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Composer Nesterov Arkady Alexandrovich

In this house from 1965 to 1999 lived and worked composer Nesterov Arkady Alexandrovich Professor, People's Artist of Russia, honorary citizen of Nizhny Novgorod. 

  • nizhny novgorod

Vladimir Lenin's father

Ilya Nikolayevich ULYANOV worked here in the building of the Nizhny Novgorod provincial gymnasium from 1863 to 1869 as a head teacher. Anna (1864) and Alexander (1866) Ulyanovs were born in the...

  • nizhny novgorod
  • minin university
  • ulyanov-lenin

Petrov Sergei Vitalievich

Guard Lieutenant Sergei Vitalievich Petrov studied at this school. He died in the line of military duty on October 18, 1989, while carrying out a special assignment from the command. For...

  • bor

Valsin House (CA. 1876)

Here Valsin Broussard, founder of what is now the City of Broussard, established his family home ca. 1876. This two-story, gallery-fronted, Anglo- American and French-style home housed...

  • louisiana
  • settler
  • broussard

Conductor Israel Borisovich Gusman

In this house from 1970 to 2003 lived an outstanding conductor and musical figure People's Artist of Russia Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod region Gusman Israel Borisovich

  • nizhny novgorod

Aviation technical school

Object of cultural heritage of regional significance Building of aviation technical school Built in 1938-1940s. Architect D.P. Silvanov An example of Soviet architecture of the period...

  • nizhny novgorod
  • gorky
  • soviet architecure

Grebenev Vasily Nikolaevich

In our school from 1961 to 1982, the commander of a partisan unit, Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation, Vasily Nikolaevich Grebenev (1918 - 1999) worked as director

  • bor

St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall

St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall1905According to a previous plaque, which has since been removed, this is the church building for African Americans who lived in the town of Blacksburg, in...

  • blackhistory
  • blacksburg
  • blacksburgva

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    The Quest: A Water Route to the Pacific Ocean

      A briliant Russian mathematician Alexander Mikhailovich LYAPUNOV

      Alexander Mikhailovich LYAPUNOV, a brilliant Russian mathematician and mechanic, the founder of the theory of steady motion, studied here at the Nizhny Novgorod provincial gymnasium from 1870 to 1876

      • nizhny novgorod
      • gorky
      • minin university

      Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques

        Stump Puller

          Robert E. Bush

            Russian mathematician professor Leonid Pavlovich Shilnikov

            Leonid Pavlovich Shilnikov 1934-2011  prominent russian mathematician professor at the university of nizhny Novgorod

            • nizhny novgorod