I was in Nizhny Novgorod only once and already wrote about your impressions of the city, I will not repeat myself. Most of my day was spent walking along the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin and the surrounding embankments. All this is the center of the city, quite well maintained, with beautiful views of the other side of the river. Great place for walking, I recommend.
The content of the article
- one Walk around the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
- 2 Historical reference
- 3 Information to visit
- 4 On the map
Walk around the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
If you are going to see Nizhny Novgorod, then in any way you will find yourself in the upper part of the city, where the Kremlin is located, it is worth walking here. First of all, for me personally, the Kremlin turned out to be valuable not for its history and culture, but for the fact that inside and around it there is an exemplary urban environment. It's really nice to be here: lawns, flower beds, paved paths, everything is clean and licked. And what a view from the high bank! Yes, just for the sake of him, you can come here every weekend for a walk. Okay, I already wrote about the view in my post about Nizhny Novgorod.
The observation deck offers stunning views
Exhibition of children's works dedicated to May 9
Below you can see the fortress wall
View of the Volga at the confluence with the Oka
Great place for a photo
Great place to think
View from the Kremlin to Nizhny Novgorod
Observation deck outside the Kremlin
Hill of poets and a bird
Zelensky Congress
Kremlin in Nizhny Novgorod
The Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin has been well restored, and even one of the walls was built almost from scratch, as a result of which it is completely closed again. I remember here Kolomna Kremlin, where, on the contrary, there is only one wall left. In Nizhny Novgorod, you can walk along the Kremlin wall, making an incomplete circle (further closed). And at least some special views will not open to you (exactly the same views are opened and not from the wall), but this way you can touch the history a little. It may seem unusual that the Kremlin wall repeats the landscape, going down the hill to the Volga. Therefore, on your way along the wall, there will be steps of gigantic dimensions, and you will have to return to the starting point, either along the same road along the wall, or along the territory of the Kremlin, but also up.
Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
I walk around the Kremlin and Nizhny Novgorod
Not without rock art of modern aborigines
Walk on the fortress wall
Exposition in one of the towers
Staircase with high steps - the wall goes down
This is what this staircase looked like before restoration.
Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
The old destroyed wall was left under the roof for all to see
Photo of the remains of the wall before restoration
A piece of a new wall and the Conception tower
Historical reference
The Kremlin is the main historical landmark and center of Nizhny Novgorod. The first wooden fortress appeared here in the XIII century, during the reign of Prince Vladimir, Yuri, who founded the city. On the high bank, in the place where the Volga and Oka meet, the first earthworks and wooden walls were erected. During the time of Ivan III, Nizhny Novgorod became an important strategic point, a permanent army was located here. The stone walls and towers of the Kremlin were built in the 16th century under the direction of the famous architect Pietro Francesco (Petr Fryazin), who was sent specially for this from Moscow. In the 16th century, the Kremlin was repeatedly sieged, but never taken. After Kazan was taken in 1552, the military significance of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin declined. According to legend, the famous library of Ivan the Terrible is kept somewhere on the territory of the Kremlin..
Under Catherine II, the walls were rebuilt, as a result of which the Kremlin gradually began to collapse and decline. It no longer had its former military significance, however, during the war of 1812, the Nizhny Novgorod militia was sent from the walls of the Kremlin. Since then, the Kremlin has been restored several times; museums and administrative buildings have functioned on its territory and in the towers. In Soviet times, part of the Kremlin was nearly demolished to expand Minin and Pozharsky Square (at that time it was called Soviet), but this was prevented by the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War..
After the recent restoration and restoration of some of the towers, the walls of the Kremlin again form a closed ring. Their length is about two kilometers. 12 towers of the Kremlin have survived, which now house various museum expositions and exhibitions. Now on the territory of the Kremlin there are various institutions: the prosecutor's office, the main registry office, the post office. In addition, on the vast territory of the Kremlin there is an art museum, an eternal flame, an exposition of military equipment from the Second World War, several cafes, and an alley of love. Now the territory of the Kremlin is clean, well-groomed, there are paths, lawns, in summer there are many flowers. Tourists can walk along the walls of the Kremlin, and children can climb on the military equipment displayed in the Kremlin. From all sides the Kremlin offers a wonderful view of the Volga, Strelka and the lower city. The northwestern part of the fortress descends almost to the river, from the southeast the Kremlin is adjacent to the Minin and Pozharsky squares, and the southwestern walls rise above the Pochainsky ravine and the National Unity square.
Information to visit
Where to stay in Nizhny Novgorod
What else to see in Nizhny Novgorod
The wall is open from 10 am to 5 pm from September to November and from 10 am to 8 pm from May to August. Now you can walk from the Dmitrievskaya tower to the Zachatskaya (it has already been opened).
Free entrance to the Kremlin.
The cost of a walk is 130 rubles for an adult, 90 rubles for a student / pensioner, 60 rubles for a student, children under 7 years old are free.
Visiting the exhibition in the Dmitrievskaya Tower 50 rubles for an adult, 30 rubles for a student / pensioner, 25 rubles for a student, children under 7 years old free.
Visiting exhibitions in other towers is included in the walking ticket.
The cost of excursions to the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
The plan of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
On the map
The dot marks the Dmitrievskaya tower, near it one of the entrances to the Kremlin and a staircase to the wall (the ticket office is in the same place). It is better to start a walk on the wall from here..
Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
An excellent view of the Volga and Strelka (the confluence of the Oka and Volga) opens up from the walls of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. You can walk along the walls and five towers of the Kremlin.
An excellent view of the Volga and Strelka (the confluence of the Oka and Volga) opens up from the walls of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. You can walk along the walls and five towers of the Kremlin.
