Navashino
Encyclopedia
Navashino is a town and the administrative center of Navashinsky District
of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
, Russia
, located on the right bank of the Oka River
, 158 kilometres (98.2 mi) southwest of Nizhny Novgorod
. Population:
It was founded in 1957 by merging two neighboring settlements of Mordovshchikovo and Lipnya and named after the nearby railway station
of Navashino.
Railway was built in the area in 1912.
A new road bridge over the Oka River
was opened in October 2009 near Navashino.
, which plans to use the vessels at its Caspian
subsidiary
Navashinsky District
Navashinsky District is an administrative district , one of the 47 in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia....
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
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, located on the right bank of the Oka River
Oka River
Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir, and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga. Its length exceeds...
, 158 kilometres (98.2 mi) southwest of 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...
. Population:
It was founded in 1957 by merging two neighboring settlements of Mordovshchikovo and Lipnya and named after the nearby railway station
Train station
A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...
of Navashino.
Railway was built in the area in 1912.
A new road bridge over the Oka River
Oka River
Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir, and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga. Its length exceeds...
was opened in October 2009 near Navashino.
Economy
OAO Okskaya Sudoverf (Russian for 'Oka Shipyard') is headquartered in Navashino. The shipbuilding company, originating from a local shipyard founded in 1907, builds boats for Volga and sea navigations. Some of their tankers are to be sold to customers as far afield as Malaysia's PetronasPetronas
PETRONAS, short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, is a Malaysian oil and gas company that was founded on August 17, 1974. Wholly owned by the Government of Malaysia, the corporation is vested with the entire oil and gas resources in Malaysia and is entrusted with the responsibility of developing and...
, which plans to use the vessels at its Caspian
Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. The sea has a surface area of and a volume of...
subsidiary