Fun fact 2 about Nizhny Novgorod
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The city was known as Gorky from 1932 until 1990, named after the Marxist activist Maxim Gorky, who was born there.
Nizhny Novgorod
Russia
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Nizhny Novgorod
Russia
Country
Russia
Population
1.3M
Coordinates
56.30, 43.94
Nizhny Novgorod, colloquially shortened to Nizhny and from 1932 to 1990 known as Gorky, is both a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in Russia.
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