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City Bitter! A city with a population of over a million people. The city became one of the largest industrial centers of the country. We invite you to become acquainted with the Order of Lenin city of Gorky, with its rich history, with its current life. City Gorky - this is the best Soviet cars "Volga" and "Seagull", river and sea vessels, powerful engines, precision instruments and heavy machinery ... Widely spread out city on the banks of the Oka and the Volga River, which divides it into two parts, very different from each other. Mountainous part is cut by ravines, abruptly to the Oka and Volga. A vast expanse of the Volga River opens with a slope on Checkov left-bank side - to the horizon, green expanses of meadows. Mountainous part of the Kremlin has more than 760 years. Nina - known since the XVI century. Our city - home to such prominent people of the State, as IP Kulibin, Lobachevsky, N. Dobrolyubov, Mily Balakirev, Maxim Gorky, Yakov Sverdlov. In the city lived writers PD Boborykin, V. Dahl, N. Karamzin, VG Korolenko, PI Melnikov-Crypt. You can tell a lot about our city on the Volga. He invites you to visit! More than 760 years ago, in 1221, came to these shores Struga Vladimir Prince George Vsevolodovich. Tired after a hard hike squad broke camp. The prince ascended the steep Volga bank, he looked about and sank into his soul, these boundless distance. The place was not only beautiful, but comfortable - here the main Russian rivers converge. And, gathering the faithful soldiers, the prince told them their idea - build a new castle and call it Nizhny Novgorod. Over the centuries that have passed since those distant days, a lot of heroic events took place in Nizhny Novgorod Volga. Mindful of the terrible years of the old tower of the Kremlin. One of the legends of the time of the Mongol-Tatar invasion. Early in the morning faced burgher girl Dunya to fetch water from the stream Pochaina. Down the hill, he looked at it - around the enemy forces. We came up enemies quietly become a city to attack suddenly. Do not have time to run away girl, but the enemies do not give up. She bravely fought back from his foe yoke and many soldiers go to bed. She perished. But the enemies came to my Khan, told with fear: "If this city girl so brave so strong, what is to be a man?" And the Horde retreated from the bottom. And in the place where struggling Dunyasha put Nizhny Novgorod tower and called her - rocker. Many times the enemy attacked the Nizhny Novgorod. Not once burned down the wooden Kremlin. Since joining the Moscow Nizhny Novgorod became the stronghold of Russia in the fight against the Kazan Khanate. In 1500 - 1511 he was the stone Kremlin was built with 13 towers (Demetrius tower has now become the main entrance to the citadel from the area of Minin and Pozharsky). Remember Nizhny Novgorod in the Volga region and how dashing troops Razin terrifying knights for the estate, which the storm was for rapists Pugachev. And who does not know the name of balahnintsa Kozma Minin. In hard times Russia he gathered the people near the Kremlin and threw cry, caught in Nizhny Novgorod: "Moscow State grads and other large and smaller - all ruined. With our wealth? TOKM unholy envy and ashche shall come and take our degrees. A single hail our ustoyati it? So we put all our wealth and begin Do you want to figure out and martial people. In a special hall of the Art Museum of the city of Gorky painting exhibited Makovsky "Appeal Minin. On a huge canvas painted in the "living thing, a big historical genre, loyal, interesting and very beautiful" (M. Gorky). This painting - one of the landmarks of our city. In the square in front of Demetrius Kremlin tower is a monument to Minin. In the Archangel Cathedral, built in honor of the victory of Russian soldiers on the Polish-Lithuanian invaders, under the banner of Nizhny Novgorod militia rests now ashes Cosmas Minin. Bitter in the 80
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