Bogorodsk

Located in Meshchera, 8 km from Dudenevo pier, on the highway Nizhny Novgorod - Murom, 43 km south-west of Nizhny Novgorod. Known since 1570 as the village of Bogorodnicheskoye, Bogoroditskoye or Bogorodskoye, was a center for leather making. In the 17th and 19th centuries, residents were also engaged in pottery, blacksmithing, shortshore, shaft crafts. The name, apparently, according to the name of the church consecrated in honor of one of the feasts associated with the veneration of the Most Holy Mother of God. 4 tanneries: chrome, yuft, semishaft. Factories: leather-haberdashery and shoe, sewing, shield-brush. Plants: “Leather substitute”, machine-building, for the production of building materials, etc. In the Bogorod district, grain and vegetable crops, potatoes are grown. They raise cattle, pigs. Poultry farming. Deposits of limestone, peat, clay, construction sand. Museums, galleries, exhibition halls In the vicinity of Bogorodsk (5-12 km) - estates with historical and cultural value (in the villages of Lazarevo, Podvyazye, Savelovo, Kudreshki, in the villages of Lukino, Shapkino).