Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

The escape of the Devyatayev group was the escape of a group of ten Soviet prisoners of war led by fighter pilot M. P. Devyatayev on a captured German Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft on February 8, 1945 from a German concentration camp at the Peenemünde training ground.

Wikipedia: Побег группы Девятаева (RU)

The BTR-70 is an eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier originally developed by the Soviet Union during the late 1960s under the manufacturing code GAZ-4905. On August 21, 1972, it was accepted into Soviet service and would later be widely exported. Large quantities were also produced under license in Romania as the TAB-77.

Wikipedia: BTR-70 (EN)

The BRDM-2 is an amphibious armoured scout car designed and developed in the Soviet Union. It was also known under the designations BTR-40PB, BTR-40P-2 and GAZ 41-08. This vehicle, like many other Soviet designs, has been exported extensively and is in use in at least 38 countries. It was intended to replace the older BRDM-1, and has improved amphibious capabilities and better armament compared to its predecessor. The BRDM-2 production continues in Poland as of 2022.

Wikipedia: BRDM-2 (EN)

The BMP-1 is a Soviet amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle that has been in service from 1966 to the present. BMP stands for Boyevaya Mashina Pyekhoty 1, meaning "infantry fighting vehicle, 1st serial model". The BMP-1 was the first mass-produced infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) of the Soviet Union. It was called the M-1967, BMP and BMP-76PB by NATO before its correct designation was known.

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UR-67 is a Soviet demining installation. It was created on the basis of the BTR-50PK amphibious armored personnel carrier. It was put into service in 1968. In 1978, instead of the UR-67, the production of next-generation UR-77 demining installations was established. Currently, there are no UR-67s in the troops of the Russian Armed Forces.

Wikipedia: УР-67 (RU)

T-34-85 is the military designation of the last mass modification of the Soviet T-34 medium tank with an 85-mm gun.

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Vasily Filippovich Margelov was a Red Army General who was the commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) from 1954 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1979. Margelov modernized the VDV and was a Hero of the Soviet Union.

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The BTR-80 is an 8×8 wheeled amphibious armoured personnel carrier (APC) designed in the Soviet Union. It was adopted in 1985 and replaced the previous vehicles, the BTR-60 and BTR-70, in the Soviet Army. It was first deployed during the Soviet–Afghan War.

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The T-10 was a Soviet heavy tank of the Cold War, the final development of the IS tank series. During development, it was called Object 730. It was accepted into production in 1953 as the IS-8, but due to the political climate in the wake of Stalin's death in 1953, it was renamed T-10.

Wikipedia: T-10 tank (EN)

The Museum of the River Fleet of the Volga State University of Water Transport is a museum covering the history of navigation on the Volga. It is located in the VSUWT building at the address: Nizhny Novgorod, Nesterova Street, 5.

Wikipedia: Музей речного флота Волжской государственной академии водного транспорта (RU)

Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory was the first Soviet science laboratory in the field of radio electronics. It was based in 1918 in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1928, the laboratory was reorganized and moved into the Central Radio Laboratory in Leningrad.

Wikipedia: Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory (EN), Website

The 85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K) was an 85 mm (3.3 in) Soviet anti-aircraft gun, developed under guidance of leading Soviet designers M. N. Loginov and G. D. Dorokhin. This gun was successfully used throughout the Second World War against level bombers and other high- and medium-altitude targets. In emergencies they were utilized as powerful anti-tank weapons. The barrel of the 52-K was the basis for the family of 85-mm Soviet tank guns. After the war some 52-Ks were refitted for peaceful purposes as anti-avalanche guns in mountainous terrain.

Wikipedia: 85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K) (EN)

T-34-85 is the military designation of the last mass modification of the Soviet T-34 medium tank with an 85-mm gun.

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The ZiS-2 is a Soviet 57 mm anti-tank gun used during World War II. The ZiS-4 is a version of the gun that was meant to be installed in tanks. ZiS stands for Zavod imeni Stalina, the official title of Artillery Factory No. 92, which produced the gun first.

Wikipedia: 57 mm anti-tank gun M1943 (ZiS-2) (EN)

The 76-mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3) was a Soviet 76.2 mm divisional field gun used during World War II. ZiS was a factory designation and stood for Zavod imeni Stalina, the honorific title of Artillery Factory No. 92, which first constructed this gun.

Wikipedia: 76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3) (EN)

The GAZ-67 and the GAZ-67B were general-purpose four-wheel drive Soviet military vehicles built by GAZ starting in 1943. By the end of the war, it was the Soviet equivalent of the World War II jeep.

Wikipedia: GAZ-67 (EN)

The SU-76 was a Soviet light self-propelled gun used during and after World War II. The SU-76 was based on a lengthened version of the T-70 light tank chassis and armed with the ZIS-3 mod. 1942 76-mm divisional field gun. Developed under the leadership of chief designer S.A. Ginzburg (1900–1943). Its quite simple construction and multipurpose combat role made it the second most produced Soviet armored fighting vehicle of World War II, after the T-34 medium tank.

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The BA-64 was a Soviet four-wheeled armoured scout car. Built on the chassis of a GAZ-64 or GAZ-67 jeep, it incorporated a hull loosely modeled after that of the Sd.Kfz. 221. The BA-64 was developed between July and November 1941 to replace the BA-20 then in service with armoured car units of the Red Army. Cheap and exceptionally reliable, it would later become the most common Soviet wheeled armoured fighting vehicle to enter service during World War II, with over 9,000 being manufactured before production ended.

Wikipedia: BA-64 (EN)

The BM-13 is a Soviet combat vehicle of rocket artillery of the Second World War, the most massive Soviet combat vehicle (BM) of this class. Most commonly known by the popular nickname "Katyusha", the soldiers of Nazi Germany called it "Stalin's organ" because of the sound emitted by the plumage of the rockets.

Wikipedia: БМ-13 (RU)

S-13 was an S-class submarine of the Soviet Navy. Her keel was laid down by Krasnoye Sormovo in Gorky on 19 October 1938. She was launched on 25 April 1939 and commissioned on 31 July 1941 in the Baltic Fleet, under the command of Captain Pyotr Malanchenko. The submarine is best known for the 1945 sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff, a German military transport ship/converted cruise ship. With a career total of 44,701 GRT sunk or damaged, she is the highest-scoring Soviet submarine in history.

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The monument to N. A. Dobrolyubov is located in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, in the square on Teatralnaya Square, on the right side of the building of the Academic Drama Theater. Here nearby was the house in which the literary critic and publicist N. A. Dobrolyubov (1836-1861) was born.

Wikipedia: Памятник Н. А. Добролюбову (Нижний Новгород) (RU)

The Russian Museum of Photography in Nizhny Novgorod is a state budgetary institution of culture in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The museum has an extensive collection of photographic equipment, photographic literature, photographs of the XIX-XX centuries. The Russian Museum of Photography hosts such significant photo events of Russian and international scale as the Volga Biennale, the Svetopis, as well as the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Festival of Photography. In 2007-2010, the annual Russian Photographic Festival of Youth was held here.

Wikipedia: Русский музей фотографии (RU), Website

The monument to Y. M. Sverdlov in Nizhny Novgorod is located in the park at the corner of Bolshaya Pokrovskaya and Oktyabrskaya streets. The opening of the monument took place on November 5, 1957 by sculptors P. I. Gusev and N. M. Chugurin, architect V. N. Rymarenko.

Wikipedia: Памятник Я. М. Свердлову (Нижний Новгород) (RU)

Peter's House in Nizhny Novgorod is a landmark in the center of Nizhny Novgorod, located on modern Pochainskaya Street.

Wikipedia: Домик Петра I (Нижний Новгород) (RU)

Kashirin's House is a museum located in Nizhny Novgorod, Postal Congress, 21, in the house of M. Gorky's maternal grandfather (A. M. Peshkov). An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance.

Wikipedia: Домик Каширина (RU)