page_title: Prioksky City District
section_title: Sights and culture
hierarchical_section_title: Prioksky City District / Sights and culture
caption_attribution_description: English: The apartment building in the Scherbinki neighborhood of Nizhny Novgorod where A.D. Sakharov lived in exile 1980-85. His apartment is now a museum.
context_page_description: Prioksky City District is one of the eight districts of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It is located in the upper part of the city on the high right bank of the Oka River and has a land border only with Sovetsky City District along Meditsinskaya Street. It is also connected by the Myza Bridge with Avtozavodsky City District in the lower part of Nizhny Novgorod across the Oka. Population: 90,410; 96,043; 106,206.
  The district local government headquarters are located in the district center on 40 Let Oktyabrya Street.
  The district is essentially residential but it has some industrial enterprises. The latter include radio, electric, and electronics state-owned Frunze Plant as well as JSC Thermal and NITEL, which are in the same line of business. A number of scientific institutions are also located in the district. Their scope of interests are also connected with telecommunications and radar applications. A lot of small private-owned enterprises offer the service and employment opportunities for the residents of the district and the entire city.
context_section_description: The culture institutions include three movie theaters, one of which is specialized for children, a large Switzerland park and Shchyolokovsky Khutor forest, attractive places to rest, and the District history museum nearby of the authorities headquarters. There are two monuments in the Switzerland park, dedicated to memory of fallen Russian soldiers in a local armed conflicts and to participants of workers' movement in the early 20th century.
  The Nizhny Novgorod Andrey Sakharov Museum is located in the apartment in the Shcherbinki neighborhood where the scientist had to live in the 1980s.
caption: One of the apartment of this fairly ordinary apartment building is now Sakharov Museum
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