Nizhny Novgorod is the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in Russia. The city is located at the confluence of the Oka and the Volga rivers in Central Russia, with a population of over 1.2 million residents, up to roughly 1.7 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Nizhny Novgorod is the sixth-largest city in Russia, the second-most populous city on the Volga, as well as the Volga Federal District. It is an important economic, transportation, scientific, educational and cultural centre in Russia and the vast Volga-Vyatka economic region, and the main centre of river tourism in Russia. In the historic part of the city there are many universities, theatres, museums and churches.
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is a federal subject of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,119,115 as of the 2021 Census. From 1932 to 1990 it was known as Gorky Oblast.
The Ural State University is a public university located in the city of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation. Founded in 1920, it was an exclusive educational establishment made of several institutes which later became independent universities and schools.
The National Research State University of Nizhny Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky,, also known as Lobachevsky University, is a public research university in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and one of the biggest classical universities of the country. The university is ranked 1,455th in the world in the U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities 2022-2023.
Maria Fyodorovna Andreyeva was the stage name of Maria Fyodorovna Yurkovskaya, a Russian/Soviet actress and Bolshevik administrator.
David Albertovich Frank-Kamenetskii was a Soviet theoretical physicist and chemist, professor and doctor of physical, chemical and mathematical sciences. He developed the thermal explosion theory, worked on plasma physics problems and in astrophysics.
Anatoliy Nasiedkin(Russian: Анотолий Леонидович Наседкин; Ukrainian: Анатолій Леонідович Насєдкін); 22 April 1924, in Veliky Novgorod – 26 July 1994, in Kharkiv) was a Soviet Ukrainian painter. He graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Arts in 1951. His teacher was Mykhail Deregus. In 1985 was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize.
Nikolai Elpidiforovich Karonin-Petropavlovsky, was a Russian Empire writer, essayist, and political activist. His real name was Nikolai Petropavlovsky; his pen name was S. Karonin. A number of later Russian sources refer to him as Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky.
Evgeny Nikolayevich Chirikov, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and publicist.
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The GAZ-AA is a truck produced at the Gorky Auto Plant in the Soviet Union from 1932 to 1938, and was the factory's first truck produced under the GAZ brand. Russian-speakers often refer to it as a polutorka (полуторка) - meaning "one-and-a halfer", with reference to its carrying capacity of 1.5 tonnes.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin is a Russian former linguist, philologist, and historian who was arrested in 2011 after the mummified bodies of twenty-six girls and women between the ages of 3 and 29 were discovered in his apartment in Nizhny Novgorod. After exhuming the bodies from local cemeteries, Moskvin mummified the bodies himself before dressing and posing them around his home. Moskvin's parents, who shared the apartment with him, knew of the mummies but mistook them for large dolls.
Nizhny Novgorod was founded by Prince Yuri II of Vladimir in 4 February 1221. Citizens organized an army to liberate Moscow from the Poles in 1611, led by Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky. During the Russian Empire, in 1817 Nizhny Novgorod became the country's main trading city. In 1896, the city hosted the largest All-Russia exhibition. In the Soviet era, Nizhny Novgorod was renamed Gorky, in honor of the writer Maxim Gorky. Then it was the industrial center of the Soviet Union. During the World War II, the city sent to the front a huge amount of military equipment and ammunition. Therefore, the German air force bombed the city for 3 years. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the city was renamed back to Nizhny Novgorod. In Russia, the city became a political center and the capital of the Volga Federal District. Now the city is the center of information technology and develops tourism.
Andrei Viktorovich Gaponov-Grekhov was a Russian (Soviet) physicist, a Full Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the founder of the Institute of Applied Physics in Nizhny Novgorod, and its first director in 1976-2003.
The Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is the head of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.
Yuri Nikolaevich Pokrovsky is a Russian writer. He was born in 1954 in Vienna, to a family of translators. Soon after his birth, his parents moved to the city of Gorky. He studied economics at the local university and continues to live in the city to this day.
Artyom Kavinov is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 8th State Duma. In 2005, he was awarded a Candidate of Sciences in Economics degree.
Anatoly Lesun is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 8th State Duma. In 2010, he was granted a Doctor of Sciences in Technical sciences degree.
