Nizhny Novgorod

There is also a town Velikiy Novgorod with Novgorod in its name

Nizhny Novgorod Нижний Новгород
City
Flag Coat of Arms
Etymology: nizhegorodian
Nickname:  Poket of Russia
Motto(s):  All together for one Russian: Купно за едино
Coordinates: 56.256833°N 43.932522°E / 56.256833; 43.932522
Country	Russia
Federal District	Volga
Region	Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Founded	1221
Government
• Type	City Duma
• Body	Nizhny Novgorod City Duma
• Mayor	Yury Shalabaev (United Russia)
Area
• City	410.68 km2 (158.56 sq mi)
• Metro	514.56 km2 (198.67 sq mi)
Elevation	200 m (700 ft)
Population
• City	1,249,861
• Rank	6th
Time zone
Moscow Time	UTC+03:00
ZIP Code	603xxx
ISO 3166 code	NIZ
Website	adm.nnov.ru

Nizhny Novgorod (Russian:Ни́жний Но́вгород, often shortened to Nizhny) is the sixth largest city in Russia. The first five are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Kazan. Nizhny Novgorod had a population of 1,249,861 in 2021, and one of 1,438,133 in 1989. It is the economic and cultural center of the vast Volga-Vyatka economic region, and also the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and Volga Federal District.

From 1932 to 1990 the city was known as Gorky (Russian: Го́рький) after the writer Maxim Gorky.

Other websites

• Nizhny Novgorod City Government website Archived 2006-07-17 at the Wayback Machine (in English)
• Official website of Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum Archived 2006-06-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
• Art Museum of Nizhny Novgorod (in English)
• http://www.nne.ru The Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Archdiocese (in Russian)
• VisitNizhny.com Archived 2020-10-19 at the Wayback Machine Information about tourism and entertainment in Nizhny Novgorod (in English)
• Nizhny Novgorod Online (in Russian)