1. Vlasov's army was once again surrounded between Novgorod and Gruzino; and the spring thaw turned the forest into a swamp.

2. Born in Gorky (now Nizhni Novgorod), Russia's third largest city, she lived with her mother and two half-sisters in unpleasant conditions.

3. Nizhny Novgorod has been particularly badly hit by the deadly wildfires that have swept across European Russia in the past 10 days.

4. But in Nizhny Novgorod grain is still trading at high prices, forcing some small farmers to slaughter livestock.

5. Rachmaninov was born in Semyonovo, near Novgorod in north-western Russia, into a noble family of Tatar descent, who had been in the service of the Russian tsars since the 16th century.

6. NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia, May 11 (Reuters) - The gates of a grey car factory in central Russia creak open, releasing hundreds of workers into the bright spring sunshine.

7. The monastery "Rdeyskiy" is situated in the Novgorod region. There is Rdeyskiy National Park, with Rdeysky Lake and Rdeysky Swamp.

8. Born in Nizhni Novgorod in 1987, Igor Levit began playing the piano when he was three years old.

9. Nizhny Novgorod, home of the GAZ auto group that makes the Volga saloon car, is a city of about 1.3 million around 400 km (250 miles) east of Moscow.

10. The architectural style of the region was derived partly from Kiev but was also influenced by Novgorod and by Western Byzantine culture.

11. Gavrilova returned one day from a seminar in Nizhny Novgorod and decided on no-nonsense measures.

12. Farmers at Larsha have taken steps to protect against fires that break out in forests and peat bogs every year in Nizhny Novgorod.

13. The stronghold in its present look was built in 1280. The citizens of Novgorod handed it over to the son of Alexander Nevsky – prince Dmitry.

14. Fire fighters were battling at the weekend to douse fires in the north of the region that cloaked the town of Nizhny Novgorod, the regional capital, in smoke.

15. This 60-year old man is a hermit living in a thick forest somewhere in the Novgorod Region.

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16. There was the simple excitement of arriving at places like Nizhny Novgorod and wondering what they were like.

17. In an official statement, GAZ said it would be responsible for manufacturing Opel passenger cars at its Nizhny Novgorod plant.

18. Under a blazing sun, farmers were digging trenches in Nizhny Novgorod on Sunday to stop wildfires in nearby forests and peat bogs from advancing on their land.

19. Primary centres of armoured equipment production became the locomotive- and wagon-building factories as well as automobile factories at Nizhnij Novgorod, Kolomna, Brjansk, Petrograd and Moskva.

20. This 60-year old man is a hermit living in a thick forest somewhere in the Novgorod Region. What made him (and all such people) choose this way of life?

21. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso made the joint announcement Friday following a two-day Russia-EU summit in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod.

22. After a year, he already played his first solo concert and when he was six years old, he played with the Philharmonic Orchestra in Nizhni Novgorod.

23. You can unite the forces of Russian princedoms and give battle to the Horde, or gather the Novgorod militia and warmly greet the Order knights on the ice and snow of the northern lands.

24. Polystovo-Lovatskaya swamp system is the biggest swamp in whole Europe which is located just 100 km away from the border with EU countries, between Pskov and Novgorod regions.

25. 24In this photo taken on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 a forest fire spreads near the village of Verkhnyaya Vereya in Nizhny Novgorod region.