Volga RiverVolga RiverVolga RiverDeer SculptureDeer SculpturePechersky Ascension Monastery Pechersky Ascension Monastery is the principal monastery of the Nizhny Novgorod Eparchy and the seat of the Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas. It have been founded ca. 1328-1330 by St. Dionysius, who came to Nizhny Novgorod from Kiev Pechersk Lavra with several other monks, and dug for himself a cave on the step Volga shore some 3 km southeast of the city. Later on, he founded at that site a monastery with a church of Resurrection of the Lord. The monastery soon became an important spiritual and religious center of the Principality of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod.Nizhny Novgorod TV TowerNizhny Novgorod TV TowerNizhny Novgorod from the paragliding launch pad in Switzerland park.
