This category gathers stable concepts, images, and expressions rooted in Nizhny Novgorod's urban environment: local toponyms with special meaning, informal names for districts and phenomena, figures of speech, and cultural types. Many of them arose from the specifics of the city's geography — the division into the Upper Part and Zarechka, the existence of A village within the Nizhny Novgorod region — or from the region's local political and intellectual life.
Among the notable articles in this category are Nizhny Novgorod Psychotechnology, which describes the political practices that have taken shape in the region; the legendary Svetloyar as a cultural symbol of the region; and the concept of the Gorod in the special sense given to it by residents of the trans-river districts.