Second day of search for missing teenager in Nizhny Novgorod

A 13-year-old boy from Chkalovsk has been missing since Thursday after leaving for school, with suspicions he may have headed to Nizhny Novgorod.
Feb 3, 2026
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The search for the missing 13-year-old has been underway since he disappeared on Thursday.
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Natalya Burukhina / NN.RU

A 13-year-old teenager has been missing for the second day in the Nizhny Novgorod region. He may have left Chkalovsk for Nizhny Novgorod, according to the search and rescue center «Lynx.»

According to the alert, on Thursday, January 22, the boy left for school from his home at 15 Lomonosov Quarter Street and disappeared. He was last seen on a bus heading to the regional center.

The schoolboy has an average build, is 170 cm (5 feet 7 inches) tall, with shoulder-length blond hair and gray-blue eyes. On the day he disappeared, he was wearing a black jacket, dark gray wide jeans, and a black leather ushanka hat.

Anyone with any information about the teenager«s whereabouts is asked to contact the search and rescue center »Lynx« at 8 930 283 82 00, 8 933 420 12 89 (Mikhail), 8 800 700 56 76 (hotline), or emergency services.

Update. The teenager has been found alive.

Last Saturday in Nizhny Novgorod, a 10-year-old boy went missing. Fortunately, he was found the same day. And during the New Year holidays in the city, a 13-year-old girl was searched for. She disappeared at the end of December and was found only after several days.

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