Nihzniy Novgorad, Russia
Posted on July 5, 2009
Known Nijni abbreviated name, is the fourth city of the Russian Federation, after Moscow, St. Petresburg and Novosibirsk. Has a population of 1,311,252 inhabitants. The city is the economic and cultural center of the vast Volga-economic Viatka and also the administrative center of the region Nijni Novgorod and Volga Federal District.
Between 1932 and 1990, the town was named Gorki, so named in honor of the writer Maxim Gorki.
Most of the historical center of the city consists of buildings in Russian and Renaissance styles Stalinist Empire. The representative image of the city is the Kremlin walls (1500 - 1511), with towers built of red brick. After the Bolshevik demolitions, the only original building left inside the walls of fortifications was Archangel Cathedral (1624-1631), building built over a place of worship earlier in the XIIIth century.
