Sormovsky City District
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Sormovsky District or Sormovo , is one of the eight city districts of the city of Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod
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. It occupies the northwestern corner of the city, adjacent to the Volga River
Volga River
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The village originally known as Soromovo 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(which was spun off from Krasnoye Sormovo in 1970, and is geographically adjacent to its parent plant) and the Sormovo Confectionery Factory .

Recreation and sports

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
Quarry
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Sormovo airfield

Sokol Aircraft Plant http://www.sokolplant.ru/en/ and its airfield are located just south of the border of Sormovsky City District, within the neighboring Moskovsky 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.
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