The apartment building in the Scherbinki district of Nizhny Novgorod where A. D. Sakharov lived in exile from 1980 to 1986.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

The novel was published in 1982, when A. D. Sakharov was in exile in Nizhny Novgorod.

As older centers such as Kiev and Vladimir never recovered from the devastation of the initial attack, the new cities of Moscow, Tver and Nizhny Novgorod began to compete for hegemony in the Mongol-dominated Russia.

Kuzma Minin appeals to the people of Nizhny Novgorod to raise a volunteer army against the Poles.

Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin.

** Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

The Moscow workers were supported by strikes and protest rallies by workers in Kiev, Kharkov, Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, and other cities.

* Nizhny Novgorod Metro – 1 line, 13 stations, 15. 3 km

The former Imperial Waiting Room at the main train station in Nizhny Novgorod

* June 12 – Kuzma Minin, merchant from Nizhny Novgorod

* Nizhny Novgorod City ( Russia ) is founded.

* Archbishop Joachim of Nizhny Novgorod: reportedly crucified upside down, on the Royal Doors of the Cathedral in Sevastopol, Russia in 1920

File: Coat of Arms of Balakhna ( Nizhny Novgorod oblast ) ( 1781 ). png | Arms of Balakhna, Russia

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An abandoned radiotelescope facility near Nizhny Novgorod.

A 1970s-or 80s-vintage GAZ-24 Volga, in the period squad car livery, installed as a monument in front of the Nizhny Novgorod Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety ( Russia ) | traffic police headquarters

In the 1910s the Kazan Tatars numbered about half a million in the Kazan Governorate in Tatarstan, their historical homeland, about 400, 000 in each of the governments of Ufa, 100, 000 in Samara and Simbirsk, and about 30, 000 in Vyatka, Saratov, Tambov, Penza, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm and Orenburg.

In 1870, his mother moved with her sons to Nizhny Novgorod, where he started the third class of the gymnasium.

Nizhny Novgorod (), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is the fifth largest city in Russia with a population of 1, 250, 615.

It is the economic and cultural center of the vast Volga-Vyatka economic region, and also the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and Volga Federal District.

Located at the confluence of two most important rivers of his principality, the Volga ( Mordvin " Rav " or " Rava "), and the Oka, and Obran Osh was renamed Nizhny Novgorod.

The major attempt made by Inäzor Purgaz from Arzamas in January 1229 was repulsed, but after the death of Yuri II on March 4, 1238 at the Battle of Sit River the Mongols occupied the fortress and the remnants of small Nizhny Novgorod settlement which surrendered without any resistance in order to preserve what had been developed since Purgaz's attack nine years earlier.

The nearest major city is Yakutsk, away via an unpaved road which is best used in the winter, especially since there is no bridge over the Lena River at Yakutsk ( the choices are: ferry from Nizhny Bestyakh in the summer, when the rest of the road may not be passable due to standing water, or over the ice in the dead of winter ).

In Nizhny Novgorod there is also a number of offshore outsourcing software developers, including Itseez, Tecom, Luximax Systems Ltd., MERA Networks, RealEast Networks, Auriga, SoftDrom, and Teleca, and many other smaller ones that specialize in delivering services to telecommunication vendors.

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary 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, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.

There used to be a Chkalov Street in Moscow ( part of Moscow's Garden Ring ), now renamed Zemlyanoy Val, there still exist its namesakes in Nizhny Novgorod and several other Russian cities.

While recovering from his wounds, Lenin instructed: " It is necessary-secretly and urgently to prepare the terror " Even before the assassinations, Lenin was sending telegrams " to introduce mass terror " in Nizhny Novgorod in response to a suspected civilian uprising there, and " crush " landowners in Penza who protested, sometimes violently, to requisition of their grain by military detachments: Conditions in these camps led to high mortality rates, and there were " repeated massacres.

The electric railroad branch from Nizhny Novgorod ends in Zavolzhye ; but there is a road connection over the hydro dam, which provides the only fixed crossing across the Volga between Nizhny Novgorod and Kineshma.

For example, in Gorky, there was a routed taxi line between Sormovo and the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin.

It connects Magadan and Yakutsk, Nizhny Bestyakh on the eastern bank of Lena River at Yakutsk, which itself lies on the western bank, as there is no bridge.

The largest individual radio telescope of any kind is the RATAN-600 located near Nizhny Arkhyz, Russia, which consists of a 576-meter circle of rectangular radio reflectors, each of which can be pointed towards a central conical receiver.

Shukhov tower on the Oka River | Shukhov towers built in Nizhny Novgorod suburbs near Dzerzhinsk in 1927 – 1929 ; one of them is still in place

Administratively, along with twelve rural localities, it is incorporated as the city of oblast significance of Nizhny Novgorod — an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

Municipally, the city of oblast significance of Nizhny Novgorod is incorporated as Nizhny Novgorod Urban Okrug.

Nizhny Novgorod is divided by the Oka River into two distinct parts.

Nizhny Novgorod is the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg.

Nizhny Novgorod is one of the centers of the IT Industry in Russia.

The engineering industry is the leading industry of Nizhny Novgorod economy.

Russian Railways department-Gorkovskaya Railroad, which operates some 5, 700 km of rail lines throughout the Middle Volga region ( of which some 1, 200 are in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ), is headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod.

Nizhny Novgorod is an important center of Volga cargo and passenger shipping.

The city is served by Russian highway M-7 ( Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan – Ufa ), and is a hub of the regional highway network.

Public transport within the city is provided by a small subway system-13 stations, currently building 14th ( Nizhny Novgorod Metro ), tramways, marshrutkas or minibuses, buses and trolleybuses.

The art gallery in Nizhny Novgorod is a large and important art gallery and museums of human history and culture.