Zavolzhe

Zavolzh’e

 

a city (until 1964, a settlement) in Gorky Oblast, RSFSR. Located on the shores of the Gorky Reservoir. Railroad station 55 km northwest of the city of Gorky. Population, 35,000 (1970).

Zavolzh’e grew up in connection with the construction of the Gorky Hydroelectric Power Plant. The city has plants producing motors, caterpillar tractors, industrial reinforced concrete, and wood products, as well as a branch of the Gorky Polytechnic Institute and a motor-vehicle technicum.