Day Trips
Makaryevo: A Volga Monastery Day Trip from Nizhny Novgorod
An Orthodox convent on the Volga River founded in the 15th century by the monk Macarius. Stone churches with golden domes sit…
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Diveevo: A Sacred Day Trip from Nizhny Novgorod
One of Russia's most important pilgrimage sites, the Holy Trinity Saint Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery is a working convent complex with stunning Orthodox architecture,…
Day Trips
Arzamas: A Day Trip to 19th-Century Merchant Russia
Founded in 1578 during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, Arzamas is a provincial town 110 km south of Nizhny Novgorod with…
Day Trips
Semenov, Nizhny Novgorod: A Day Trip to the Khokhloma Craft Capital
Semenov is a small historic town 70 km northeast of Nizhny Novgorod, famous worldwide as the centre of Khokhloma wood painting and…
Day Trips
Gorodets: Wooden Architecture and Crafts on the Volga
Gorodets is a true living open-air museum on the picturesque left bank of the Volga, founded in 1152. Famous today as the…
Day Trips
Bor: A Quieter Volga Crossing and Day Trip from Nizhny Novgorod
A satellite city on the left bank of the Volga, Bor rewards a half-day visit with riverside churches, a quirky military museum,…
Metro Stations
Komsomolskaya: Metro Station on Nizhny Novgorod’s Industrial Line
Komsomolskaya is a metro station on Line 1 of the Nizhny Novgorod Metro, which opened on 8 August 1987. Located in the…
Metro Stations
Proletarskaya: Nizhny Novgorod’s Original Metro Station
Proletarskaya is one of the original six stations that opened with Nizhny Novgorod Metro on November 20, 1985. It lies on Line…
Metro Stations
Chkalovskaya: Metro Station and Transit Hub in Nizhny Novgorod
Chkalovskaya is a station on the Avtozavodskaya line of Nizhny Novgorod Metro, which opened on 20 November 1985 as one of six…
Metro Stations
Kanavinskaya Metro Station: Second-Line Transit Hub in Nizhny Novgorod
Underground station on the Sormovsko-Meshcherskaya Line (Line 2) that opened in 1993 as part of the second phase of Nizhny Novgorod Metro,…
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