"GRUZOVOZOFF" branch office in Nizhni Novgorod


Address:
2a Prospekt Busygina Str., 603086, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia


Telephone/Fax:
+7(8312) 57-64-64, 53-47-14


E-mail:
nnovgorod@gruzovozoff.ru


Open hours:
Monday - Friday: 9:00 - 19:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 16:00
Sunday: closed


Head of the branch office:
Dmitri Bronnikov

The Nizhni Novgorod Region covers an area of 74,8 thousand square kilometers and oversizes the territory of the present-day Belgium and The Netherlands (Holland) rolled into one. For many centuries the Region has been the political, economic and cultural center of Russia. The history of Nizhni Novgorod began in 1221. The city was founded by Grand Prince Yuri in 1221 at the confluence of two great rivers, the Volga and the Oka. Its main task was the protection of Russian boundaries against invasions of the Mordovians, the Tatars and the Cheremis. Nizhni Novgorod was located sunk the Ancient Town that had already existed in about four kilometers from the point of confluence of the Volga and Oka rivers and appeared in Chronicles till the beginning of the 17th century. This fact could determine the name of the new city - ‘Nizhni’. The new city's convenient location determined its destiny. After the Tatar invasion Nizhni Novgorod was multi-sited in the Russian annals as the spiritual stronghold of the Volga Region and slowly became the major political and economic center of the North-Eastern Russia. Since the end of the 15th century and for many years Nizhni Novgorod was the rampart of Moscow in the battle for the great river route. The stone Kremlin built at this time became an outstanding monument of the Russian art of fortification. The uniqueness of the Kremlin is its location. The Kremlin's walls descend, go up and begird the high (even by today's standards) hills. In 1816 the recently constructed trade fair was burnt down in the city of Makarev. The fair was transferred to Nizhni Novgorod, and the city image and life completely changed. The fair existed here during more than one century and was very important not only as an element of the Russian trade history and market formation, but as the biggest fair in the world. From the beginning of the 1930s the stage of the city's rapid industrial development began. The Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) was constructed in 17 months and started to work on January 1, 1932. Trucks GAZ-AA, vehicles GAZ-A and M-1, and after the Great Patriotic War GAZ-51, GAZ-63, GAZ-66, ‘Pobeda’ and ‘Volga’ cars appeared on the roads of Russia. At the same time many big industrial factories including the milling works were constructed. Today Nizhni Novgorod gains the status of a federal historical city. Its central part with its historical monuments is interesting for tourists. There are many wooden little houses (the typical sights of Russian cities removed from the front line during the Great Patriotic War), ornate villas and fragments of manors on the city's ancient streets. Historical dates: In 1221 the Vladimir Region Grand Prince Yury Vsevolodovitch founded the walled town of Novgorod. In 1350 Novgorod became the capital of the Nizhegorodsko-Suzdal Principality founded in 1341. In 1372 the construction of the stone Kremlin began. In 1392, under Vassily I, Nizhni Novgorod was incorporated into the Moscow Principality and became soon the strong point of Russian struggle against the Kazan Khanate. In 1506-11 under Vassily III the new stone Kremlin was built. In 1849 the Sormonovski shipyard started to work. In 1862 Nizhni Novgorod was connected with Moscow by the railway line. In 1929 Nizhni Novgorod became the regional center. In 1932 the Gorky Automobile Plant was constructed. Nizhny Novgorod was Maxim Gorky's (writer A.M. Pechkov leaved in 1868-1936) native city and was renamed Gorky after him. In 1991 the city received its historical name of Nizhni Novgorod again.