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| City telephone code - 7 (8312) | Time Zone - GMT + 3 |
| Nizhny Novgorod, 400 km east of Moscow, the third largest (after the capital and Saint-Petersburg) city in Russia with a million and a half people live in. Nizhny Novgorod is wonderfully original ancient center of Volga region: it was founded at the beginning of the XIII century at the confluence of two big rivers - the Volga and the Oka. A sign of an ancient city of Russia is the Kremlin on the high Volga bank where is burning the eternal fire in memory of the fallen soldiers of the Second Word War. The city of Nizhny Novgorod preserved many unique historical, architectural and cultural monuments that gave base for UNESCO to include Nizhny Novgorod into the list of the 100 cities of the world, representing the world historical and cultural value. | click here to see the map of Nizhny Novgorod |
