Volga Region
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Bor District

Bor

Bor is a town in , , located on the left bank of the Volga River, across from . The two cities are connected by bridges built in 1965 and 2017, and by ferry service.
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  • Type: Town with 78,100 residents
  • Description: town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
  • Also known as: “Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast” and “Motavka”
  • Address: городской округ Бор
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory and Neustroevs-Bashkirov manor house.

Museum
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was the first Soviet science laboratory in the field of radio electronics. It was based in 1918 in . In 1928, the laboratory was reorganized and moved into the Central Radio Laboratory in . is situated 4 km southwest of Bor.

Historic building
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is an architectural ensemble in the downtown . The main building was founded in the 1806, the building wing was built in the 1902–1903. is situated 4½ km southwest of Bor.

Historic building
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is a historic building, which is situated 4½ km southwest of Bor.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nizhny Novgorod.

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, colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is 's fifth largest city, ranking after , , and .

Bor

Latitude
56.3598° or 56° 21′ 35″ north
Longitude
44.0543° or 44° 3′ 15″ east
Population
78,100
Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)
Open location code
9H869353+WP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 356482960
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
572665
Wiki­data ID
Q105360
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bor” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بور”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bor”
  • Basque: “Bor”
  • Belarusian: “Бор”
  • Bulgarian: “Бор”
  • Catalan: “Bor”
  • Cebuano: “Bor”
  • Chechen: “Бор”
  • Chinese: “Bor”
  • Chinese: “博尔”
  • Chinese: “博爾”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bor (Nijniy Novgorod vilâyeti)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bor”
  • Croatian: “Bor”
  • Czech: “Bor”
  • Dutch: “Bor”
  • Erzya: “Бор”
  • Esperanto: “Bor”
  • Estonian: “Bor”
  • Finnish: “Bor”
  • French: “Bor”
  • Georgian: “ბორი”
  • German: “Bor”
  • Hebrew: “בור”
  • Hungarian: “Bor”
  • Italian: “Bor”
  • Japanese: “ニジニ・ノヴゴロド州”
  • Japanese: “ボル”
  • Korean: “보르”
  • Lithuanian: “Boras”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bor (Nizhny Novgorod Chiu)”
  • Moksha: “Бор”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bor”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bor i Nizjegorod oblast”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bor”
  • Norwegian: “Bor”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bor”
  • Ossetian: “Бор (Дæллаг Новгороды облæст)”
  • Ossetian: “Бор”
  • Persian: “بور، استان نیژنی نووگورود”
  • Persian: “بور، اوبلاست نیژنی نووگورود”
  • Polish: “Bor”
  • Polish: “Bór”
  • Portuguese: “Bor”
  • Romanian: “Bor, Rusia”
  • Romanian: “Bor”
  • Russian: “Бор (Нижегородская область)”
  • Russian: “Бор”
  • Serbian: “Бор”
  • Silesian: “Bor (Rusyjo)”
  • Silesian: “Bor”
  • Slovenian: “Bor, Rusija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بور، روسیه”
  • Swedish: “Bor, Ryssland”
  • Swedish: “Bor”
  • Tagalog: “Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast”
  • Tagalog: “Bor”
  • Talysh: “Bor (Nižnij Novgorod)”
  • Talysh: “Bor”
  • Tatar: “Бор (Түбән Новгород өлкәсе)”
  • Tatar: “Бор”
  • Turkish: “Bor”
  • Ukrainian: “Бор”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bor”
  • Urdu: “بور، نزہنی نووگورود اوبلاست”
  • Veps: “Bor (Alalidnan agj)”
  • Veps: “Bor”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bor”
  • Western Panjabi: “بور”

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