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.

* In Nizhny Novgorod, there is a Sakharov Museum in the apartment on the first floor of the 12-storeyed house where the Sakharov family lived for seven years.

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

* link = European route E22 –: Holyhead – Chester – Warrington – Manchester – Leeds – Doncaster – Immingham … Amsterdam – Groningen – Bremen – Hamburg – Lübeck – Rostock – Sassnitz … Trelleborg – Malmö – Kalmar – Norrköping … Ventspils – Riga – Rēzekne – Velikiye Luki – Moscow – Vladimir – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan – Yelabuga – Perm – ( Asia ) – Yekaterinburg – Tyumen – Ishim

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.

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.

Pavlovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

Category: Buildings and structures in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Russian allotments ( dacha ), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

* Gorky Reservoir, on the Volga in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

One of many dacha co-ops surrounding Kstovo ( Nizhny Novgorod Oblast )

Category: Rivers of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

General view of Makaryev Monastery | Holy Trinity-Makaryev Monastery, on the Volga River in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

Vladimir Oblast borders with Moscow, Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Nizhny Novgorod Oblasts.

Kostroma Oblast borders Vologda Oblast ( N ), Kirov Oblast ( E ), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ( S ), Ivanovo Oblast ( W ), and Yaroslavl Oblast ( NW ).

Ivanovo Oblast borders with Kostroma Oblast ( N ), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ( E ), Vladimir Oblast ( S ), and Yaroslavl Oblast ( W ).

Vetluga (,, Vütla ) is a river in the Kirov Oblast, Kostroma Oblast, Mari El Republic and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast of Russia.

* Internal borders: Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ( SW / W / NW / N ), Kirov Oblast ( N / NE / E ), Republic of Tatarstan ( SE / S ), Chuvash Republic ( S )

Ryazan Oblast borders Vladimir Oblast ( N ), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ( NE ), the Republic of Mordovia ( E ), Penza Oblast ( SE ), Tambov Oblast ( S ), Lipetsk Oblast ( SW ), Tula Oblast ( W ), and Moscow Oblast ( NW ).

In 1903, N. Roerich together with his wife Helena Ivanovna Roerich toured through forty ancient Russian cities, including Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir, Suzdal, Yuriev-Polsky, Smolensk, Vilna, Izborsk, Pskov.

As many factions strove for power, the principality rapidly disintegrated into eleven tiny states: Moscow, Tver, Pereslavl, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Uglich, Belozersk, Kostroma, Nizhny Novgorod, Starodub-upon-Klyazma, and Yuriev-Polsky.

* The territory of the primary formation ( e. g. that consist of " Old " Russia of the 16th century before Eastern conquests by Ivan IV ) is fully or partially modern regions ( oblasts ): Vologda, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Novgorod, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Arkhangelsk.

Before the revolution, the production of valenki was concentrated in the Semenov district of Nizhny Novgorod province, in the Kineshma District of Kostroma province, and in the Kukmor in Kazan province.

Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev (, born 29 June 1947 in Susanino, Kostroma Oblast ) is the governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, since August 2005, when he replaced Gennady Khodyrev.