Sormovsky City District

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Sormovsky District (Russian: Со́рмовский райо́н), or Sormovo (Russian: Со́рмово), is one of the eight city districts of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It occupies the north-western corner of the city, adjacent to the Volga River.

The village of 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^[1](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).

[edit] Recreation and sports

The district does not have good, convieniently 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.

[edit] Sormovo airfield

Main article: Sormovo (airfield)

Sokol Aircraft Plant [1] and its airfield are located just south of Sormovsky City District, under jurisdiction of Nizhny Novgorod's Moskovsky District.