Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakatuhia te taone nui i te 4 o Hui-tanguru 1221 e Prince Yuri II o Vladimir. I te tau 1612, i whakahaerehia e Kuzma Minin me Prince Dmitry Pozharsky tetahi ope mo te whakaoranga o Moscow mai i nga Poari. I te tau 1817, ka noho a Nizhny Novgorod hei pokapū tauhokohoko nui o te Emepaea o Ruhia. I te tau 1896, i tētahi whakaaturanga,
I whakaritea he whakaaturanga katoa o Ruhia. I te wā o te Soviet, ka huri te taone hei pokapū ahumahi nui. Ina koa, i hangaia te Gorky Automobile Plant i tenei waa. Kātahi ka tapaina te pa ko "Detroit o Rūhia". I te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, ko Gorky te kaiwhakarato nui rawa atu o nga taputapu hoia ki te Raki o te Rawhiti. Na tenei, ka whakaeke tonu a Luftwaffe i te taone mai i te rangi. Ko te nuinga o nga poma Tiamana i hinga ki te rohe o te Gorky Automobile Plant. Ahakoa ko te nuinga o nga waahi whakaputa o te tipu i whakangaromia katoatia, i hangaia e nga taangata o Gorky te wheketere i muri i nga ra 100. Whai muri i te pakanga, ka noho a Gorky hei taone kati, a, ka noho tonu tae noa ki muri i te wawahanga o te Soviet Union i te tau 1991. I taua wā, ka whakaingoatia anō te ingoa o te taone ko Nizhny Novgorod. I te 1985, i whakatuwheratia te Nizhny Novgorod Metro. I te tau 2016, i whakatuwherahia e Vladimir Putin te 70th Anniversary o Victory Plant hou, he waahanga no te Almaz-Antey Air and Space Defense Corporation.