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unusual facts about Grand Duchy of Suzdal-Nizhny Novgorod



Anton Buslov

Has reached out the repeal of a law which was restricted to took a photography in the subways of Samara, Kazan, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod.

Battle on Pyana River

Pereyaslavl
Yaroslavl
Yuryev
Nizhny Novgorod
Murom

The Battle on Pyana River took place on August 2, 1377 between the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha (Arab-Shah Muzaffar) and joint Russian troops under Knyaz Ivan Dmitriyevich, made up of the Pereyaslavl, Yaroslavl, Yuryev, Nizhny Novgorod and Murom warlords.

Dodge Stratus

The license and production facilities for the second generation Dodge Stratus and Chrysler Sebring sedans were sold in April 2006 to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, owner the GAZ company in Nizhny Novgorod, which builds the Volga automobile.

Édouard Collignon

In 1857 to 1862 he played an important role in the construction of railways from Saint Petersburg to Warsaw and from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod.

Friedrich Asinger

In October 1946, Asinger was deported together with 34 chemists, physicists and engineers of the Leuna-Werke to the Soviet Union to Dzerzhinsk, near Gorky.

Georg Kuphaldt

Some of the most renowned works of Kuphaldt are the gardens of the Winter Palace and Oranienbaum in Saint Petersburg as well as locations in Nizhny Novgorod, Dagomys in Sochi, Tsarskoye Selo and Catharinenthal Palace in Reval (now Tallinn).

Leonty Shamshugenkov

According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia entry on "motor cars", Leonty Shamshugenkov was "a peasant in the Nizhny Novgorod province" who in 1751-2,"constructed a self-propelling vehicle operated by two men."

Mistel

As part of Operation Iron Hammer in late 1943 and early 1944, Mistels were selected to carry out key raids against Soviet weapons-manufacturing facilities—specifically, electricity-generating power stations around Moscow and Gorky.

MTV-82

Nizhny Novgorod tram & trolley museum has a third operable MTV-82 in its tramcar collection.

N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

From 1932 to 1956, its name was State University of Gorky – from 1932 to 1990 the city of Nizhny Novgorod was known as Gorky – and from 1956 to 1990 the Lobachevsky State University of Gorky after great Russian mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky.

Nadezhda Plevitskaya

Soon they moved to Moscow, where she began singing in the well-known Yar restaurant, whose specialty was gypsy bands with beautiful female singers, and going on tour; at a concert in 1909 at the Nizhny Novgorod fair, she was heard by the great tenor Leonid Sobinov, who brought her to the attention of a wider public, which soon included the Imperial family as well as Feodor Chaliapin.

Nuclear submarine

At the height of the Cold War, approximately five to ten nuclear submarines were being commissioned from each of the four Soviet submarine yards (Sevmash in Severodvinsk, Admiralteyskiye Verfi in St. Petersburg, Krasnoye Sormovo in Nizhny Novgorod, and Amurskiy Zavod in Komsomolsk-on-Amur).

October Revolution

The Moscow workers were supported by strikes and protest rallies by workers in Kiev, Kharkov, Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, and other cities.

Popovtsy

In the 18th - 19th centuries, the Popovtsy lived in communities on the Vetka Island on the Sozh River, in Starodub, along the Irgiz River, in monasteries of the province of Nizhny Novgorod along the Kerzhenets River, although they were scattered throughout Russia and even far beyond its boundaries.

Prince Alexey Lvov

Alexey Lvov began his career as a deputy governor of Nizhny Novgorod (1610), Rylsk (1615), Astrakhan (1618–20).

Purgaz

In April, 1229 he tried to regain Nizhny Novgorod from the Russians, which was formerly the Erzyan settlement of Obran Osh.

Raphael von Koeber

Raphael von Koeber was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, but his father (a doctor) was ethnic German.

Saransk

Formerly, Saransk was also served by two daily PenzaNizhny Novgorod passenger trains, carrying passengers from nearby villages mainly to either Ruzayevka junction station and Penza or to Arzamas and Nizhny Novgorod.

Sergei Chetverikov

He later moved to Nizhny Novgorod and organized the Department of Genetics at Gorky University.

Sergei Lyapunov

After the death of his father, Mikhail Lyapunov, when he was about eight, Sergei, his mother, and his two brothers (one of them was Aleksandr Lyapunov, later a notable mathematician) went to live in the larger town of Nizhny Novgorod.

Troy Harley

Troy Harley, earlier known as Roman Arkhipov, was born in Nizhny Novgorod, in Russia.

Turnstile

But as fare collection became a more pressing business in post-Soviet Russia, railway terminals and high-traffic railway station in the Moscow area, Nizhny Novgorod and elsewhere had turnstiles installed.

Valenki

Before the revolution, the production of valenki was concentrated in the Semenov district of Nizhny Novgorod province, in the Kineshma District of Kostroma province, and in the Kukmor in Kazan province.

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).

Wilhelm Leichum

Wilhelm Leichum (May 12, 1911, Neu-Isenburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse – July 19, 1941, Gorky) was a German athlete who competed mainly in the long jump and 100 metres.


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