A cable railway near the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin will be restored. Nizhny Novgorod authorities are planning to restore the Kremlin cable railway in time to the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod to be celebrated in 2021.

      The Kremlin cable railway in Nizhny Novgorod was built in time to the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of the year 1896. It connected the terminal station of the tram line passing along Rozhdestvenskaya Street from the exit from the Pontoon Bridge (Kanavinsky Bridge exists now in its place) to Skoba with the tram line leading from the Kremlin along Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street through Malaya Pokrovskaya Street and further along Pokhvalinskaya Street to Smirnovsky Garden . The total length of the line of the Kremlin cable railway was 133.12 meters, the travel time made up one and a half minutes.