Prioksky City District (russian: Прио́кский райо́н) is one of the eight districts of the

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Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...

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. It is located in the upper part of the city on the high right bank of the

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and has a land border only with Sovetsky City District along Meditsinskaya Street. It is also connected by the

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with Avtozavodsky City District in the lower part of Nizhny Novgorod across the Oka. Population: 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

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applications. A lot of small private-owned enterprises offer the service and employment opportunities for the residents of the district and the entire city.

Transportation

The main north-south transportation line of the district is Gagarin Avenue, which forks into

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and Bogorodsk roads after crossing the city border. The southern section of this road is now known as Sakharov Avenue. The main east-west roadway through the district is formed by the

across the Oka and Larin Street; this in fact is a part of transit federal motorway M7 from

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. It also provides the shortest and fastest way to drive into

Kstovo Kstovo (russian: Ксто́во) is a town and the administrative center of Kstovsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, southeast of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblas ...

and points east throughout

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. The public transportation in Prioksky City District includes regional city bus routes, municipal

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routes, municipal

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routes, and many privately owned ''

marshrutka ''Marshrutka''

Sights and culture

The culture institutions include three

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s, one of which is specialized for children, a large ''Switzerland'' park and Shchyolokovsky Khutor forest, attractive places to rest, and the District history

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nearby of the authorities headquarters. There are two monuments in the ''Switzerland'' park, dedicated to memory of fallen Russian

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s in a local armed conflicts and to participants of workers' movement in the early 20th century. The Nizhny Novgorod

Andrey Sakharov Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( rus, Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjevʲɪtɕ ˈsaxərəf; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, nobel laureate and activist for ...

Museum is located in the apartment in the Shcherbinki neighborhood where the scientist had to live in the 1980s.

References

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