online showcase of creative products in nizhny novgorod

IT Marketplace is an import substitution platform that brings together business, government, and the IT sector to create domestic digital products. The platform is a registry of software and digital equipment required for import substitution.

With its help, Russian businesses are able to replace inaccessible foreign software with domestic IT solutions, and IT companies are able to find new customers and promising projects. The website is user-friendly and intuitive, and the software is regularly updated. At the moment, IT Marketplace is unique on the Russian market. The development of the project was supervised by Gorky AI.

The Institute was founded in 2018 and is involved in all areas of urban environment — here they conduct studies of cities and analyze data, work on the improvement of public areas and redevelopment, hold meetings and discussions of urban topics, interact with the expert community and oversee infrastructure programs.

The Institute team forms new quality standards and approaches in environmental design, outlines strategies and implements development concepts, stimulates and encourages citizens to interact with experts, administrations, various agencies and businesses in urban projects.

KICHKA is a clothing brand founded by designer Nadya Andrianova in 2019. Folk costumes, typical of the Nizhny Novgorod region, make up the DNA of the brand. Each collection reinvents individual elements, such as rubakhas - traditional Russian shirts, or the sarafan dresses. The brand offers three major clothing lines. OKO is the basic line that explores and reinterprets traditional folk cut. Clothes are either available in different sizes or in single pieces. ZERO is a difusion line of basic unisex cloting inspired by the ties between local traditions and other cultures. OKROMYA is a line of one-off upcycled items, distinguished by a traditional cut, natural materials, clear silhouettes.

In addition to the Russian name, the brand also names its models in a very Russian way - Kaftan tops, Telogreika jackets, Fekla blouses, Portki pants. The mission of the KÍCHKA brand is to allow people to wear modern designer clothes that would combine folk motifs and contemporary style.

KSI KSI is a premium knitwear brand. Designer prints and combinations of knitting techniques are what makes the brand stand out. With each season, the brand expands its clothing line, staying true to the principles and its own DNA.

The brand offers a wide range of clothes, from basic jumpers, laconic dresses and suits to fashionable crop tops, ripped jumpers, cardigans with designer's prints and feathers.

Kasin is a musical duo. Being in the underground music industry, the duo puts their expertise to work, experimenting with genres, themes, instruments, lyrics, and tones. Kasin has a strong focus on sound as a listener’s space, experimentation and a love of classical harmony.

So far, they shared the stage with a number of bands, such as Parks, Squares and Alleys, Wooden Whales, Papyllon, Tvoe Daleko. Horovod is the debut album of the duo. It is an endless tale of fear of reflection and escape from everyday life.

Filigree is one of the oldest varieties of jewelry technique, which involves intricate weaving patterns of twisted wire with small metal balls. Kazakovsky enterprise of artistic metal products is a manufacturer of filigree products located in the village of Kazakovo, Nizhny Novgorod region. Jewelry and decorative items made there are distinguished by the purity of lines and exquisite subtlety of execution of even the smallest elements.

The enterprise offers a wide range of corporate gifts, tableware, household items, cups, religious items and jewelry. Each product is handmade, Russian folk patterns and works of artists are used for motifs. A variety of filigree patterns is used in the production. To fasten the pieces into a piece, the filigree ornament is sprinkled with silver solder and soldered. An oxide film is applied to give an antique silver color.

Khokhloma Painting is the largest manufacturer of folk art crafts in Russia, one of the most recognizable Russian brands. The factory is located in the city of Semenov in the Nizhny Novgorod region. It has a total of 604 employees, 340 craftsmen, including 25 honored artists and craftsmen of the Russian Federation. Around 20 all-Russian and international exhibitions are held there every year. The famous matryoshkas with Khokhloma motifs, tableware, furniture, souvenirs and gifts can be found in a catalog of more than 2,000 items produced by the factory.

All products are made according to the old Russian tradition using modern equipment and technologies. They are made of hardwood, go through 7 stages of complex production, hand-painted and have a certificate of conformity. Khokhloma painting is characterized by the distinctive technique of painting wood in gold color without the use of gold, some of the techniques of manufacture are borrowed from iconography.

Khrupkie Mechty (Fragile Dreams) is a unique space in Nizhny Novgorod that houses a collection of dolls from the eminent Hildegard Günzel. It was founded in 2018 by philanthropist Olga Lobacheva. The exhibition presents dolls made in limited edition. It also features some original copies, particulary valuable. There are even dolls that exist in a single copy and are made exclusively for this collection.

Günzel dolls look lifelike: they have glowing beautiful faces, intelligent eyes, real soft hair. They wear exquisite outfits made of expensive fabrics with handmade lace and custom-made jewelry. Günzel is the only one who uses completely white porcelain of unique composition, and then tints it by hand, which gives the dolls a hyper-realistic look. Khrupkie Mechty is world’s largest gallery of doll by Hildegard Günzel.