On November 13, 2026, city authorities announced the launch date for two new paid parking zones on Strelka Street in Nizhny Novgorod: both lots were scheduled to begin operating on December 14, 2026.[1]

Location and capacity

The first lot is located at building No. 14A, next to the Volga Arena ice rink on Sovnarkomovskaya Street. It is designed for 164 parking spaces.[1] The second is located at building No. 21Zh in the Pakgauzy (Warehouses) area and holds 75 vehicles.[1] The combined capacity of the two lots is 239 spaces, of which 25 are reserved for people with limited mobility.[1]

Operating hours and payment

Fees are charged on weekdays from 08:00 to 20:00; at night (from 20:00 to 08:00), as well as on weekends and public holidays, parking is free.[1] Parking can be paid for through parking meters, the parkovkinn.ru website, the RuParking app, a text message to number 7522, the MAX messenger, the VKontakte social network, or by subscription. A prepayment system is in effect: payment must be made within 15 minutes of the start of parking, although postpayment is available until 23:59 on the same day.[1]

Context

According to the municipal Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure, as of November 2026 Nizhny Novgorod had 108 paid parking zones with 5,028 spaces.[2] That same year, a parking lot on Maxim Gorky Square next to the House of Communications was added to the register, but four zones were removed at the same time — in Kazarmenny and Rybny Lanes, on Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street, and on Maslyakova Street.[2] In the Upper Town of the city, at least 60% of paid spaces are occupied during working hours, whereas in the area of Old Kanavino demand remains low.[3]

In the first three quarters of 2026, the city budget received 82.4 million rubles from paid parking. From January through October of the same year, 161,019 citations were issued for failure to pay for parking, totaling 345.1 million rubles, of which 285.5 million rubles had been paid as of publication.[2]

The Traffic Management Center explained that the new zones are intended to improve transport accessibility to the popular facilities of the Strelka — the ice arena and the concert and exhibition halls — as well as to reduce the shortage of parking spaces and ease the load on the road network.[1] Earlier, in September 2026, a separate parking lot called "Sport Port" with 925 spaces was opened in the same area for visitors to Volga Arena and the Sovcombank Arena stadium; it operates only on match days and during major events at a fixed rate of 800 rubles.[4]

Sources

  1. NIA "Nizhny Novgorod" — Two paid parking lots with 239 spaces will start operating at the Strelka on December 14 Nizhny Novgorod News
  2. NIA "Nizhny Novgorod" — Two paid parking lots at the Nizhny Novgorod Strelka are planned to open in 2026 Nizhny Novgorod News
  3. Vremya N — Two new paid parking lots will soon start operating in Nizhny Novgorod
  4. GIPERNN — Two more paid parking lots are planned to open in Nizhny Novgorod in 2026
  5. Pro Gorod Nizhny Novgorod — Two new paid parking lots will open in Nizhny Novgorod before the end of the year