Nizhny Novgorod

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