Second Cable Car Planned for Chernigovskaya Street in Nizhny Novgorod

The administration of Nizhny Novgorod has disclosed the parameters for a cable car that will connect Barminskaya and Chernigovskaya streets.

Plans to build lifts on the slope near Chernigovskaya Embankment emerged in 2024. At the time, Deputy Governor Sergei Morozov stated that the connectivity of the areas would be provided by «two funiculars or escalators».

In the autumn of last year, documentation for the site planning of a lift near the metro bridge and the «Neimark» IT campus was published. In the documents, the facility is designated as a «pulsating type cable car». As explained in an article in the scientific journal «Young Scientist», «Pulsating cable cars ensure circular movement of rolling stock at a constant speed on the line, slowing down at the terminal stations for passenger boarding and alighting».

Earlier reports mentioned a first cable car in this area, approximately 257 meters long. Its upper station is to be located near Dalnyaya Street, and the lower one—not far from Romodanovsky Railway Station. Now a project for a second lift has been presented, with its upper station planned to be built near the Residence Prime residential complex on Barminskaya Street.

Approximate technical characteristics of the new cable car:

• length — 339.9 meters;
• one-way capacity — 900 people per hour;
• 5 linear support towers.

The construction of the facility will require the redevelopment of utility networks. Part of the site falls within the boundaries of the «Old Nizhny Novgorod» historical territory. Currently, the site planning project is in the stage of public discussions, which will last until January 30.