Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod was a Russian city at the junction of the Oka and Volga. In 1337 Ivan I Kalita, grand prince of Vladimir, held the city.
Konstantin of Suzdal secured it in 1341 and moved his seat there in 1350, founding the rival grand principality of Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal. The Golden Horde defeated its army on the Pyana in 1377, and Moscow annexed it in 1392. In 1612 Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky raised a militia there to liberate Moscow.