Nizhny Novgorod

Education

• Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky (NNSU)

Culture

Nizhny Novgorod is one of the largest cultural centers in Russia. The city has preserved many unique monuments of history, architecture and culture, which gave the foundation of UNESCO to include it in the list of 100 cities of the world that are of world historical and cultural value.

For 2006, there are many artists in Nizhny Novgorod belonging to a wide variety of creative schools and styles, two hundred and seventy of them are part of the local organization of the Union of Artists of Russia, formed in the city in 1933. Since 1997, the chairman of the organization is Vladimir Velichko.

History

Main article: History of Russia

1980

The characters of the cartoon Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka were so wildly popular that they had to be protected from fans, Nizhny Novgorod, 1980.

1904

Unregistered prostitutes caught by Nizhny Novgorod police at the famous fair, Russian Empire, 1900s.

Certificate of Nizhny Novgorod prostitute. In tsarist Russia, prostitution was allowed, but only after registration. Russian Empire, 1904.

1878

Nizhny Novgorod, 1870s.

Alms, Nizhny Novgorod, 1870s.