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Cities of the World. Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center of Russia’s Volga Federal District, charms with both its antiquity and its modernity. Known from chronicles for more than eight centuries, the city at the confluence of the Volga and the Oka is today Russia’s seventh most populous city. Its heart is the Kremlin, of remarkable beauty, which attracts tens of thousands of tourists all year round.



