The Nizhniy Novgorod region

I am glad to welcome you in our famous and hospitable Nizhniy Novgorod region!!
      The Nizhniy Novgorod area is a beautiful place, the native land of the Nizhniy Novgorod home guard and golden khokhloma, spiritual and a business centre of the Volga region. The unique monuments of cultural and natural heritage, resorts of the area - the Gorki sea, Zeleniy Gorod - the combination of harmony, culture and nature will give . you a lot of impressions, will present you with strength and health, will force you to stop a little, forget about a modern rhythm of life, will inspire you on a new business. Wakening up of nature, trilling of the nightingale, you will see spring overflows of rivers and   rafting down the Kerzhenets river, the Pyana and the Vetluga.
      The Charm of two great rivers - the Volga and the Oka, will be discovered by you during thrilling cruises as well as unforgettable sunsets and dawns on the Volga river and the beginning of this beauty is here in Nizhniy Novgorod. To create you will feel the breadth of Russian spirit and skill and appreciate at the master-classes, at traditional festivals "City of potters", "Golden khokhloma", "The Brotherhood of national Masters", "the Hailstones Kitezh the oul of Russia" which are held in the towns in summer of the area - in Bogorodsk, Semenov, Gorodetz, on the bank of legendary lake Svetlojar.

      Nizhniy Novgorod was founded by Saint prince Jury Vsevolodovich. There are a lot of places of interest in the city and the region which are declared as spiritual sacred places by the Orthodox world. Thousands of pilgrims from all over the world come and go to the settlement of Diveevo every year in order to idolize the relic of Saint Serafim Sarovskiy who is buried in Svyato-Troizkiy Seraphimo - Diveevskiy monastery.
     Bolshoe Boldino is a small village in the south of the area - the surprising place which submits the unique poetic aura, leaves desire to come back here more and more time to fullfil charm and delight from participation in the phenomenon - the autumn of Boldino.
     Freshness of frosty day, prompt descents from mountain-skiing lines of various complexity and extent - all this on new mountain-skiing tourist centers.
     On a holiday, on a business trip, at your weekends - at any time of a year - welcome!

 The governor of Nizhniy Novgorod region,
 Valery Shantsev