- Kstovsky District
Kstovsky District ( _ru. Кстовский район) is an administrative district in the
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ,Russia . Itsadministrative center is the town ofKstovo .Geography
Kstovsky District is located along the southern shore of the
Volga River ,immediately to the east of city ofNizhny Novgorod .The westernmost part of the district is adjacent to Nizhny Novgorod. It is gradually becoming more suburban, itshousing developments and shopping centers closely linked to the life of the city. In fact, the
resort settlement ofZelyony Gorod , although geographically located in Kstovsky District, is administered by Nizhegorodsky District (borough) ofNizhny Novgorod .The city of
Kstovo , although within an easy commuting distance (around 20 km)from downtown Nizhny, is a fairly self sufficient industrial city, with most people working and shopping locally.The east of the district is more rural, with potato, root crops, and grain fields and cattle pastures alternating with forests and urbanites' second homes.
The district is divided into 15 administrative units: the town administration (Kstovo),urban-settlement administration of Leninskaya Sloboda, and 13 villageadministrations ("selsovet"), which include 122 villages.
The area of the district is 1260 square kilometers.
Demographics
Population: 113,703: 66,944 in the town of Kstovo and 46,759 in the rest of the district. (2002 Census).
Economy
Most of the industry in the district is located in and around
Kstovo .The rest of the district is mostly agricultural, although the metalworking plantin Bezvodnoye and brick factory in Afonino are well known in the region.The construction of a nuclear heating plant (
Gorky Nuclear District Heating Plant , Горьковская Атомная Станция Теплоснабжения), meant to provide heating for a large part ofNizhny Novgorod , was started in the early 1980s western part of the district, near theRoyka railway station and the village of Fedyakovo. A few years later, after theChernobyl disaster, construction stopped, and the large, almost completed building remains mostly disused to this day (2006).One of Nizhny Novgorod metropolitan area's largest shopping malls, anchored by an
IKEA store and anAuchan hypermarket, is located near the sameFedyakovo , across the road from the hulking uncompleted nuclear plant building. Conveniently located to both Nizhny Novgorod and Kstovo, the mall is connected to both cities by free shuttle buses.
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