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unusual facts about Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast



Battle of Sarikamish

These prisoners were kept under confinement for the next three years in the small town of Varnavino east of Moscow on the Vetluga River.

Dmitry Timofeyevich Kozlov

Dmitry Timofeyevich Kozlov (October 23 (November 4) 1896, Razgulyayka, now in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast – December 6, 1967, Minsk) was a Soviet military commander.

Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Between 1948 and 1959, the dam of Gorky Hydroelectric Station (now Nizhny Novgorod Hydroelectric Station) was built a few kilometers upstream from Gorodets, and along with the station a new industrial town, Zavolzhye, was built on the right side of the Volga.

Kerzhenets

Kerzhenets (settlement), a former urban-type settlement in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia; since 2004—a rural-type settlement

Macarius of Unzha

Makaryevo (formerly Makaryev), Lyskovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, at Zheltovodsky Makariev Convent of Holy Trinity.

Mongol invasion of Rus'

Thereupon Batu Khan divided his army into smaller units, which ransacked fourteen cities of modern-day Russia: Rostov, Uglich, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Kashin, Ksnyatin, Gorodets, Galich, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yuriev-Polsky, Dmitrov, Volokolamsk, Tver, and Torzhok.

Nizhegorodsky

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Nizhegorodskaya oblast), a federal subject of Russia

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

The Makaryev Monastery opposite of the town of Lyskovo used to be the location of the largest fair in Eastern Europe.

Puchezh-Katunki crater

Puchezh-Katunki is a meteor crater in the Chkalovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Volga Federal District, Russia.

Valery Chkalov

The village of Vasilyevo where Chkalov was born is now the town of Chkalovsk (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast).

Vasiliy Kirdyapa

Vasiliy Dmitrievich Kirdyapa (Russian: Василий Дмитриевич Кирдяпа) (approximately 1350 – 1403) was the eldest son of Dmitri Konstantinovich of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod, a Prince of Suzdal (1364–1382) and Gorodets (1387–1403).


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