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PAVEL RYABININ is a clothing brand that creates modern, feminine and business outfits, all made in Russia. What makes it so special is that it promotes Russian culture and traditions. The brand’s philosophy can be defined as "a woman should always remain a woman in every sense of the word, including in the choice of clothes." This idea is reflected in the choice of fabrics, prints, and the design process.

In addition to clothing, the brand makes such traditional Russian accessories as shawls, scarves, head scarves. The brand continues to develop the rich traditions of Nizhny Novgorod embroidery on clothing. It offers a wide range of skirts, blouses, dresses, trousers, accessories with Nizhny Novgorod embroidery. The decor of the embroidery is in a rich color palette and executed in a manner reminiscent of the embroidery traditions of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Packhouses is a cultural center at Strelka, located at the confluence of the Oka and Volga rivers in Nizhny Novgorod. The openwork structures used to be a part of the Main Pavilion of the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1896. Today, this historic landmark continues to live on as a cultural center with a 426-seat concert hall and an art gallery. The new cultural cluster was designed by SPEECH Architectural Bureau.

A glass panoramic wall overlooking Strelka and the historic part of the city makes this concert hall stand out. The concert hall has a reverberation time of 2 seconds which makes for a great sound. Packhouses won the "Creative Space of the Year" category at the Russian Creative Awards and the Made in Russia Award presented by Snob magazine. The cultural space also won "Best Cultural Site" and "Choice of the Year" at the Innovative Public Interior Awards.

Andrey Olenev is a surrealist artist, member of the informal art association Muddlehood, co-founder of TOLK Gallery, which has been promoting street artists from Nizhny Novgorod since 2014. He works in various techniques: painting, pyrography, installations, to name a few. He is famous for monumental murals on the facades of old houses in the historic center of Nizhny Novgorod. He is also known for multicomponent wooden objects that completely or partially disguise the picturesque images and provide tactile interaction.

As an artist, Andrey appreciates the texture of wood as a material. Participant of group and personal exhibitions, festivals and projects of street art in Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Perm and other cities of Russia. In 2018, for instance, he held a solo exhibition, Hinges, at the Annenkirche in St. Petersburg. The hinges binding the winged altarpieces have an alternative meaning — it could be a symbol of death, connection, creation, change, mystery.

Konstantin Pyanov is one of the most fascinating artists of present-day Nizhny Novgorod. The artist spent a few years in Eastern Siberia, and this contact with Asian and Siberian cultures gave his artistic vision a fresh new dimention, opening up new ways of exploring the symbolism, the depth and combining it with the artist's elegance and the general direction of his work. Konstantin depicts the visible world using concepts and features that in no way belong to the three-dimensional world.

On the one hand, Pyanov's color combinations are meant to emphasize his innate masculinity, even toughness, so he gravitates toward golden ochre, swampy brown, silver grey or soot, while at the same time, the general coloring of his works suddenly bursts with bright scarlet, carmine, and yellow tones. The artist is not afraid to experiment, mixing local colors with complex color combinations - a monument to the artistic courage and the unconditional versatility of the artist's vision.

Rada Iya's work conveys the artist's personal spiritual experience in the language of symbolism. Rada creates an alternative reality - a separate fairy tale with plot, chapters, characters, events in the genre of magical realism. The majority of her pieces are done in oil on canvas. Though, in her artistic practice, Rada works with a variety of materials, including clay, paper, watercolor, tea, coffee, ink, flowers and herbs.

Interpreting space in her art, she creates an atmosphere of complete immersion and participation. Magic and mythology, the spiritual journey of the artist and spiritual connection with nature are the three pillars of Rada's creativity. The image of female power is a key motif of the paintings. Paintings and prints of the artist are in private collections in Russia, USA, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Norway, Taiwan, UK, Germany, Switzerland, South Korea, China, Spain, Bulgaria, Macedonia.

Sergey Sorokin is a realist artist who does not belong to any groups or movements. He has participated in more than thirty exhibitions, including solo exhibitions in America, Germany and Russia. The works are in the Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the United States, the Tabakman Museum in New York, in private collections of Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, St. Petersburg, in the cities of Holland, Germany, France, Israel, Australia, and the United States.

The heroes of the artist’s paintings are the city and the townspeople. His works depict not only specific houses, but also real people: not well-dressed and neatly coiffed, but rather marginalized individuals: gypsies at train stations, homeless people, street musicians. The artist sees character and a particular charm in them. Sorokin has his own keen, humorous but kind view of the surrounding reality.

Timofey Malyarov is an abstractionist artist. He creates bright life-affirming paintings. He uses oil pastel, oil paints, aerosol paints, ink as materials. And he mostly paints on paper, canvas or plywood. An artist’s work is always an interplay of color, form, and texture. Timofey appreciates texture and is constantly coming up with new effects using different painting tools.

The artist paints without sketching. Instead, he starts with one thing and then draws around it, adding details, building up the composition. In his works, he explores themes of growth, overcoming stagnation, and the experience of life.

Pirog is a podcast that explores the cultural code and creativity of Nizhny Novgorod. The hosts regularly invite media personalities and experts from a variety of spheres. Sitting around the table, guests share their achievements in the industry, discuss the latest news and life in the city. The question: "Why do you love Nizhny Novgorod?" is a nice finishing touch. You can listen to the podcast on YouTube.

What makes the podcast unique is that a bunch of young people discuss the many aspects of business with a wide variety of professionals on an equal footing. Vladimir Lutayenko, founder of "Nu, Pognali" podcast, was their first guest. Pirog reminds us that it's the people who make the city. Together with the hosts, the listener explores Nizhny Novgorod, gets tips on where to have a good time in the city and which local celebrity to subscribe to.