One dweller of Nizhny Novgorod has thought it might be interesting to take some pictures of the city and compare them with old photos taken 50-100 years ago. Look what he’s got!
In the picture: Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street.
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The Kremlin.
Flophouse inhabitants.
A shopping arcade.
City Exchange.
Rozhdestvenskaya Street.
Sofronovskaya Square.
Rozhdestvenskaya Street.
The Volga River and the Oka River junction place and a market.
A quay.
Another market.
Governmental House and Dvoryanskaya Street.
Court House and Administration House.
State Bank.
The governer’s house.
Dmitrievskaya Tower.
City Board.
Blagoveschenskaya Square, left part.
Koromyslova Tower.
City Theater.
Bolshaya Yamskaya Street and Malaya Pokrovskaya Street Intersection.
General Governer’s Palace in the Kremlin.
Now it is a showroom.
A descent in the Kremlin to the Ivanovskaya Tower.
A church.
It is no longer here.
The Kremlin wall.
The Kremlin elevator.
It is no longer here as well.
General Governer’s Palace.
Georgievskaya Tower.
Georgievskaya Tower again.
Georgievskaya Church.
It was replaced with ‘The Rossiya Hotel’.
A mansion.
A women’s institute
Now it is a branch of the Polytechnic University.
A religious gathering on Bolshaya Pecherskaya Street.
Zelensky Street.
Zelensky Street again.
A church.
Ilyinskaya Street.
A store there.
Another view of this store on Ilyinskaya Street.
Zvezdinsky Park.
Ostrozhnaya Square.
The Cherny Pond.
It is not here anymore.
A cathedral.
Tikhonovskaya Street in winter.
Near the Drama Theater.
This is the map of our tour.
Location: Nizhny Novgorod
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I heard that old cities are naver change. but that was lie!
Fascinating to see how little some places have changed, and how others haven’t always changed for the better.
Very nice. Thank you for the post…
I’m kind of envious of the photographer who had the chance to do this! I wanted to do something similar with a building in Philadelphia that many many photos taken of 100 years ago, right after it was built. But life intervened and i never had the chance to do it on the anniversary dates of the original photos. But i still want to photograph that building from the same camera angles today. It’s one of the things on my bucket list.
better than National Geographic good pictures
Fantastic!
Museum-quality work!
What a wonderful treasure of history you have here…
I hope you are proud of this work.
Maxim Gorky’s birthplace.
Indeed. Hence the name of the City until the collapse.
Another great post. Good to see the people had the good sense to preserve most of the beautiful old buildings.
Looks mostly the same except where the Soviets destroyed churches and replaced them with God-awful concrete monstrosities.
Thank you!I live in Nizhni Novgorod
Beautiful city. People on black and white photos are like ghosts from the past.
Amazing, thank you so much