👾My sweet home👾
Hi! So today I accept the blog challenge from Alexandra and I’m going to tell you about my native city.
I was born in Nizhny Novgorod and now I will give you a little excursion🔥
🐵Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin🐵
The Kremlin is the center and the heart of the city. It’s the place where the history of Nizhny Novgorod started.
Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin includes 5 square towers with the gates and 8 round ones.
The city authorities, the region governor administration and the legislation authorities are situated inside the Kremlin walls. Moreover, there are religion and cultural sights such as Mikhaylo-Arkhangelsky Cathedral, Eternal Flame and museums.
🙈Nizhny Novgorod Fair🙈
Founded ages ago now Nizhny Novgorod Fair is both a great historical and architectural tourist attraction and a famous exhibition center.
Nizhny Novgorod Fair has a great history. Actually it was a market place but after renovating the fair has become a superb modern exhibition complex that now welcomes different international events, fairs, and conventions.
🙉Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum Rukavishnikov Mansion🙉
The Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum is one of the oldest museums in Russia. Being founded in 1896 as «The City Art and Historical Museum» it has gained a great history and now has got a diverse and rich collection of paintings of different trend and genre. There are masterpieces both of Russian and European painters.
🙊Rukavishnikov Mansion🙊
This exhibition space is located inside a 19th-century mansion once belonging to the Rukavishnikov merchant family. There you can wander through the rooms on your own or join one of the hourly 40-minute excursions in Russian and English. Furniture and the interior are illustrious
👀Chkalov Staircase👀
The Chkalov Staircase is a great and monumental erection built in the Soviet era. The construction of the staircase cost an immense sum at the time — almost 8 million rubles and was built by German prisoners of the war. The staircase derives its name from pilot Valery Chkalov. He was the first man who flew from Moscow to Vancouver through the North Pole in 1937. There is a monument to Chkalov at the top of the stairs. Staircase numbers at about 1,500 stairs that connect the river embankment with the city center.
