The economic crisis in Russia has implications reaching far beyond Moscow, St Petersburg and Novgorod.
"People in Novgorod are finally waking up, just like they are in Moscow, " Nadezhda said.
In addition, production will start this year at a newly acquired particle-board plant in Novgorod, Russia.
Unlike its parvenu neighbour, St Petersburg, Novgorod city is of manageable size, and tightly run.
Eight hours and 20 minutes after leaving the Russian capital, train 42 finally eased into Novgorod station.
It might seem fanciful to argue for much real continuity between Novgorod's medieval traditions and its modern resurgence.
The Nizhny Novgorod branch is one of four major STC Atlas research facilities.
It opened instead in mid-winter in 1974 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), where it was conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
Mr Prusak insists politely that no Novgorod model should be imposed across Russia.
Kaskol's Sokol plant, based in Nizhni Novgorod, has been refurbished and is now selling MiG upgrades to India and Africa.
In the city of Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow, Nikita Nomerz is famous among street artists for literally giving a new face to derelict buildings.
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Also leave time for ancient Novgorod , home to an impressive kremlin, the Byzantine Cathedral of St Sophia and the riverside Yurev Monastery.
Five years ago, near her home in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod (400 kilometers northeast of Moscow), she ran akiosk selling chewing gum, cigarettes and candies.
However, the faculty listing for the Center includes one individual who is also an employee of the Nizhny Novgorod Branch of Scientific Technical Center (STC) Atlas.
In May, the American government said Novgorod would be a main beneficiary of its Russian aid, now being redesigned to focus on a few promising regions.
The trend-setting region has been Nizhny Novgorod, where the International Finance Corporation, an arm of the World Bank, has been helping collective farms break up amicably and efficiently.
But the main author of Novgorod's revival has been its regional governor, Mikhail Prusak, 37, the youngest governor in Russia when first appointed by Boris Yeltsin in 1991.
Add on another week if you plan on visiting the Golden Ring towns, the palaces around St Petersburg, and Novgorod, where it's best to stay at least one night.
Near her home in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod (250 miles northeast of Moscow), she ran akiosk near the bus stop selling chewing gum, cigarettes and candies when she was 25.
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