A plan of the Russian city of Nijni-Novgorod (Nizhny-Novgorod, earlier Gorky) from 1903, showing streets, rivers, railways and station, wharfs, and landmarks. On this map, the bridge across the Oka River is shown as a bridge of boats, or a pontoon bridge. Nijni-Novgorod "is situated at the confluence of the Oka and Volga, 276 miles by rail to the east of Moscow." -Kellogg, 1903.