Historic center of Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod old town ; Historic center of Nizhny Novgorod
	Historic center of Nizhny Novgorod
	Historic center of Nizhny Novgorod
Coordinates	56 ° 19 ′ N , 44 ° 0 ′ E Coordinates: 56 ° 19 ′ N , 44 ° 0 ′ E
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coat of arms	flag
Basic data
Country	Russia
Oblast	Nizhny Novgorod
ISO 3166-2	RU-NIZ
city	Nizhny Novgorod
	Lower Posad and the Kremlin

The old town of Nizhny Novgorod is a built-up area of Nizhny Novgorod in the borders up to 1917. Here there is a large number of monuments of architecture, objects of natural monuments and historical districts.

Many different epochs and architectural styles mix in the old town ( Neo-Byzantine , Stroganov- Baroque , Empire , Art Nouveau ). Here or nearby are the medieval Kremlin , noble houses and Stalinist monumental houses .

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The old town lies on two hills: Kremlevsky and Ilyinsky. On the Kremlevsky Hill is the actual Kremlin, surrounded by the historical districts: the Upper and Lower Posad , the Roshdestvenskaya side, a complex of historical streets ( Bolshaya-Pokrovskaya and Varvarskaya), the Cave Monastery and Pochaina. On the Ilyinsky Hill is the area of Zapochainye, which begins on Ilinskaya Street and ends with the area of Lyadov.

The old Kanawino and the old Sormowo are also included in the old town, although these settlements were only incorporated after 1917. The old Kanawino includes the area of the fair , the Strelka (headland) and Gordejewka. There are many interesting architectural objects that make up the ensemble of this territory: the trade fair and the main exhibition building, the Moscow train station with the adjacent square and the Central Department Store, the Smolensk-Vladimir parish in Gordejewka and the Gordejewski department store, as well as many mansions from the 19th century. Century. On the occasion of the soccer world championship 2018 the territory of the old Kanawino will be reconstructed on a large scale.

Old Sormowo is the furthest from the old town. In the middle of this area, Stalinist buildings dominate with rare pre-revolutionary buildings: the Transfiguration Cathedral, the Barricade School, the Krasnoye Sormovo factory and other mansions from the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, Sormovo was the center of the Russian Revolution in 1905 , due to which many revolutionary monuments were erected here.