“Sunset Capital” is one of the city's main brands. The route starts on Gorky Square, and most of it runs along Fedorovsky Embankment, with a wonderful view of the confluence of the Oka and the Volga. See a ten-meter (33-foot) mosaic, visit an exquisite early-20th-century mansion and Russia's only monument to Jules Verne, and many more amazing places.
Gorky Square
⛲ Square · 📜 Historic site
Monument to the Nizhny Novgorod Marxists
🗿 Monument
Wedding Palace
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Internationalists Square
🌿 Public garden or park
“Victory” Mosaic
🔷 Mosaic
Friendship Alley
🗿 Monument · 🌿 Public garden or park
Pokhvalinsky Elevator
📜 Historic site
Jules Verne
🗿 Monument
Fedorovsky Embankment
🚶♂️ Waterfront · 📜 Historic site · 🔭 Viewpoint
Church of the Nativity
🕍 Place of worship · 🕵️ Urban legend · 🏟️ Architectural landmark
River Station
🚂 Railway station · 📜 Historic site
Point 2
🗿 Monument
In August 1893 Lenin had his first meeting with the Nizhny Novgorod Marxists in the annex of Nikanorov's hotel. In 1894 Vladimir Ilyich spent three days in Nizhny Novgorod illegally. At least four meetings are known. In 1969 it was decided to erect a monument to these meetings of Lenin on the site of the hotel. It was unveiled in 1971.
Sculptors: L. F. Kulakova and N. M. Chugurin. Architect: G. B. Shirokov. On the right side of a stele faced with white marble tiles is a bronze bas-relief showing Vladimir Lenin meeting the Nizhny Novgorod Marxists P. P. Skvortsov, M. G. Grigoriev, and others. Opposite it, an inscription in bronze letters and numbers reads: “To V. I. Lenin and the Nizhny Novgorod Marxists. 1893, 1894, 1900.”
Point on route “Chasing the Sunset”
Point 2
🗿 Monument
In August 1893 Lenin had his first meeting with the Nizhny Novgorod Marxists in the annex of Nikanorov's hotel. In 1894 Vladimir Ilyich spent three days in Nizhny Novgorod illegally. At least four meetings are known. In 1969 it was decided to erect a monument to these meetings of Lenin on the site of the hotel. It was unveiled in 1971.
Sculptors: L. F. Kulakova and N. M. Chugurin. Architect: G. B. Shirokov. On the right side of a stele faced with white marble tiles is a bronze bas-relief showing Vladimir Lenin meeting the Nizhny Novgorod Marxists P. P. Skvortsov, M. G. Grigoriev, and others. Opposite it, an inscription in bronze letters and numbers reads: “To V. I. Lenin and the Nizhny Novgorod Marxists. 1893, 1894, 1900.”
11 points
3 km
3 hours
