The Spit of Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: Стрелка Нижнего Новгорода, romanized: Strelka Nizhnego Novgoroda short name is the Spit or Strelka) is one of the main natural landmarks in the historical centre of Nizhny Novgorod.

[2] In the times of the Russian Tsardom, the Spit (Strelka) was the center of the Strelitzky camp of Nizhny Novgorod Uyezd,[3] thereby receiving its name.

This place was convenient for the unloading and loading of cargo and merchant ships arriving in Nizhny Novgorod along the Oka and Volga.

A low place, at the intersection of two rivers, became more profitable for the construction of berths than the high Nizhny Novgorod hill.

During the World War II on the roof of the cathedral, instead of the central dome, an anti-aircraft machine gun was installed to repel Luftwaffe attacks on the port.

[6] The Spit's defense did not allow the Germans to bombing the port territory and the Oksky (Kanavinsky) bridge.

[9] In the same year the river port was transferred, and its functions were distributed between the towns of Kstovo, Bor and other.

During the reconstruction in the former port were discovered lacy metal structures of the All-Russia Exhibition of 1896,[11][12] which were transported to the Siberian pier and converted into warehouses in 1902.

[13] The townspeople advocated the preservation of these structures in the same place and the governor supported the citizens of Nizhny Novgorod.

However, the media and liberal activists presented this information as if historical warehouses with lace structures were demolished.

[16][17] On November 1, 2016, the construction of a highway on the Volga embankment from Strelka along the micro district Meshcherskoe Ozero began.

The inhabitants considered this territory to be their immediate place of rest and walks, and also called it an ecological zone.