Charters Prices Nizhny Novgorod is located on the right bank of the Volga River at the confluence of the Oka river in it. The city was founded in 1221 by Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich to protect the Russian borders and was named Novgorod. Its construction began with a wooden defensive fortress. In the 14th century, not to be confused Novgorod on Volga Novgorod, that on the Volkhov River, its name was changed to Nizhny Novgorod. In 1341 the city became the capital of a vast principality of Suzdal-Nizhny Novgorod. In the mid-15th century, the principality was annexed to Moscow.Nizhny Novgorod has become the main point where the troops were going and where they moved to the Kazan Khanate. In 1506, in the city begin to build stone Kremlin to replace the old wooden ukrepeleny.Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin had thirteen towers, the branch strelnitsa and was surrounded by a 30-meter ditch. After the conquest of Kazan Khanate role of Nizhny Novgorod, a watchdog item was lost, and he became one of the largest shopping centers, through which the Russian State traded with the East. Every year the famous Makarevskaya fair was held around the city.In the days of the Troubles is formed militia led by Minin and Pozharsky, which liberated Moscow from Polish invaders. In 1714 Nizhni Novgorod became a provincial city.From that time began the development of the industry. In addition, the city has become a cultural and scientific center of the country. It worked such famous people as a mechanic IP Kulibin and mathematician NILobachevsky. In 1816, burned trade center in Makariev, a new one was erected near Nizhny Novgorod. New Fair has become one of the largest in the world. In 1929, Nizhny Novgorod became the center of the Nizhny Novgorod region. In 1932, the city was renamed Gorky, in honor of the writer Maxim Gorky, and the edge - in Gorky. In Gorky worked the large industrial enterprises, which during the Great Patriotic War, supplying the Soviet army defensive technique. In 1990, the city was again renamed to Nizhny Novgorod. In Nizhny Novgorod, numerous historical and architectural attractions. In the historic center of the plaza is the Kremlin Minin. For several centuries, the Kremlin was the main fortified point of the eastern borders of the Moscow kingdom. The current brick Kremlin was built in the early 16th century on the orders of Tsar Ivan III. Its construction began with the erection of the tower of Ivanovo in 1500. Then it was built 12 more towers and diverter strelnitsa. To date, of the 13 towers have survived 12: Demetrius, Powder, St. George, Boris and Gleb, White, Clock, Ivanovo, North, Taynitskaya, Koromyslova, Nicholas, Pantry. Conception tower was destroyed by a landslide. Demetrius Tower mentioned in chronicles as early as the late 14th century, when the fortifications in Nizhny Novgorod were made of stone. The Clock Tower was the main point guard the fortress, and so got its name. Also in the 16th century there were a clock, every quarter of an hour time slugger. Tainitzky tower called so because it was conducted by an underground passage to the Pochaina river. Rocker tower got its name from a legend says that the Tartars here was killed a girl who went to fetch water when she was attacked, she became defensive yoke and killed several of the Tatars. Storage tower was used for storage of various supplies.The Powder Tower was a warehouse of gunpowder and combat guns. North Tower was named because of its position relative to the other towers of the Kremlin. The remaining towers were named by standing next to churches. Archangel Cathedral - to the present day from the fortress churches, only one survived. At this point, a wooden church, which was rebuilt was built in 1221 in stone in 1227. In 1359, she was capitally reconstructed and played the role of the church at the mansion of the Grand Duke.After the Tatar invasion and the Time of Troubles, the church was badly damaged, but it was rebuilt in 1631. Now the cathedral is the dust Minin, as well as the remains of the princes of the 15th century - Vasily Kirdyapy, Ivan, Vasily Yurevich and members of their families. Opposite the cathedral's building in 1828 was the obelisk to Minin and Pozharsky, and in 1965 there lit an eternal flame and opened the memorial complex in honor of gorkovchan who died during the Great Patriotic War. In the late 18th century on the central square of the Kremlin appeared Corps official place, the palace of the vice-governor and the garrison house, in the middle of the 19th century there was built a house of the military governor, where today is located the Art Museum and the Arsenal, in the 20th century in the Kremlin established Council House, which now houses the City Council.
