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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...

Scott, Erica, Olivia, & Nathan Andersen

    Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain

    Submitted by @Ritterton.

      Jack Metcalf Terminal

        Sandstone Ranch

          Sandstone Ranch Under the Sea

            First Bicycle Lanes In Davis

              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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