Makaryev Fair

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Makariev Fair (Russian:Макарьевская ярмарка) was a fair in Russia held annually every July near Makariev 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 as Makariev Fair. It attracted many foreign merchants from India, Iran, and Central Asia.

This fair was a commerce centre to sell up to half the total production of goods in Russia. The fair ceased after the Bolshevik Revolution, but the building of the trade centre in Nizhny Novgorod was rebuilt in 1991 and today it is gaining popularity as it houses many events and exhibitions.

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Munro-Butler-Johnstone, Henry Alexander, A trip up the Volga to the fair of Nijni-Novgorod, Oxford: J. Parker and co., 1876.

Fitzpatrick, Anne Lincoln, The Great Russian Fair: Nizhnii Novgorod, 1840-90, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, in association with St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 1990. ISBN 0-333-42437-9