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Verhnevolzhskay embankment

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One of the favorite attractions in Nizhny Novgorod, this is an ideal itinerary for walking and cycling, for sports and photography. On the one hand it offers captivating river landscapes, on the other it demonstrated fancy merchant houses, such as the mansion of the ex-mayor Dmitry Sirotkin, a "palazzo-style" building of the merchant family Rukavishnikov and the mansion of the steamboat company owners Kamensky.

“Nizhny Novgorod ... there is a place: a proper boulevard on the high river bank, and below there is that river ... all around you see the vast Russian lands, a landscape of incomparable beauty ... So I see this picture, and I can smell the river . Neither Paris nor London could ever compare to that place for me”, said a Russian well-known opera singer Fyodor Shalyapin when describing Verkhne-Volzhskaya embankment area.

In 1834 Emperor Nicholas I, when visiting Nizhny Novgorod, came to see the embankment and was discontented with the site. The emperor simply could not admire the river views due to the noisome smell as the local people used to drain here all the household wastes. The houses themselves were also not such a pleasant view, all of them untidy wooden huts facing the city, with vegetable gardens at the river side. According to the local tale the Emperor noted that in Nizhny Novgorod nature does everything to adorn the city while its residents do their best to spoil the beauty. He ordered for this area beautification, for the old houses to be demolished, and for the new houses to be built in stone, with their facade to the river, to properly clean up the slope and to set up a public garden. By 1836 the royal instructions were performed, the embankment was paved and the construction of new stone houses started according to the projects of the best available architects. Alexandrovsky Garden was laid out.

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Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum

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Address: Kremlin, 6

Center for Contemporary Art "Arsenal"

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Address: Kremlin, 6

The Nizhny Novgorod State Exhibition Complex

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Address: st. Minina, 26

The State Order of Honor, A.M. Gorky

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Address: st. Minina, 26

Museum of History of OAO GAZ

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Address: Lenin Avenue, 95

The Yurkivka Gallery

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Adres: pl. Minina i Pozharskogo 2/2

Muzey istorii khudozhestvennykh promyslov Nizhegorodskoy oblasti

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Adres: ul. Bol'shaya Pokrovskaya, 43

Muzey arkhitektury i byta narodov Nizhegorodskogo Povolzhya

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Adres: Gorbatovskaya ulitsa, 41

Muzey nauki NNGU «Nizhegorodskaya radiolaboratoriya»

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Adres: Verkhne-Volzhskaya naberezhnaya, 5

Russian Museum of Photography

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Adres: ul. Piskunova, 9A

Museum of the book

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Adres: Varvarskaya, 3

Muzey «Istorii Nizhegorodskoy Yeparkhii»

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Adres: Privolzhskaya, 108-b

Otkrytaya ploshchadka «Parovozy Rossii»

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Adres:Gorokhovetskaya, 12,

Information Center for Nuclear Energy

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Adres: Semashko, 7B

Literary and Memorial Museum. ON. Dobrolyubova

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Address: embankment of the Lykovaya Dam, 2

Art-gallery "Kladovka"

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Address: st. Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, 8

Museum of New Years toys of the factory Ariel

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Art Gallery "Russian Age"

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Gallery Futuro

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Museum-apartment of A. D. Sakharov

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Adres: pr. Gagarina, 214

Museum and Exhibition Center "Mikula"

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Address: st. 50 Let Pobedy, 25

The exhibition hall "Pokrovka, 8"

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Address: Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, 8

Technical Museum

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Address: st. Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, 43

Museum of the history of trams and trolleybuses

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Address: st. General Ivliyev, 1

The Literary Museum

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Address: st. Minina, 26

Museum-apartment of AM. Gorky

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Address: st. Semashko, 19

Muzey detstva A. M. Gorkogo "Domik Kashirina"

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Adres: Pochtovyy s"yezd, 21

Gosudarstvennyy literaturno-memorialny muzey

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Adres: pl.Minina i Pozharskogo, d.5

Nizhegorodskiy Kreml, vystavochnyy zal «Dmitriyevskaya bashnya»

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Adres: pl. Minina i Pozharskogo, 6a

Usadba Rukavishnikovykh

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ul. Verkhne-Volzhskaya nab., 7

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Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum

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"Orlonok" cinema

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Aquapark "Atoll"

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One of biggest parks in town, 30 minutes drive from the city center.

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Chkalovskaya staircase

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Center for Contemporary Art "Arsenal"

On the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin there is a unique space for creativity and art, where various events take place. exhibitions, film screenings, master classes, lectures, concerts.

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La Cantinetta da Roberto

La Cantinetta da Roberto is a homey luminous proper Italian restaurant.

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