Fedyakovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
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Kstovsky District
Kstovsky District is an administrative and municipal district in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Itsadministrative center is the town of Kstovo. Population: -Geography:...
of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: The oblast is crossed by the Volga River. Apart from Nizhny Novgorod's metropolitan area, the biggest city is Arzamas...
, Russia
Russia
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, located just a few kilometers outside of the Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...
's city line, with the apartment blocks on the south-eastern edge of the city being easily visible from the village.
The village church is that of Transfiguration
Transfiguration of Jesus
The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event reported in the New Testament in which Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels describe it, and 2 Peter 1:16-18 refers to it....
of the Lord .
Location
The village is located near the intersection of the Russian highway M-7 (Nizhny Novgord–KazanKazan
Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...
) and an important local road connecting Bolshaya Yelnya (a junction on the old Nizhny Novgord–Kazan highway, with an easy connection with the important Verkhnie Pechery development in Nizhny Novgorod's north-eastern Nizhegorodsky District)
with Shcherbinki (a similarly important development in the city's south-eastern Prioksky District
Prioksky City District
Prioksky City District is one of the eight administrative districts of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It is located in the upper part of the city on the high right bank of the Oka River and has a land border only with Sovetsky City District along Meditsinskaya Street...
). A railway runs by the village as well. This location, making the area of the village a convenient site for any facility intended to serve all of Nizhny Novgorod's Upper City as well as neighboring Kstovo
Kstovo
Kstovo is a town and the administrative center of Kstovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, southeast of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: -History:...
, made the village see two large-scale construction projects within the last thirty years.
GAST
In the early 1980s, the construction of Gorky Nuclear District Heating Plant was started. Unlike a conventional nuclear power plantNuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors. As in a conventional thermal power station the heat is used to generate steam which drives a steam turbine connected to a generator which produces electricity.Nuclear power plants are usually...
, the facility was meant not to generate electricity,
but simply to heat water for heating apartment blocks throughout Nizhny Novgorod's Upper City. By the early 1990s, after spending some $1 billion of investment money, the station building (although not the nuclear equipment inside) and the hot-water pipelines connecting it to the city had been mostly completed; but completing the project became infeasible in the post-Chernobyl
Chernobyl
Chernobyl or Chornobyl is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, in Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. The city had been the administrative centre of the Chernobyl Raion since 1932....
political climate. In the years since the abandonment of the project, the building has been either disused, or used by local entrepreneurs for a variety of purposes, including bottling liquor.
MEGA
In the 2000s, the same convenient location made the Fedyakovo the site of another major construction project. MEGAMEGA Family Shopping Centre
MEGA The Family Shopping Centre is a chain of shopping centres in Russia owned and operated by IKEA. Each MEGA brings together in one place over 150 tenants offering goods and services...
, the IKEA
IKEA
IKEA is a privately held, international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks, appliances and home accessories. The company is the world's largest furniture retailer...
-owned Russian mall developer, chose the site for its first mall in Nizhny Novgorod metropolitan area. Open in October 2006, the megamall, anchored by an IKEA store and an Auchan
Auchan
Groupe Auchan SA is a French international retail group and multinational corporation headquartered in Croix, France. It is one of the world's principal distribution groups with a presence in 12 countries and 175,000 employees....
hypermarket, has become one the region's premier retail facilities. Ample car parking, free shuttle buses to Nizhny Novgorod's outer neighborhoods and Kstovo, as well as service by regular commuter buses and "routed taxis
Marshrutka
Marshrutka , from marshrutnoye taksi is a share taxi in the CIS countries, the Baltic states, and Bulgaria. Marshrutnoye taksi literally means routed taxicab...
" provide easy access for customers from throughout the metropolitan area.
The arrangements in effect since August 1, 2007, provide free shuttle buses to the shopping center from the following areas:
- No. 270, from Avtozavodsky DistrictAvtozavodsky City District, Nizhny NovgorodAvtozavodsky City District is one of the eight administrative districts of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It is located in the southwestern part of the Lower City of Nizhny Novgorod, on the low left bank of the Oka River and has a land border with Leninsky City District to the north...
of Nizhny Novgorod, via Shcherbinki (Prioksky City DistrictPrioksky City DistrictPrioksky City District is one of the eight administrative districts of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It is located in the upper part of the city on the high right bank of the Oka River and has a land border only with Sovetsky City District along Meditsinskaya Street...
) - No. 271, from Verkhniye Pechyory (Nizhegorodsky District) of Nizhny Novgorod.
- No. 272, from Kstovo.