Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

The Museum of the River Fleet of the Volga State University of Water Transport is a museum covering the history of navigation on the Volga. It is located in the VSUWT building at the address: Nizhny Novgorod, Nesterova Street, 5.

Wikipedia: Музей речного флота Волжской государственной академии водного транспорта (RU)

Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory was the first Soviet science laboratory in the field of radio electronics. It was based in 1918 in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1928, the laboratory was reorganized and moved into the Central Radio Laboratory in Leningrad.

Wikipedia: Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: 85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K) (EN)

T-34-85 is the military designation of the last mass modification of the Soviet T-34 medium tank with an 85-mm gun.

Wikipedia: Т-34-85 (RU)

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.

Wikipedia: 57 mm anti-tank gun M1943 (ZiS-2) (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: 76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3) (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: GAZ-67 (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: SU-76 (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: BA-64 (EN)

BM-13-Soviet combat vehicle of reactive artillery of the Second World War period The most massive Soviet combat vehicle (BM) of this class. The most widely known under the folk nickname “Katyusha”, the soldiers of Nazi Germany called it “Stalin's Organ” due to the sound made by rocket plumes.

Wikipedia: БМ-13 (RU)

S-13 was an S-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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The monument to N. A. Dobrolyubov is located in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, in the square on Teatralnaya Square, on the right side of the building of the Academic Drama Theater. Here nearby was the house in which the literary critic and publicist N. A. Dobrolyubov (1836-1861) was born.

Wikipedia: Памятник Н. А. Добролюбову (Нижний Новгород) (RU)

The Russian Museum of Photography in Nizhny Novgorod is a state budgetary institution of culture in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The museum has an extensive collection of photographic documents and photographic equipment of the XIX-XX centuries. The Russian Museum of Photography hosts such significant photo events of regional and Russian scale as the Volga Biennale, the Svetopis, and the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Festival of Photography.

Wikipedia: Русский музей фотографии (RU), Website

The monument to Y. M. Sverdlov in Nizhny Novgorod is located in the park at the corner of Bolshaya Pokrovskaya and Oktyabrskaya streets. The opening of the monument took place on November 5, 1957 by sculptors P. I. Gusev and N. M. Chugurin, architect V. N. Rymarenko.

Wikipedia: Памятник Я. М. Свердлову (Нижний Новгород) (RU)

Peter's House in Nizhny Novgorod is a landmark in the center of Nizhny Novgorod, located on modern Pochainskaya Street.

Wikipedia: Домик Петра I (Нижний Новгород) (RU)

Kashirin's House is a museum located in Nizhny Novgorod, Postal Congress, 21, in the house of M. Gorky's maternal grandfather (A. M. Peshkov). An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance.

Wikipedia: Домик Каширина (RU)