What you can see in Nizhny Novgorod for 1-2-3 of the day

Nizhny Novgorod is a great place to go for a few days to walk along the embankments, enjoy beautiful views of merge of two rivers, walk through museums and the Kremlin, ride on cable car. For a cursory inspection enough for a couple of days, that is weekends.

Despite the fact that you can get from Moscow almost in 3 hours, still better to go overnight, so as not to arrange on the spot race and take a walk at a relaxed pace. I have a separate post – A selection of cheap hotels in Nizhny Novgorod, just for that case.

The content of the article

• 1 Author guided tours
• 2 What to see in Nizhny Novgorod
  • 2.1 Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street
  • 2.2 Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
  • 2.3 Limpopo Zoo
  • 2.4 Chkalovskaya stairs
  • 2.5 Monument to Valery Chkalov
  • 2.6 Embankment Fedorovsky
  • 2.7 Verkhnevolzhskaya embankment
  • 2.8 Cable car
  • 2.9 Pechersky Ascension Monastery
  • 2.10 Exhibition of paintings by artist A. Yurkov
  • 2.11 Quark Museum of Entertaining Sciences
  • 2.12 Museum “Locomotives of Russia”
  • 2.13 Museum of Architecture and Life of the peoples of the Volga region
  • 2.14 Museum of the History of Art Crafts Nizhny Novgorod areas
  • 2.15 Technical Museum
  • 2.16 Russian Museum of Photography
  • 2.17 Electric vitamins
• 3 Map of Attractions

Author’s excursions

For those who want to save time preparing for the trip and to dive more fully into the atmosphere and history of the city, I would recommended to use the services of a private guide in the Lower Novgorod. In my opinion, individual tours are much more interesting organized tours with their large number of people and hackneyed program. Especially with a private guide you can always agree on a convenient time and day for you.

Look below, selected author’s excursions, perhaps you something like it. First of all, pay attention to the tour “Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin and other brands.”

Excursions in Nizhny Novgorod →

What to see in Nizhny Novgorod

Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street

This pedestrian street in the city center can be called “Nizhny Novgorod Arbat”. There are many historic houses, cafes, street musicians, souvenir shops and expensive boutiques. Antique the buildings are interspersed with small sculptures. For example, a cat and bronze pigeons, shoeshine and policeman. This street is in almost every major European city: many artists musicians, artisans, souvenir trays. Carried by air music and the subtle smells of food, a motley crowd of people and Architecture creates a sense of celebration and euphoria.

Pedestrian street in Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

Entrance fee: from 130 rubles, excursions from 300 rub

From the walls of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin offers a great view of the Volga and Strelka (the confluence of the Oka and the Volga). Walls and five towers Kremlin can walk. The area of the Kremlin more than 22 hectares, the territory clean and well groomed, planted with flowers. Here you can see a collection of military equipment from the Second World War. More about the Kremlin.

Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

Limpopo Zoo

Entrance fee: 400 rubles

One of the most interesting places in Nizhny Novgorod. Zoo with large territory, which is divided into several zones. Everything animals and enclosures are clean and well maintained. Some animals can feed from hand and iron. Large variety: from birds to large animals and predators. The zoo will be interesting not only for adults, but and children. On the territory there are cafes and attractions for children.

Chkalovskaya stairs

The staircase has more than 500 steps and connects Minin Square and Pozharsky from the Volga embankment. This is one of the main attractions of the city. Seen from the bank of the Volga, at the very top of the stairs you can see a monument to Valery Chkalov, and at her foot – monument boat “Hero”. The staircase was built in honor of victories in the battle of Stalingrad. It offers a great view of The confluence of the Oka and Volga rivers is a favorite place for walking. residents of Nizhny Novgorod.

Chkalovskaya stairs

Monument to Valery Chkalov

Monument – one of the symbols of the city, located next to Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, at the beginning of the descent to the river famous Chkalovskaya stairs, in which more than 500 steps. From the monument opens magnificent view of the Arrow, Volga and the city.

Fedorovsky Embankment

The embankment is a pedestrian walkway at a height about 400 m above the river. From here there is a magnificent view of Arrow (the confluence of two rivers), the lower city and the Volga. Kinds, opening from the embankment of Theodorovsky are picturesque almost in any time of year, at dawn and dusk, day and evening. TO the embankment can be reached from the People’s Unity Square (where located a monument to Minin and Pozharsky). Pedestrian bridges, monument to M. Gorky, quiet and cozy atmosphere make this place one of the best for walking in Nizhny Novgorod.

Embankment of Feodorovsky

View from the embankment of Feodorovsky

Verkhnevolzhskaya embankment

The embankment starts from the monument to Valery Chkalov and goes along the banks of the Volga to the rowing canal. Along with the Fedorovsky Embankment, This is one of the best places for walking and leisurely promenade with excellent views of the Volga, however, through the trees, so it is for species it’s still better to go to the embankment of Theodorovsky or stay on the Chkalov ladder. Along the street are old buildings with memorial signs.

Verkhne-Volzhskaya embankment

Cable car

Entrance fee: 90 rubles in one the side

The road connects the high right bank of the Volga, where Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin and the historical part of the Lower Novgorod, with the city of Bor, which itself is from a tourist point The view is not interesting. A one-way trip lasts 15 minutes and costs 90 rubles. For residents of Bora, the cable car is a familiar sight. public transport. For tourists, it is rather an attraction. Of cable car booths you can see the rowing canal below, floating baths and islands, backwater. Better use the cable car to good sunny weather because during strong winds the movement of the booths can stop. More about the cable car.

Cable car in Nizhny Novgorod

Pechersky Ascension Monastery

The place where the male Pechersky Ascension Monastery even nowadays it is very quiet, although it is located almost in the center cities on the banks of the Volga. Its history began in the XIV century, monk of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery of St. Dionysius, who with several monks came to Nizhny Novgorod and dug a cave near the city. A few years later in this place was built the temple of the Ascension. Monastery becomes important spiritual and cultural center of Suzdal Nizhny Novgorod principality, The Laurentian Chronicle is being created in its walls by the monk Laurentius. In the 16th century, the monastery was in its prime, but in 1597 it suddenly was destroyed by the collapse of the mountain, which was considered a bad sign, and the monastery rebuilt a little further up the river. Shortly after these Events began Time of Troubles. Modern architectural ensemble The monastery was created in the middle of the 17th century by a local architect. Interestingly, the bell tower of the Ascension Cathedral is not worth vertically, and tilted, like the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Clock on this The bell tower is modern, with a battle, playing the melody “God Save the Tsar.” Now on the territory of the monastery is the Diocesan Museum, live several monks keeping the monastery clean and tidy. AT refectory monastery, you can buy cakes and tea.

Exhibition of paintings by artist A. Yurkov

Entrance fee: 50-100 rubles

Alexander Nikolaevich Yurkov (1935–2014) – distinctive Nizhny Novgorod artist and author of the artistic style “Florian mosaic “. His paintings are remarkable in that they are made of dry autumn leaves, seeds, twigs, etc. materials. Fiction Gallery “Yurkovka” was founded in 1998, has become a kind floristic museum, and after the artist’s death, the exposition moved to Vystovychny hall on Minin Square.

Museum of Entertaining Sciences Quarks

Entrance fee: from 250 rubles

Not only children will be delighted with this interactive museum, but also adults. A great place to awaken interest in science, it is in such an entertaining form that physics is absorbed better. Total. Inclined room, giant soap bubbles, various physical experiments with electricity, acoustics and gravity will lead most visitors are delighted. To visit the museum is necessary lay about three hours, especially if you are with children.

Museum “Locomotives of Russia”

Entrance fee: free

It is rather not a museum, but a small exhibition of 14 steam locomotives. there is both passenger and freight. Locomotives can be viewed for free, they stand on the open air. The exhibition is on the outskirts of Nizhny Novgorod. Around the locomotives laid tracks. True, not all locomotives can be climbed, the entrance to some is welded. This makes the exhibition not as interesting as it could be, if it was an organized museum.

Museum of architecture and life of the peoples of the Volga region

Entrance fee: 40 rubles

The museum is located in a forested area on the territory “Shchelokovsky farm”, consists of monuments of wooden architecture (huts, barns, mills), which were collected from different areas Nizhny Novgorod region. The houses are carved with authentic interiors. There is a historical reconstruction club at the museum, Holidays and festivals are held.

Museum of the History of Art Crafts Nizhny Novgorod areas

Entrance fee: 50 rubles

Part of the museum’s exhibits are items from private collections. Nizhny Novgorod merchant D.V. Sirotkin and famous local photographer A.O. Karelina. The museum exhibits works of folk arts and traditional arts and crafts Nizhny Novgorod region since the seventeenth century. Architectural and home carving, art painting on wood, embroidery, lace making, traditional costume, folk toys, artisanal furniture, etc.

Technical Museum

Entrance fee: 200 rubles

An interesting private museum of old technology and various technical devices. Now the museum has more than 2,000 copies, and It began with an ordinary caliper. Museum tour Lasts about three hours, all the exhibits are in working condition, all you can touch: start the machines, listen to the unique phonograph, gramophones, gramophones, losing rare records.

Russian Museum of Photography

Entrance fee: 150 rubles

One of the youngest museums in Nizhny Novgorod, located in 19th century building where world famous companies worked in the past. Photographers Andrei Osipovich Karelin, the founder of art photos, and Maxim P. Dmitriev, founder of journalistic Photo. The museum holds not only photographs, but also daguerreotypes, negatives, postcards, copies of old photographic equipment, illustrating its development, etc.

Electric vitamins

Interesting was installed on Markin Square not so long ago. an art object called “The Arch of Kisses”, but the people call it just “electric vitamins.” Looks like a small white gazebo on the pedestal. From the sign next to the monument you can find out that this work of modern art is dedicated “the electrical nature of human relations”. To arrow deviated to the maximum value, you need to palm slightly wet. By the way, the measuring scale on the reverse side has more meanings.

Electric vitamins

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