This category brings together articles on floating houses, river dachas, and concepts of floating settlements as applied to the waters of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga region. The Volga, the Oka, and their tributaries create an extensive body of water here suitable for hosting such structures, while a contrasting climate with sharp seasonal temperature swings makes engineering solutions — heat supply and Electricity supply of a floating house — an especially important part of the topic.
Among the projects examined are urban-planning schemes for the Floating City and the concept of Floating Cities on the waters of Vorotynsky District, where the Volga and the Sura meet. Also discussed separately are questions of mass-producing Floating House) suitable for year-round living in the conditions of Northern Eurasia.