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- Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), VII, pp. 253-254: "Nowogród" #2.
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str. Gruzinskaya, 5-а. 603000, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Tel./Fax: +7 [831] 434-49-07, 434-40-50
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Synagogue: Centrally located Nizhny Novgorod Synagogue was built in 1881-1883 and not used during the Soviet era, it was renovated and reopened ca. 1991. 5a Gruzinskaya Street. [Apr 2014]h
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Grave-robber kept 29 bodies at home [Apr 2014].
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CEMETERY:
Marina Roscha Cemetery
gravestones with names and photos. [Apr 2014]
May 2008 vandalism. "According to Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shimon Bergman, the city's chief rabbi, one of the tombstones that had been overturned was that of Rabbi Yehuda Bershtein, chief rabbi of Nizhny Novgorod during the 1950s. Several other tombstones were smashed. Bergman added that local authorities were investigating the case, but had not made any arrests. The central Russian city is the country's fourth-largest and sits at the confluence of the Oka and Volga Rivers. Its Jewish community dates back to 1840, when retired Jewish soldiers began to settle in the growing industrial town. A member of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, the community today operates an Ohr Avner Chabad Day School, a Jewish cultural center, a mikvah, soup kitchen, synagogue, yeshiva and several youth groups. From Chabad.org News [Apr 2014] Videotaped.
May 2009" 14 graves in the Nizhny Novgorod Jewish cemetery of "Maryina Roshcha were desecrated. .
Ol'gino Cemetery:
gravestones with names and photos [Apr 2014]
Fedyakovo Cemetery: (located in Fedyakovo, a southern suburb on the road to Kazan).
gravestones with names and photos [Apr 2014]
Old Novinsk Cemetery:
gravestones with names and photos and dates [Apr 2014]
gravestones with names and photos [Apr 2014]
- 7,293 burials without a cemetery specified but with photos. [Apr 2014[