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	Top 5 Museums of Nizhny Novgorod
	Nizhny Novgorod is a large Russian city with a long history and rich cultural heritage. It boasts dozens of museums that are truly attractive and engaging to travelers.
--05-10-2018--
	How to Get to Nizhny Novgorod Airport
	Nizhny Novgorod charms its visitors with the surviving Russian Revival and Stalin Empire style architecture.
--09-07-2016--
	Top 3 Videos From Russia
	In this episode, two floods, one big, the other small, while girls in the Nizhny Novgorod Region entertain and educate drivers by their scarce dresses.
--20-08-2013--
	Shopping in Nizhny Novgorod
	Nizhny Novgorod is Russia’s fifth largest city with highly-developed international relations. It has more than ten sister-cities in Germany, USA, Austria, China, Finland, Spain, Ukraine, etc. Thus, a lot of businessmen and tourists arrive to Nizhny Novgorod to enjoy its rich cultural heritage combined with the modern infrastructure and conveniences. As the city is rapidly developing, several superlative shopping centres have been opened here recently.
--24-09-2012--
	Gorodets Painting
	Gorodets painting is one of the most famous folk arts and crafts of Russia, and a vivid phenomenon of the so-called naïve art. Bright and laconic Gorodets painting (genre scenes, figurines of horses, roosters, and flower patterns) performed with free strokes of paint brush, with white and black graphic outlining, decorated distaffs, furniture, doors and shutters.
--28-08-2011--
	Khokhloma Painting
	Khokhloma is a traditional folk Russian handicraft that appeared in the 17th century in villages under Nizhni Novgorod. One of the most famous kinds of folk Russian decorative painting, it is used in creation of splendid ornate wooden tableware and furniture.
--28-08-2011--

News:

	Patriarchate Museum to be Opened in Arzamas
	Authorities of Nizhni Novgorod Region have allocated 8 million rubles for restoration of an ancient building, where Russian Patriarchate Museum will be opened this summer.
--28-01-2013--
	Nizhny Novgorod Develops Water and Family Tourism
	The government of Nizhny Novgorod Region plans to develop its potential as a centre of water and family tourism. The Charskoe Lake in Ardatovsky District will become one of the focal points of a new tourist destination in Russia.
--23-08-2012--
	Joint Monument to Chaliapin and Gorky to Appear in the Nizhny Novgorod Region
	A monument to Maxim Gorky and Feodor Chaliapin has been unveiled in the past weekend in the Nizhny Novgorod Region on Mokhovye Hills in Borsk District.
--15-08-2012--
	Shukhov Tower in the Nizhniy Novgorod Region Suggested for UNESCO List
	The well-known Shukhov Tower in the Nizhniy Novgorod region has been suggested to be included in the UNESCO list of world heritage sites.
--27-01-2012--
	Medieval Site Found by Unique Svetloyar Lake
	Not far from Lake Svetloyar (Nizhniy Novgorod region) archeologists have found remains of the medieval Russian settlement preliminary dated to the 14th-early 15th centuries.
--26-12-2011--
	Museum of Household Effects Opened in Nizhniy Novgorod Region
	The Museum of Household Effects displaying household items of Russia of the late 19th - early 20th centuries has been opened in Gorodets town of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region.
--25-07-2011--
	In Vitro Technique for Growing Vegetables
	Researchers from Nizhniy Novgorod region suggest growing plants by means of microclonal propagation.
--21-06-2011--
	Museum of Wooden Spoon to Appear in Nizhniy Novgorod Region
	An original museum-workshop of the wooden spoon and folk household will be created in Semenov Town of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region.
--20-06-2011--