Sri Lankan Night At “Markin Square”, Nizhny Novgorod

On Monday, 8 July the “Mega Tourism Caravan” arrived at the fifth largest city of the Russian Federation. Nizhny Novgorod, colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with a population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia and the Administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. From 1932 to 1990, it was known as Gorky after the writer Maxim Gorky who was born there. The city is an important economic, transportation and cultural center of Russia and the vast Volga - Vyatka economic region. Nizhny Novgorod is one of the centers of the IT Industry in Russia. It ranks among the leading Russian cities in terms of the quantity of software R and D providers. Intelhas a big software R&D center with more than 500 engineers in the city, as well as a major datacenter.