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.

Nizhny Novgorod Strigino Airport has direct flights to major Russian cities, as well as to Frankfurt ( five flights a week by Lufthansa ), Dubai, Prague.

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.

Russia became the host nation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and it has been decided that some matches will be played in Nizhny Novgorod in a stadium yet to be built.

The city has registered a brand The Third Capital of Russia, though a number of other major Russian cities compete for this status, like Samara, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod, all being major cultural centers with rich history and prominent architecture.

The princely house of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod, which has been known since the fourteenth century as the House of Shuisky, descends from Andrey II of Vladimir.

NLN has offices in Germany ; Switzerland ; Kinshasa, Congo ; Warsaw, Poland ; Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Benin, Mali, Togo, Cameroon and Kathmandu, Nepal.

Besides sharing the Nizhny Novgorod Hydroelectric Station with Zavolzhye, Gorodets has a shipbuilding industry.

The settlement has one bar and a restaurant located on Nizhny Arkhangelsky.

On the first day of Russian Defence Expo 2010 in Nizhny Tagil, The Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation, Konstantin Biryulin, announced to the press that the Russian state monopoly Federal Service for Defense Contracts was unveiling the prototype of new battle tank called " Object 195 " ( T-95 ) in a private showing to selected VIP guests, though the tank has yet to be seen by journalists or confirmed publicly by any of the participants.

Nizhny Tagil has a wide network of 28 libraries servicing 75, 000 readers every year.

Nizhny Tagil has been repeatedly chosen to host international Urals ' Industrial Heritage conferences and workshops.

Nizhny Tagil theatrical life is represented by three professional theaters: the National D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak Academic Drama Theater, a puppet theater, community theaters, and the actor department of Nizhny Tagil College of Arts, which has been training actors and actresses for Nizhny Tagil and oblast scenes for two years.

Nizhny Tagil has been connected to the following personalities:

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.

However, working with Betancourt, he also designed buildings in Moscow, Odessa, and Nizhny Novgorod.

Formerly, Saransk was also served by two daily Penza – Nizhny Novgorod passenger trains, carrying passengers from nearby villages mainly to either Ruzayevka junction station and Penza or to Arzamas and Nizhny Novgorod.

Located on the Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod rail line — one of Russia's oldest railroads and one of the alternative routes of the Trans-Siberian Railway — Kovrov is also connected to Murom ( which is served by the Moscow – Kazan rail line ) by the Murom Railway.

He also released from prison his cousin, Prince Andrey Mikhailovich, who had governed Yugoria and Nizhny Novgorod during Vasily III's reign before having been incarcerated on charges of high treason.

Gorodets was founded in 1152 by Prince Yury Dolgoruky ( also the founder of Moscow ) as a large fortress on the Volga River, the first Russian fortress in today's Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

There are also major machinery plants producing freight wagons ( Nizhny Tagil ), cars and motorcycles ( Izhevsk, Ural Automotive Plant in Miass ), tractors ( Chelyabinsk and Orsk ), machine-tools ( in Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Alapaevsk, etc .).

Developed is also production of Coke ( fuel ), rubber, paint, synthetic fibers and yarns, plastics and resins ( Sverdlovsk, Nizhny Tagil, etc.

Nizhny Tagil is also home to the Nizhny Tagil Technological Institute ( Нижнетагильский Технологический Институт ) located to the south-east of the city center.

A senior descendant of Vsevolod the Big Nest and also of Alexander Nevsky ( Dmitry was great-great-grandson of Nevsky's third son Andrey ), he inherited Suzdal in 1359 and Nizhny Novgorod in 1365.

Uzola River, also spelled as Usola River ( Узола, Усола in Russian ) is a river in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia.

He was also laureate of the International Brass Competition of Nizhny Novgorod in Russia.

Despite the introduction of the T-62, in 1969 their T-64 tank was rearmed with a new tank gun, while in 1972 Nizhny Tagil began production of the T-72 tank, also armed with the gun.

At Nizhny Bestyakh it connects to the Lena Highway, also designated M56.