After playing in four friendlies for Hrvatski Dragovoljac, he was recalled from loan and on 20 August 2021 he joined Nizhny Novgorod on loan instead.[6] He reunited with Aleksandr Kerzhakov, who was his manager at Tom Tomsk in the previous season. He scored his first Russian Premier League goal for Nizhny Novgorod on 7 November 2021 in a game against Akhmat Grozny.[7]