miércoles, 17 de agosto de 2011

Industry - Handicrafts - Agriculture

Industry
Nizhny Novgorod cargo port.
The main industries of the Nizhny Novgorod Region include machine building, chemical industry, ferrous metallurgy, timber industry, pulp-and-paper industry, light industry, food industry.
Machine building and metal working enterprises produce trucks and cars, buses, creeper tractors, automobile assemblies, components and aggregates, river and sea boats, internal combustion engines for cars and boats, aircrafts, machines, devices, instruments, equipment for chemical, light and food industry, TV sets, etc. These products are manufactured in Nizhny Novgorod by JSC GAZ, Nizhegorodsky machine building plant, aircraft building plant Sokol, Zavod Krasnoye Sormovo, JSC Nizhegorodsky Zavod Nitel as well as in other towns of the region – Pavlovo, Arzamas, etc.
Chemical enterprises located in Dzerzhinsk and Nizhny Novgorod produce organic synthesis products, plastics and artificial resins, organic glass, varnishes, paints, pesticides, etc.
Ferrous metallurgy enterprises are situated in Viksa, Kulebaky, Nizhny Novgorod and Bor, nonferrous metallurgy enterprises – in Nizhny Novgorod. Pulp-and-paper industry is centered in Pravdinsk and Balakhna; oil refining and petrochemistry – in Kstovo.
Regional administration building in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin.
Old centers of metal working – Pavlovo, Vorsma, etc.
The Nizhegorodskaya hydropower station is located on the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region, in Balakhna.

Handicrafts
Khokhloma and Gorodets painting.

Agriculture
Agricultural farms specialize in cultivating rye, oats, barley, wheat, buckwheat, sugar beet, fibre flax, onion, potato. Meat and dairy livestock farming, pig breeding and poultry farming are also well-developed. About 12 000 tons of vegetables are grown in the hothouses all the year round.

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