Brief characteristics of Arzamas

Arzamas is situated on the high right bank of the river Tesha (tributary of Oka), 112 km to the south from Nizhny Novgorod. In Arzamas there are railway lined and automobile roads.

60 km to the south-west from Arzamas there is a federal nuclear centre of Russia (Arzamas-16, since 1991 - Sarov)