Регионоведение и краеведение

Alexander Vasilyevich Stupin was born in 1776 in Arsamas N.N. region.

When a boy he studied iconography for 3 years from 1787 to1790. Simultaneously, he attended National School to learn literacy. Then for some time the young man worked drawing icons.

In 1797 Stupin opened his own workshop in NN which gave him good money. Then Alexander understood that he needed to have professional education to become a real artist.

In1800 Stupin left his family and went to St. Petersburg and entered Academy of Arts. Being a first-year student he got a silver medal for his drawing from nature. His teachers were such great masters of that time as A.E. Egorov and I.A. Akimov. They taught Alexander drawing and  the theory of art.

In 1805 Alexander Vasilyevich graduated from the Academy with the second degree certificate and returned to Arsamas. There Alexander Vasilyevich Stupin opened a drawing school which was the first private drawing school of such kind.

The first nine students were all serfs. The landlords wanted to have painters in their household staff who could paint family portraits that became fashionable in the early nineteenth century, make copies of already famous masterpieces of European art, and decorate the halls of  their mansions.

In 1805, Alexander received a large contract. He contracted to paint a Church in the village of Katunki, Balakhninsky uyezd .Two summers (1805-1806) Stupin went there  with his family and students. There ninety paintings on biblical and Evangelical subjects were painted.. Landowners and merchants from neighboring counties and from Nizhny Novgorod specially came to Katunki to admire the works of the Arzamas artist. 

Very quickly his school gained great popularity and attracted a lot of pupils. The work of the school was a success.

In 1809 Stupin asked Academy of Arts to take patronage of his school showing excellent works of his students. His request was accepted and Stupin was awarded the title of academician. The academy sent him plaster for copying  and silver medals for the best students. Stupin in his turn sent reports about his school and works of the best students.

The years went by. Students of the Arzamas school almost every year received medals of various denominations at competitive reviews at the Academy of arts, and those who graduated from a provincial school received worthy positions as drawing teachers in educational institutions.

First Alexander Vasilyevich was  both the school headmaster and an art teacher. But in1836 his  former student and son –in-law N.Alekseev became the school  head master. In 1842 the school was terribly damaged by the fire. In 1845 Alexander Vasilyevich Stupin was awarded the order of St. Vladimir of the 4th class

Stupin’s School existed 45 years. A lot of outstanding artists were taught there such as V/ Perov, E. Krendovsky, N.Alekseev, I. Gorbunov and others. But unfortunately, after  Stupin’s death in 1861 the school was closed.

The most famous Stupin’s pictures are «A Boy with a leaf», and the portrait of E.M.Stupina. Also he liked to depict his native place in his pictures.

Alexander Vasilyevich Stupin contributed a lot  to the development of painting of N/N/ region.

His art school released and raised  not only  talented artists but also gifted art teachers who contributed to the spread of the love of drawing and artistic knowledge in our region.

Nizhniy Novgorod Metro

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Do you know what Metro means? It’s a kind of underground transport when you travel in a train in tunnels under ground. It’s very convenient and quick.

When we ask our classmates about N.N. metro they said they knew that there is Metro in N/N. Some of them  even used it. But they don’t know much about its history. So we found out some facts and now we’ll tell you about them.

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Metro in Nizhny Novgorod was opened in 1985-the third after Moscow (1935) and St. Petersburg (1955).  The length of our subway is 22.2 kilometers. Now it has 15 stations.

The history of NN underground began in October 1973.

Its construction started on the 17th of  December 1977. On that day the first piles were put at the “Leninskaya” station.

In September1978 the building of the tunnels from “Leninskaya” station began.

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The development of the project documentation, the demolition of houses and transferring of roads and tram tracks took a lot of time. In 1979 the construction works began in “Moskovskaya” station.

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On July 13, 1984 the wall in the excavation of ”Moskovskaya” station hit and two workers from the student team that helped in the construction of the subway were killed. There is a legend associated with this accident, as if the ghosts of the dead students still walk through the tunnels and Metro stations.

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The Grand opening of the Gorky metro took place on November 20, 1985. The first underground line had six stations and was 7.8 km long.

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The Gorky Metro grew very quickly and by 1991 it had 10 stations. In 1990 Gorky was renamed Nizhny Novgorod and the Metro also got its name.

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On the20-th of December 1993  two new-built stations “Kanavinskaya” and “Burnakovskaya” were opened. They were the starting point of a new line called “Sormovsko-Mesherskaya”

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Then there was a long pause in the Metro construction. It was stopped because of the lack of funds.

Almost 10 years passed and in 2002 the 13-th station “Burevestnik’ was opened in “Sormovsko-Mesherskaya” line.

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But the period of stagnation was not over. The deficit in the budget of N. N. didn’t allow the further Metro building.  It suffered great losses from low passenger traffic because of absence of Metro stations in the Upper part of the city. So less and less citizens used it.

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In 2009, a metro bridge across the Oka was built. A year earlier metrobuilders started construction of a new metro station "Gorkovskaya".

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And on November 4, 2012 the Grand opening of the first metro station—"Gorkovskaya"  in the Upper part of the city took place. Thus, both banks of the city were connected to each other, which increased passenger traffic by 75 %.

 On November 4, 2013, the Day of National Unity, the metro transported about 68 thousand people.

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Nizhny Novgorod metro works from 5 am to 12 am. And at 00: 00 (maximum 20 minutes later) all stations are closed. The tickets price is 28 rubles per a trip.

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Of course, the decoration of our underground is not so beautiful as in Moscow metro, but the panels at the stations "Proletarian", " Gorkovskaya ", " Moskovskaya " and "Engine of the revolution" are rather beautiful. There are also trains with names in the Nizhny Novgorod underground:  ”Pioneer”, “ Kuzma Minin”, “ 70 years of  War Victory”, “30 years of the Nizhny Novgorod metro”.

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We can see our station "Moskovskaya" in Yegor Konchalovsky’s film «Escape» where the leading parts were played by Evgeny Mironov and Alexey Serebryakov.

The film was shot in 2004.

Scenes from the film "About football" were also shot in our metro at the station "Park of culture"

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"Strelka" is the 15th station of the Nizhny Novgorod metro. It was built just before the World Football Championship in Russia. The Opening Ceremony of the station was held on 12 June 2018. Since June 13, 2018, the station has been working regularly. It is the first station where the signs are written in English.

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June 23, 2018 metro began to speak English. The changes are aimed to create a comfortable environment for foreign visitors and improve the culture of passenger service of the Nizhny Novgorod metro.

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There are a lot of plans about N. N. metro in the future. Now the most promising plan is considered to continue Avtozavodskaya metro line from the station " Gorkovskaya "to the station" Opera house "and "Sennaya Square". The development of the metro in the Upper part of the city has already proved its effectiveness from an economic point of view.

Taking into consideration the great traffic jams on the roads of Sormovo district, it is planned to extend the metro to the "Center of Sormovo" and further to the street of Gaugel. However, this is a very far prospect.

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N.N.Metro plays an important role in the life of the city. How will N. N. Metro be developing in the future years?

 Let’s live and see.