The view of Strelka and Rozhdestvenskaya str, Nizhny Novgorod

Postcard ID: RU-3003712
Country: Russia

From the first sight on this card I understood - this is from Russia. And was right. However I had to google to define the name of the city from the card. It wasn't difficult, but interesting :)

Nizhny Novgorod is, with a population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia and the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. From 1932 to 1990, it was known as Gorky, after the writer Maxim Gorky who was born there. The city is an important economic, transportation and cultural center of Russia and the vast Volga-Vyatka economic region.

Much of the city downtown is built in the Russian Revival and Stalin Empire styles. The dominating feature of the city skyline is the grand Kremlin (1500–1511), with its red-brick towers. After Bolshevik devastation, the only ancient edifice left within the kremlin walls is the tent-like Archangel Cathedral (1624–31), first built in stone in the 13th century.