Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin - a fortress in Nizhny Novgorod , the historic city center , a stone belt covering the top of the mountainous cape and lying on the ledges of the Volga slope .
In the Kremlin there were a lot of churches, but at the moment is preserved only Michael the Archangel Cathedral, built no later than the middle of the XVI century and rebuilt in 1628-1631 years . - The oldest surviving buildings in the Kremlin . The cathedral is the tomb of Kozma Minin.
At the end of XVIII century in the center of the Kremlin was divided into square festivities ( parade ). On the square were erected housing the government offices (1782-1785) , the Palace , Vice -Governor (1786-1788) and the garrison house ( 1791-1801 ).
In 1828, in front of the cathedral's been an obelisk was erected in honor of Minin and Pozharsky (architect AIMillers and Ivan Martos ).
In 1837-1841 he was the military governor built a house , now houses a Museum of Art , in the years 1840-1843 at the direction of Nicholas I, was built Arsenal.
In the late 19th century. the All-Russia industrial and art exhibition 1896two were built funicular railway , dubbed the Kremlin and Pohvalinsky in town to call them elevators.
In 1931, in place of the Transfiguration Cathedral was built by the House of Soviets . The building is in the style of constructivism and the top like an airplane. Now the building is City Council .
In 1965, near the obelisk K.Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky was lit an eternal flame and a memorial complex in honor of gorkovchan who died in World War II.
From 1928 to 1968 in the Kremlin in a former tram depot was an arena .
Head of Shantsev said that the Kremlin initiates the transfer of federal property in the regional . Inside the Kremlin's plan to build a Government House will be restored Manege, funicular , the site of temples that were destroyed during the Soviet era , will be installed memorials.
In addition , we plan to restore the tower and Zachatievsky part of the fortress wall .
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