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A new generation of entrepreneurs; Determination and creative thinking spark the entrepreneurs of Nizhny Novgorod. Most focused on their business passion, not on building names for themselves.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 19990907
Author:Boyd, Jim

1/3 Nizhny Novgorod is a city of 1.5 million about 300 miles east of Moscow, at the confluence of the Oka and Volga rivers. It is aflood with entrepreneurs and grass-roots efforts to build a new Russia.

During Communist times, Nizhny was known as Gorky - after writer Maxim Gorky, a pen name. But "gorky" means "bitter" in Russian, a name that Nizhny residents disliked and jettisoned at the first opportunity. They brought back the traditional name for this famous old market town. It means "lower new city."

Until 1991, Nizhny was closed to visitors from the West, ...

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A new generation of entrepreneurs; Determination and creative thinking spark the entrepreneurs of Nizhny Novgorod. Most focused on their business passion, not on building names for themselves.(NEWS)

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