A gigantic map of all the cool plaques in the world. A project of 99% Invisible.

Pioneer tank and plane

In our school in the fall of 1941, an initiative was born to raise funds among Bor schoolchildren for a pioneer tank and plane

  • bor

Hero Minenko Leonid

In this house from 1966 to 2007 lived a participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel,Leonid Ivanovich MINENKO Honoured Test Pilot, Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod Region

  • nizhny novgorod
  • gorky
  • ussr

Clifford Neal Boone and Sondra Lee Boone

    Filippov Alexander Vasilievich

    Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Vasilievich Filippov lived in this house from April 5, 1961 to April 15, 1972

    • bor

    Rubinchik Ephim

    This is the building where he worked  from 1957 to 1985  RUBINCHIK  Efim Emanuilovich prominent party and economic figure of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labour, laureate of the Stalin Prize of the...

    • nizhny novgorod
    • ussr
    • gorky

    An outstanding geneticist Sergey Sergeevich Chetverikov

    Sergey Sergeevich Chetverikov 1800-1959, an outstanding geneticist, worked at Gorky University 1935-1948.

    • nizhny novgorod

    World-famous Russian photographer Andrei Karelin

    In this house in 1897-1906 years lived and worked world-famous photographer, artist, teacher, public figure Andrei Osipovich Karelin

    • nizhny novgorod
    • russian muse...

    Belarusian poet Maksim BOGDANOVICH

    In this building of the former Nizhny Novgorod gymnasium in 1902-1908 studied the outstanding Belarusian poet Maksim BOGDANOVICH

    • nizhny novgorod
    • minin university
    • maksim bogdanovich

    Luray Caverns

      Frederick Allen Hampton

      • fred hampton
      • black panthers