FC Torpedo NN Nizhny Novgorod () was a Russian

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team from

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...

that played in the

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championship (6th level).

History

It played professionally from 1936 to 1940, 1945 to 1984 and from 1997 to 2001.

FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod () was a Russian football club from Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 1998. In 2008, FC Volga won the Ural-Povolzhye (Volga Region in Russian) zone of the Russian Second Division and advanced to the Russian First Division. In ...

is another club that can claim the legacy of the team when it was called FC Volga Gorky. In 1948, 1951, 1954 and 1964 it played in the

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, where their best result was 13th place in 1954. Their best result during the late 1990s was the 19th place in the

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in 1999 (the only season it played on that level, the second highest in Russian football).

Team name history

* 1932–1935: FC GAZ Gorky * 1936: Avtozavod im. Molotova Gorky * 1937–1961: FC Torpedo Gorky * 1962: FC Chayka Gorky * 1963–1984: FC Volga Gorky * 1997–2002: FC Torpedo-Viktoriya Nizhny Novgorod * 2003: FC Torpedo NN Nizhny Novgorod

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