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Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny , is a city in the administrative ___MASK90___ of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and Volga Federal District in Russia . From 1932 to 1990 , it was known as Gorky , after the writer Maxim Gorky , who was born there . The city is an important economic , transportation , scientific , educational and cultural ___MASK90___ in Russia and the vast Volga - Vyatka economic region , and is the main ___MASK90___ of river tourism in Russia . In the historical part of the city there are a large number of universities , theaters , museums and churches . Nizhny Novgorod is located about 400 km east of Moscow , where the Oka empties into the Volga . Population : Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice , usually in a rink , in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent ' s net to score points . Ice hockey teams usually consist of six players each : one ___MASK94___ , and five players who skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team . In ice hockey , the ___MASK94___ is the player responsible for preventing the hockey puck from entering their team ' s net , thus preventing the opposing team from scoring . The ___MASK94___ usually plays in or near the area in front of the net called the " goal crease " ( often referred to simply as " the crease " or " the net "). Goaltenders tend to stay at or beyond the top of the crease to cut down on the angle of shots . In today ' s age of goaltending there are two common styles , butterfly and hybrid ( hybrid is a mix of the traditional stand - up style and butterfly technique ). Because of the power of shots , the ___MASK94___ wears special equipment designed to protect the body from direct impact . The goalie is one of the most valuable players on the ice , as their performance can greatly change the outcome or score of the game . One - on - one situations , such as breakaways and shootouts , have the tendency to highlight a ___MASK94___ ' s pure skill , or lack thereof . Only one ___MASK94___ is allowed to be on the ice for each team at any given time . Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the ___MASK96___ of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European Russia . Russia ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Yekaterinburg , alternatively romanised as " Ekaterinburg ", is the fourth - largest city in Russia and the administrative ___MASK29___ of Sverdlovsk Oblast , located in the middle of the Eurasian continent , on the border of Europe and Asia . At the 2010 Census , it had a population of 1 , 349 , 772 . Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod are an ice hockey club in Nizhny Novgorod , Russia . They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League . Denis Mikhailovich Arkhipov ( Russian :          ; born May 19 , 1979 ) is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod of the Kontinental Hockey League ( KHL ) . The Kontinental Hockey League ( KHL ) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008 . It comprises 29 member clubs based in Belarus , China , Croatia , Finland , Kazakhstan , Latvia , Russia , and Slovakia and it is planned to expand to more countries . It is widely considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in Europe and Asia , and second in the world behind the NHL .