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    Operation Children 1972

    In our school in 1972, a search began for participants in Operation Children, organized by the partisans of the Smolensk region in the summer of 1942

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    Historic Bollard

      Church of St John the Evangelist was here

      On this place stood a church in the name of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian at the city orphanage named after Countess O.V. Kutaisova. It was built in 1903 according to...

      • nizhny novgorod
      • gorky
      • church

      1984 Birthplace of Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

        Chuprova Olimpiada Ivanovna

        The hero of socialist labor, primary school teacher Olimpiada Ivanovna Chuprova, worked in this school

          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. 

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          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...

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          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...

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          • 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

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          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...

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          • blacksburg
          • blacksburgva

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