Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

The House of V. I. Smirnov is an architectural monument in the historical center of Nizhny Novgorod. Presumably built in the late 1890s. The author of the project has not been identified.

Wikipedia: Дом В. И. Смирнова (RU)

The Museum of the History of Arts and Crafts of the Nizhny Novgorod Region is a museum in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It is located at the address: Nizhny Novgorod, Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street, 43.

Wikipedia: Музей истории художественных промыслов Нижегородской области (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 monument was unveiled 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)

The monument to N. A. Dobrolyubov is located in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, in the park on Teatralnaya Square, on the right side of the building of the Academic Drama Theater. Nearby was the house where 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 municipal cultural institution of the city of Nizhny Novgorod. The museum has an extensive collection of photographic equipment, photographic literature, and photographs of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Russian Museum of Photography hosts such significant photo events of Russian and international scale as the Volga Biennale, the Svetopis Festival, as well as the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Photography Festival. From 2007 to 2010, the annual Russian Youth Photography Festival was held here.

Wikipedia: Русский музей фотографии (RU), Website

The A. M. Gorsky Apartment Museum is a branch of the State Order of Honor of the A. M. Gorky Museum and is located in Nizhny Novgorod at 19 Semashko Street.

Wikipedia: Музей-квартира А. М. Горького (Нижний Новгород) (RU)

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 Object 730. It was accepted into production in 1953 as the IS-8, but due to the political climate in the wake of Stalin's death in 1953, it was renamed T-10.

Wikipedia: T-10 tank (EN)

The BTR-80 is an 8×8 wheeled amphibious armoured personnel carrier (APC) designed in the Soviet Union. 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.

Wikipedia: BTR-80 (EN)

The BRDM-2 is an amphibious armoured scout car designed and developed in the Soviet Union. 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.

Wikipedia: BRDM-2 (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: BTR-70 (EN)

The escape of the Devyatayev Group was the escape of a group of ten Soviet prisoners of war led by fighter pilot M. P. Devyatayev in a captured German Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft on February 8, 1945 from the German concentration camp at the Peenemünde training ground.

Wikipedia: Побег группы Девятаева (RU)

Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky was a Ukrainian Soviet politician and Old Bolshevik. He participated in signing the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 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.

Wikipedia: Grigory Petrovsky (EN)