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Nizhny Novgorod (other spellings: Nizhegorodskaya, Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhni Novgorod, Nijni Novgorod) is a federal subject of Russia situated in the central part of European part of Russian Federation. The administrative center is Nizhny Novgorod city.

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The Nizhny Novgorod oblast of Russia is crossed by the Volga River. The biggest city after Nizhny Novgorod is Arzamas city. The Sarov town of Nizhny Novgorod oblast is famous for its largest and holiest convent in Russia. The Makariev Monastery situated opposite the Lyskovo town is one of the largest fair in Eastern Europe. There are also such historic towns as Balakhna and Gorodets on the Volga river in the northern part of Nizhny Novgorod oblast.

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The Nizhny Novgorod oblast is also known for its unique architectural construction - 128 m steel lattice hyperboloid tower built in 1929. The author of the project was Great Russian engineer and scientist V.G. Shukhov. The tower is located near the Dzerzhinsk city on the left bank of Oka River. It is the last tower of a whole number of tangent towers built on both banks of Oka river. Unfortunately other towers were demolished by oblast administration in 1970th as obsolete. There were only two towers in 1990th. In 2004 some local people took to pieces one tower for scrap metal. Today the last tower has the status of Russian architectural heritage.

Nizhny Novgorod Russia oblast tangent tower by Shukhov

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The Nizhny Novgorod oblast is in the top ten Russian oblasts by industrial output. The main industries of Nizhny Novgorod oblast are engineering, metalworking, chemical and petrochemical industries, forestry, woodworking and paper industries.

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