On Sept. 20, 1862 in Veliky Novgorod, the monument, "Millennium of Russia," was unvieled in the presence of Emperor Alexander II and his family. It was the first monument dedicated to the Russian ...

French journalist and explorer Erwann Pensec spent one year in Nizhny Novgorod and said it was the best year of his life. “The city is very calm even in the center and people are very friendly there, ...

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of essays profiling all of the cities set to host World Cup games this summer. Eliot Rothwell visited every venue to get a sense of how preparations were ...

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia – It's hard to fathom for 21-year-old Valeria Kashnikova as she delivers pizzas to tables jammed with Swedes, Croats, and Argentines that her Russian city was closed to ...

BALTIMORE — Novgorod, a medieval city-state in what is now Russia, was in many ways ahead of its time. Bisected by a river that was part of the trade route to Constantinople, and accessible to Western ...

A video shared on social media showed a blaze in a Russian city that reportedly started after fuel tanks caught fire. The blaze broke out on Wednesday in an industrial zone of Nizhny Novgorod, which ...

Our present day image of Russia is largely colored by its Soviet history: from Cold War nuclear arms race to Gorbachev’s Glasnost and Perestroika; the fall of the communist union in 1991 and Vladimir ...

Divided by the river Volga, the western Russian city is home to a secret museum of wooden architecture, an ‘exotic’ commuter cable car, lilac-scented wind and flight of stairs so long it’s almost ...

As the city of Nizhny Novgorod prepares to welcome an army of English fans to town, plenty of its residents are casting their minds back to a distant sunny afternoon in June. It was 1993 when a ...