Sormovsky City District

For other uses, see Sormovsky.

District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Sormovsky District

Сормовский район

District

Church of the Transfiguration

Coat of arms

Location of Sormovsky District on the map of Nizhny Novgorod

Coordinates: 56°21′N 43°52′E﻿ / ﻿56.350°N 43.867°E﻿ / 56.350; 43.867
Country| Russia
Federal subject| Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Established| 1924
Administrative center| Nizhny Novgorod
Government

• Type| Local government
• Head| Dmitry Sivokhin
Area

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• Total

| 100 km2 (40 sq mi)
Administrative structure

• Inhabited localities| Sormovo Centre Urban-type settlements[2]

Main article: Administrative divisions of Nizhny Novgorod

Sormovsky City District (Russian: Со́рмовский райо́н), or Sormovo (Russian: Со́рмово), is one of the eight districts of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It occupies the northwestern corner of the city, adjacent to the Volga River. Population: 168,761 (2010 Census);[3] 177,940 (2002 Census);[4] 185,994 (1989 Soviet census).[5]

## History

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Sormovo. Sobornaya Street

The village originally known as Soromovo (Соромово) had existed since 1542. In 1849, the Sormovo Works—soon one of Russia's most important machine-building plants, later known as Krasnoye Sormovo—was founded; its owner had the village renamed to more euphonic Sormovo. Although legally a village, it soon grew into a large workers' settlement; in 1922, Sormovo became a city; in 1929, it was amalgamated into the city of Nizhny Novgorod, becoming one of its districts.

It is one of the city's industrial districts. Besides Krasnoye Sormovo, its well-known enterprises include the Volga Shipyard[6](which was spun off from Krasnoye Sormovo in 1970, and is geographically adjacent to its parent plant) and the Sormovo Confectionery Factory (Сормовская кондитерская фабрика).

The May Day demonstration, mentioned in The Mother by Maxim Gorky, took place in Sormovo, 1902.

## Recreation and sports

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The district does not have good, conveniently accessible beaches on the Volga shoreline, due to much of it being used by shipyards and floodlands. Instead, the locals prefer to use sand beaches on several artificial lakes, which formed several decades ago in the pits left from defunct sand quarries.

### Association football

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* DYuTs Sormovo (2002)

## Sormovo airfield

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Main article: Sormovo (airfield)

Sokol Aircraft Plant and its airfield are located just south of the border of Sormovsky City District, within the neighboring Moskovsky City District of Nizhny Novgorod. Between 1956 and 1970, the territory of today's Moskovsky District was part of the Sormovsky District, meaning that during that time the Sormovo Airfield was actually within the Sormovsky District.

## Transport

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Varya station of the City Rail

* City Rail. Included in the structure of the Gorky railway. It is an auxiliary line for the metro. It has a transfer station from the Moskovsky railway station to the Moskovskaya metro station. In the same place it connects with the second line of the electric train in the direction of the Prospekt Gagarina station.
* Suburban trains. There is a permanent connection with the cities of Balakhna and Zavolzhye. There are two railway lines that merge into one in front of the Pochinki station. Electric trains depart from Moskovsky railway station and Varya station. On the territory of the Sormovsky district there are Kooperativnaya stations (on the Nizhny Novgorod-Moskovsky - Kostarikha - Zavolzhye branch); Varya, Sormovo (on the branch of Varya - Zavolzhye), Pochinki, Koposovo, Narodnaya, Vysokovo, Dubravnaya.
* Bus transport. On the territory of the Sormovsky district there is the Nizhny Novgorod passenger transport enterprise No. 1 (KIM street, 335). Buses (LiAZ and MAZ) and private fixed-route taxis (PAZ) are the main modes of transport in the area. City bus transport connects the Sormovsky district with all districts of Nizhny Novgorod, as well as with the working settlement of Bolshoye Kozino, Balakhninsky district, Nizhny Novgorod region (bus route No. 318). In addition, suburban and intercity bus routes pass through the Sormovsky district from the Kanavinskaya bus station in the direction of Balakhna, Zavolzhye, Gorodets, Chkalovsk, Sokolsky, Kovernin, Palekh, Puchezh, Yuryevets, Kineshma, Ivanovo, Kostroma.
* Tram. 2 tram routes No. 6 and No. 7 connect the Sormovsky and Moskovsky districts with the Moskovsky railway station. From the tram stop Station Varya trams of these routes move along the ring towards each other.

## References

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2. ^ The count of urban-type settlements may include the work settlements, the resort settlements, the suburban (dacha) settlements, as well as urban-type settlements proper.
3. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
4. ^ Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
5. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 - via Demoscope Weekly.
6. ^ Volga Shipyard