And above, a newly renovated Orthodox church near the harbor, originally built by the Stroganov family. Until about thirty years ago, these pictures might have been illicit goods-- Nizhny was a "closed city" for most of the Soviet period, where foreigners were not permitted. Even selling street maps was outlawed until the mid-seventies, purportedly to protect the military research facilities then located there. The city wasn't officially opened until after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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