This category brings together the settlements and major territorial development projects that make up the Nizhny Novgorod agglomeration. The agglomeration is formed around the regional capital and includes towns with their own industrial and historical identity: Dzerzhinsk — the region's second-largest city, with a developed chemical industry, Balakhna — an ancient town on the Volga associated with the name of Kuzma Minin, Bor — a town on the opposite bank of the Volga, linked to Nizhny Novgorod by a cable car. Alongside the towns, the category includes large-scale urban development initiatives, in particular the Olgino Integrated Development Zone») — the flagship project for the comprehensive development of undeveloped land in the south of Nizhny Novgorod.