The monument to Minin and Pozharsky is in National Unity Square down the hill from the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, next to the Church of the Nativity of St John the Baptist. This is a smaller copy of the monument in Red Square in Moscow.
Back in 1818, the plan was to erect this monument in Nizhny Novgorod, as it was the location from where Prince Dmitry Pozharsky led the volunteer army to end the Polish occupation of Moscow. Alexander I suggested, however, that the monument should stand in Moscow.

In 2004, Yury Luzhkov, the then mayor of Moscow, made up his mind to correct this historical injustice, proposing to put a copy of the Moscow monument in Nizhny Novgorod. A copy of the monument was then commissioned to Zurab Tsereteli, a famous Russian architect. The monument was inaugurated on November, 4 2005 in National Unity Square of Nizhny Novgorod.