Bor in Nizhny Novgorod parlance refers above all to the city of Bor on the left bank of the Volga opposite Nizhny Novgorod, and to the district of the same name. However, other places in the Region share the word: bor has long been used here to denote dry, elevated ground under pine forest, and from this usage grew a whole cluster of names — of villages, urochishches, plants, and river crossings.
City and District
- city of Bor — a city on the left bank of the Volga, the nearest neighbor of Nizhny Novgorod; granted city status in 1938
- Borsky District — a district centered on the city of Bor, the second largest municipal formation in the Region by area
- Mokhovye Hills — the riverside part of Bor, a former dacha settlement visited by Maxim Gorky and Fyodor Shalyapin
- Bortsy — residents of the city and district
Places around the city
- Borskaya Floodplain — water meadows and lakes opposite the Strelka, submerged each spring
- Borsky Bridge — a bridge across the Volga on the road out of Nizhny Novgorod toward Bor
- Metro Tunnel at Bor — an unrealized plan for an underground link between the city and the left bank
- Lenin Street (Bor) — the city's main street
Enterprises and farms
- Bor Glass Plant — the country's largest manufacturer of automotive glass
- A fish farm complex for sturgeon farming — a fish-farming operation in the district
- Bor Association of Manufacturers (bat.nnov.ru) — an association of Bor-based enterprises
Bors beyond the district
The word lives on elsewhere in the Region — wherever a pine forest gave its name to a urochishche or settlement.
- Ichalkovskiy Bor — a protected forest with karst sinkholes and caves in Perevozsky District
- Pyanyy Bor — a urochishche on the Pyana River