Old postcards Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

Construction of the stone Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin began in 1500, resumed in 1508 after a pause and was completed around 1515–1516. Its two-kilometre wall was reinforced with 13 towers, five of them gate towers and eight round blind ones, and the fortress was never surrendered to a besieging army. The 1985 set shows the kremlin in Gorky in the mid-1980s: towers, a cathedral, memorials and the descents to the Volga.

Several cards are given to the towers: the Kladovaya, Taynitskaya, Koromyslovaya, Chasovaya (seen from inside the kremlin wall) and the Nikolskaya above the Zelensky Descent. The Georgievskaya Tower appears with the monument to the pilot Valery Chkalov, next to which begins the Volga Staircase, opened in 1949.

Inside the walls stands the Archangel Cathedral, whose existing building went up in 1628–1631 in memory of the Nizhny Novgorod militia. Other cards show the obelisk to Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky erected in 1828, Minin and Pozharsky Square, Memorial Square with its Eternal Flame, the “Gorky Residents to the Front” weapons exhibition and Jubilee Boulevard.

Because the section keeps to a single subject, these Soviet postcards of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin read like one continuous walk along its walls.