Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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1.8 km
43 m
Explore Nizhny Novgorod in Russia with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in Nizhny NovgorodIndividual Sights in Nizhny NovgorodSight 1: Домик Каширина
Kashirin's House is a museum located in Nizhny Novgorod, 21 Postal Congress, in the house of M. Gorky's grandfather (A. M. Peshkov) on his mother's side. An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance.
Sight 2: Домик Петра I
Peter’s house in Nizhny Novgorod is a landmark in the center of Nizhny Novgorod, located on a modern Pochainskaya street.
Sight 3: «Катюша» БМ-13
The BM-13 was a Soviet rocket artillery combat vehicle of the Second World War, the most mass-produced Soviet combat vehicle (BM) of this class. Most widely known by the popular nickname "Katyusha", the soldiers of Nazi Germany called it "Stalin's organ" because of the sound made by the plumage of the missiles.
Sight 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.
Sight 5: 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 ZIS-3 mod. 1942 76-mm divisional field gun. Developed under the leadership of chief designer S.A. Ginzburg (1900–1943). Its quite simple construction and multipurpose combat role made it the second most produced Soviet armored fighting vehicle of World War II, after the T-34 medium tank.
Sight 6: Автомобиль ГАЗ-67Б
The GAZ-67 and the GAZ-67B were general-purpose four-wheel drive Soviet military vehicles built by GAZ starting in 1943. By the end of the war, it was the Soviet equivalent of the World War II jeep.
Sight 7: 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.
Sight 8: 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.
Sight 9: Танк Т-34
T-34-85 is the military designation of the last mass modification of the Soviet medium tank T-34 with an 85 mm gun.
Sight 10: 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 Second World 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.
Sight 11: 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.
Sight 12: 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 Pyotr Malanchenko. 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.
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