Kanavinsky City District (Russian: Канавинский район), or simple Kanavino, is a district (raion) of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

Another version of the origin is the patronymic: from the Erzya female pagan name Kunava, denoting the wife of a noble person, the queen, who probably owned these lands.

There is also a version based on the legend, which, however, is rejected by philologists as untenable: supposedly on the left bank of the Oka there was a tavern belonging to a certain godfather, and lovers of revelry and drunkenness from the river, approaching the tavern, shouted “Kuma, wine!” It was this legend that formed the basis of the famous opera by P. I. Tchaikovsky "The Enchantress".

Until 1928, Kanavino was an independent administrative unit (since 1919 - a city), and since 1928 it became part of Nizhny Novgorod.

1, was organized here, and the first Soviet truck Ford, on the basis of which the famous lorry was subsequently built, left the factory gates on February 1, 1930.