precisely the same site as that first settlement.

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Rukavishnikov EstateАлексей Трефилов · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo

Culture

Rukavishnikov Estate

This house seems determined to be more than another building on the embankment. Sculptures, balconies and elaborate ornament turn its façade into a performance. It is the estate of Sergei Rukavishnikov, a member of a prominent Nizhny Novgorod merchant family.

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