Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin - Road along the wall

Nizhny Novgorod ( NIZH-nee NOV-gə-rod; Russian: Нижний Новгород, IPA: [ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət] (listen)), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century is Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gorky (Горький) (1932–1990), is the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District.

The Dmitrievskaya Tower (Russian: Дмитриевская башня, tr. Dmitrievskaya Bashnya) is the main tower on the southern wall of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin which overlooks the Minin and Pozharsky Square. The tower named after a powerful Prince of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod Dmitry of Suzdal. Another version claims that the name gave a church which was sanctified of the name of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki.

Aleksandr Suvorov (Russian: Александр Суворов) is a Valerian Kuybyshev-class (92-016, OL400) Soviet/Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga–Don basin. On 5 June 1983 Aleksandr Suvorov crashed into a girder of the Ulyanovsk railway bridge. The catastrophe led to 176 deaths yet the ship stayed afloat, was restored and still navigates.

The Church of St. John the Baptist is one of the oldest Orthodox churches in Nizhny Novgorod, mentioned from the 15th century. The stone church was consecrated in 1683, again on November 4, 2005. The nearest Ivanovskaya tower of the Kremlin was named after this temple. The church is located on the National Unity Square, Rozhdestvenskaya Street.

Museum-reserve of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin "Boldino" is a large Russian literary Museum, located in the complex of buildings of the family estate of Pushkin in the village of Bolshoe Boldino of the Nizhny Novgorod region, which is associated with one of the most fruitful periods of the poet's work," boldinskaya autumn" (September–November 1830).

The Nizhny Novgorod Governorate (Pre-reformed Russian: Нижегородская губернія, tr. Nizhegorodskaya guberniya, IPA: [nʲɪʐɨɡɐˈrotskəjə ɡʊˈbʲernʲɪjə]), was an administrative division (a guberniya) of the Russian Empire, Russian Republic, and the Russian SFSR, roughly corresponding to the Upper and Middle Volga region and what is now most of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

The Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin (Russian: Нижегородский кремль, tr. Nizhegorodskiy Kreml') is a fortress in Nizhny Novgorod, the historic city center.