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Nizhny Novgorod Fair

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Nizhny Novgorod Fair (old name — Makaryev Fair) () was a fair in Nizhny Novgorod held annually every July near Makaryev Monastery on the left bank of the Volga River from the mid-16th century to 1816. Following a massive fire in 1816, it was moved to Nizhny Novgorod, but for some decades thereafter it still was commonly referred to Read more on Wikipedia

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