Hotels in Bor, showing 1

Bor is a satellite town of Nizhny Novgorod, which is located on the opposite bank of the Volga. This is the terminal station of the cable car, which is thrown across the Volga, which is the main attraction here. Bor can be viewed as an appendix to it: if you have already arrived here, pay attention to a few old churches and good pre-revolutionary buildings. The short and capacious name of the town of Bor comes from the mighty coniferous forest, which has been located in this area for a long time. It is considered the southernmost edge of the great taiga. Sights of the town of Bor: the city museum of local lore - that cultural institution is located in the building of the beginning of the last century - this is the family merchant mansion of Alexander Starov. It has been in operation since the early 196Os. Sixteen of its exhibition halls are located on an area of ​​672 square meters. "Borskaya" cable car station across the Volga - in twelve and a half minutes you can get from Nizhny Novgorod to Bor and back if you use the cable car-funicular across the Volga, opened at the beginning of 2000. It became a unique and rather successful attempt to reduce the number of traffic jams and to simplify the movement of passengers between Nizhny Novgorod and its satellite city. The glass factory is the largest manufacturer of polished glass and special glass for the automotive industry in our country. it is the birthplace of the famous faceted glass. About eighty percent of domestic cars are equipped with glass made here. The Museum of Military Equipment - a cultural institution is located next to the Victory Memorial. The following equipment can be viewed in the museum: 85 mm D-44 cannon, 122 mm D-30 howitzer, BTR-1 armored personnel carrier, jet aircraft, T-62 tank and BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle. Today Bor continues to develop rapidly and offers all guests high quality and very promising services in terms of sports and natural recreation. Bor is always waiting for you!