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Volga ( Privolzhsky ) Federal District (" Privolzhsky federalny okrug ") is one of the eight federal districts of ___MASK69___ . It forms the southeastern part of European ___MASK69___ . Its population was 29 , 899 , 699 ( 70 . 8 % urban ) according to the 2010 Census , living on an area of . Mikhail Babich was appointed the federal district ' s Presidential Envoy on December 15 , 2011 . Moscow ( or ) is the capital and most populous city of ___MASK69___ , with 12 . 2 million residents within the city limits and 16 . 8 million within the urban area . Moscow has the status of a Russian federal city . ___MASK69___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK69___ 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 end 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 ___MASK69___ . ___MASK69___ ' 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 . The ___MASK67___ , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR " ) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991 . A union of multiple subnational republics , its government and economy were highly centralized . The ___MASK67___ was a one - party federation , governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital . Constructivist architecture was a form of modern architecture that flourished in the ___MASK67___ in the 1920s and early 1930s . It combined advanced technology and engineering with an avowedly Communist social purpose . Although it was divided into several competing factions , the movement produced many pioneering projects and finished buildings , before falling out of favour around 1932 . It has left marked effects on later developments in architecture . Alexei Maximovich Peshkov ( or  18 June 1936 ), primarily known as Maxim ( Maksim ) Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet ___MASK54___ , a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist . He was also a five - time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature . Around fifteen years before success as a ___MASK54___ , he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the ___MASK21___ ; these experiences would later influence his writing . Gorky ' s most famous works were " The Lower Depths " ( 1902 ), " Twenty - six Men and a Girl ", " The Song of the Stormy Petrel ", " The Mother ", " Summerfolk " and " Children of the Sun ". He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov ; Gorky would later mention them in his memoirs . Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny , is a city in the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and Volga Federal District in ___MASK69___ . 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 center in ___MASK69___ and the vast Volga - Vyatka economic region , and is the main center of river tourism in ___MASK69___ . 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 : Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin (      ) ( 1880 in Nizhny Novgorod -- 1933 in Moscow ) , together with his brothers Alexander Vesnin and Viktor Vesnin , was a leading light of Constructivist architecture . Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (" Nizhegorodskaya oblast "), also known in English as Nizhegorod Oblast , is a federal subject of ___MASK69___ ( an oblast ). Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod . Population : 3 , 310 , 597 ( 2010 Census ). From 1932 to 1990 it was known as Gorky Oblast . Alexander Aleksandrovic Vesnin ( 1883 , Yuryevets  1959 , Moscow ), together with his brothers Leonid and Viktor , was a leading light of Constructivist architecture . He is best known for his meticulous perspectival drawings such as " Leningrad Pravda " of 1924 . Volga - Vyatka economic region ( tr .: " Volgo - Vyatsky ekonomichesky rayon ") is one of twelve economic regions of ___MASK69___ . It accounted for almost 3 per cent of the national GRP in 2008 . Yuryevets is the name of several inhabited localities in ___MASK69___ .