Gorodets

Gorodets is an old town on the left bank of the Volga in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, founded in the twelfth century, traditionally in 1152 by Yuri Dolgoruky. It was a frontier fortress of Vladimir-Suzdal and the seat of an appanage principality, held in the late thirteenth century by Andrei of Gorodets. Alexander Nevsky died there in 1263 on his way back from the Golden Horde.