24 Sights in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (with Map and Images)
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List of cities in RussiaSightseeing Tours in Nizhny Novgorod1. Истребитель ЛА-7
The Lavochkin La-7 was a piston-engined single-seat Soviet fighter aircraft developed during World War II by the Lavochkin Design Bureau. It was a development and refinement of the Lavochkin La-5, and the last in a family of aircraft that had begun with the LaGG-1 in 1938. Its first flight was in early 1944 and it entered service with the Soviet Air Forces later in the year. A small batch of La-7s was given to the Czechoslovak Air Force the following year, but it was otherwise not exported. Armed with two or three 20 mm (0.8 in) cannon, it had a top speed of 661 kilometers per hour (411 mph). The La-7 was felt by its pilots to be at least the equal of any German piston-engined fighter. It was phased out in 1947 by the Soviet Air Force, but served until 1950 with the Czechoslovak Air Force.
2. Русский музей фотографии
The Rus Museum of Photographer in Nizhny Novgorod is a municipal institution of culture of the city of Nizhny Novgorod. The museum contains an extensive collection of photographic equipment, photolitatives, photographs of the XIX - XX centuries. On the basis of the Russian Museum, photographs are held by such significant photo events of the Russian and international scale as the Volga Biennale, the Light Patient festival, as well as the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Festival of photography. In 2007-2010 An annual Russian photographic festival of youth was held here.
3. Зенитная пушка 52-К
The 85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K) was an 85 mm (3.3 in) Soviet anti-aircraft gun, developed under guidance of leading Soviet designers M. N. Loginov and G. D. Dorokhin. This gun was successfully used throughout the German-Soviet War against level bombers and other high- and medium-altitude targets. In emergencies they were utilized as powerful anti-tank weapons. The barrel of the 52-K was the basis for the family of 85-mm Soviet tank guns. After the war some 52-Ks were refitted for peaceful purposes as anti-avalanche guns in mountainous terrain.
4. Бронеавтомобиль БА-64
The BA-64 was a Soviet four-wheeled armoured scout car. Built on the chassis of a GAZ-64 or GAZ-67 jeep, it incorporated a hull loosely modeled after that of the Sd. Kfz. 221. The BA-64 was developed between July and November 1941 to replace the BA-20 then in service with armoured car units of the Red Army. Cheap and exceptionally reliable, it would later become the most common Soviet wheeled armoured fighting vehicle to enter service during World War II, with over 9,000 being manufactured before production ended.
5. Рубка подводной лодки С-13
S-13 was a Stalinets-class submarine of the Soviet Navy. Her keel was laid down by Krasnoye Sormovo in Gorky on 19 October 1938. She was launched on 25 April 1939 and commissioned on 31 July 1941 in the Baltic Fleet, under the command of Captain Pavel Malantyenko. The submarine is best known for the 1945 sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff, a German military transport ship/converted cruise ship. With a career total of 44,701 GRT sunk or damaged, she is the highest-scoring Soviet submarine in history.
6. БРДМ-2
The BRDM-2 is an amphibious armoured scout car used by states that were part of the Soviet Union and its allies. It was also known under the designations BTR-40PB, BTR-40P-2 and GAZ 41-08. This vehicle, like many other Soviet designs, has been exported extensively and is in use in at least 38 countries. It was intended to replace the older BRDM-1, and has improved amphibious capabilities and better armament compared to its predecessor.
7. Артиллерия СУ-76
The SU-76 was a Soviet light self-propelled gun used during and after World War II. The SU-76 was based on a lengthened version of the T-70 light tank chassis and armed with the 76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3). Its quite simple construction and multipurpose combat role made it the second most produced Soviet armoured fighting vehicle of World War II, after the T-34 medium tank.
8. БМП-1
The BMP-1 is a Soviet amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle, in service 1966–present. BMP stands for Boyevaya Mashina Pyekhoty 1, meaning "infantry fighting vehicle, 1st serial model". The BMP-1 was the first mass-produced infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) of the Soviet Union. It was called the M-1967, BMP and BMP-76PB by NATO before its correct designation was known.
9. Нижегородский острог
Nizhny Novgorod Ostrog is a former prison in the historical center of Nizhny Novgorod. Ostrog is a complex from prison and an administrative building. Built in the form of a rectangle with four towers in the corners. The entire territory is surrounded by a brick wall. Currently used as a museum. Located at: Nizhny Novgorod, pl. Freedom, 2a.
10. Г. И. Петровский
Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky was a Ukrainian Soviet politician and Old Bolshevik. He participated in signing the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Petrovsky was Communist Party leader in Ukraine until 1938, and one of the officials responsible for implementing Stalin's policy of collectivization.
11. БТР-70
The BTR-70 is an eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier originally developed by the Soviet Union during the late 1960s under the manufacturing code GAZ-4905. On August 21, 1972, it was accepted into Soviet service and would later be widely exported. Large quantities were also produced under license in Romania as the TAB-77.
12. УР-67
UR-67-Soviet clearance installation. Created on the basis of a floating armored personnel carrier BTR-50PK. Adopted in 1968. In 1978, instead of UR-67, the production installations of the next generation UR-77 was established. Currently, UR-67 in the troops of the Armed Forces of Russia are absent.
13. Я. М. Свердлову
The monument to Y. M. Sverdlov in Nizhny Novgorod is located in the square on the corner of Bolshaya Pokrovskaya and Oktyabrskaya streets. The opening of the monument took place on November 5, 1957 The authors of the project are sculptors P. I. Gusev and N. M. Chugurin, architect V. N. Rymarenko.
14. Т-10М
The T-10 was a Soviet heavy tank of the Cold War, the final development of the IS tank series. During development, it was called IS-8 and IS-9. It was accepted into production in 1952 as the IS-10, but due to the political climate in the wake of Stalin's death in 1953, it was renamed T-10.
15. Памятник Н.А. Добролюбову
The monument to N. A. Dobrolyubov is located in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, in the square on the Theater Square, on the right side of the building of the Academic Drama Theater. Here was a house nearby, in which a literary critic, publicist N. A. Dobrolyubov (1836-1861) was born.
Wikipedia: Памятник Н. А. Добролюбову (Нижний Новгород) (RU)
16. Театр оперы и балета
Nizhny Novgorod State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after A. S. Pushkin is a Nizhny Novgorod theater founded in 1935 as the Gorky Opera and Ballet Theater. It is located in the Sovetsky District of Nizhny Novgorod. The number of seats in the auditorium is 1152.
Wikipedia: Нижегородский государственный академический театр оперы и балета имени А. С. Пушкина (RU), Website
17. Побег из ада
The escape of Devyatayev's group was the escape of a group of ten Soviet prisoners of war led by fighter pilot M. P. Devyatayev on a captured German Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft on February 8, 1945 from a German concentration camp at the Peenemünde test site.
18. «Катюша» БМ-13
BM-13 was a Soviet rocket launcher chariot during the Great Patriotic War and the largest Soviet chariot (BM) in this class. The most widely known nickname was "Katyusha," which Nazi German soldiers called "Stalin's organ" for making the sound of a rocket tail.
19. Домик Каширина
Kashirina’s house is a museum located in Nizhny Novgorod, the postal congress, 21, in the house of Grandfather M. Gorky (A. M. Peshkov) on the maternal line. The object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance.
20. 57-мм пушка ЗиС-3
The ZiS-2 is a Soviet 57 mm anti-tank gun used during World War II. The ZiS-4 is a version of the gun that was meant to be installed in tanks. ZiS stands for Zavod imeni Stalina, the official title of Artillery Factory No. 92, which produced the gun first.
21. 76-мм пушка ЗиС-3
The 76-mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3) was a Soviet 76.2 mm divisional field gun used during World War II. ZiS was a factory designation and stood for Zavod imeni Stalina, the honorific title of Artillery Factory No. 92, which first constructed this gun.
22. БТР-80
The BTR-80 is an 8×8 wheeled amphibious armoured personnel carrier (APC) designed in the USSR. It was adopted in 1985 and replaced the previous vehicles, the BTR-60 and BTR-70, in the Soviet Army. It was first deployed during the Soviet–Afghan War.
23. Губернаторский сад
Governor's Garden is a park located in the historical center of Nizhny Novgorod, within the Kremlin in Nizhny Novgorod. Designed in 1836 by Franz Semenovich Perzel, chief gardener of the Kremlin architectural expedition, the style is English.
24. Василий Маргелов
Vasily Filippovich Margelov was a Red Army General who was the commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) from 1954 to 1959 and from 1961–1979. Margelov modernized the VDV and was a Hero of the Soviet Union.
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