Tour around Dzerzhinsk

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TOUR AROUND DZERZHINSK

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Dzerzhinsk is a city 35 km West of Nizhny Novgorod. It is the
second largest and largest by area in the Nizhny Novgorod
region. Despite its chemical past, present, and possibly future,
and its damaged reputation, I like the city. In the first place
because of the architecture

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DZERZHINSKIY SQUARE
Dzerzhinskiy Square, where the monument of the same name is
located, the architectural frame of which consists of two
buildings built in the 50s

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CINEMA „DRUMMER”
The building of the cinema «Drummer». In the 90’s it was
rebuilt into the best night club in the city at that time.

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PALACE OF CULTURE OF CHEMISTS.
In 1959 in Dzerzhinsk there was a building with snow-white
columns, made in the best traditions of classicism – the Palace
of culture of chemists.

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DZERZHINSK PUPPET THEATER
The theater was founded in 1988, the main Director was
Vladimir Kazachenko, at that time — Honored artist of the
Republic of Mordovia. The puppet theater settled in the
building of the old drama theater, after its reconstruction.
Dzerzhinsk puppet theater is known far beyond the Nizhny
Novgorod region.

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CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION.
The Church was built in 1878 with the money of the merchant of
the first Guild Stepan Petrovich Solin. It was consecrated in
1879.