"In summer 6729 (1221) Grand Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich founded a city on the Oka mouth and gave it the name of Novgorod Nizhny (Low)."

That is where the glorious 780-year history of Nizhny Novgorod began.

A Slavic tradition demanded that all newly founded settlements have the word "New" in its name ("Novgorod" stands for "New City"), while the word "Low" reflected its Lowland location.

By the materials of book "Anniversary Nizhny"