Gorky Nuclear Heating Plant, Unfinished nuclear station in Kstovsky District, Russia.

The Gorky Nuclear Heating Plant is an unfinished district-heating station near Fedyakovo in Kstovsky District, designed with two AST-500 reactor units to supply heat to Nizhny Novgorod's Nagornaya area. Construction reached about 85 percent by the late 1980s, leaving reactor and turbine buildings in place. Demolition began in 2020, and only the ventilation stack remains today.

The Gorky nuclear heating plant was approved by a Council of Ministers decree in 1979, with construction starting in 1983 near Fedyakovo to supply heat to Shcherbinki and Verkhniye Pechyory. An IAEA review in 1989 confirmed the project's safety, but protests after Chernobyl, in which Boris Nemtsov played a visible role, ended the work. The unfinished plant passed to Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ownership in 1991.

The site represents Soviet-era ambitions in nuclear energy and how safety fears reshaped large industrial projects. Today visitors encounter an abandoned space that reflects the hopes and concerns of an entire period.

The facility sits several kilometers east of Nizhny Novgorod city limits near shopping centers and major transportation corridors. Be aware that the grounds remain difficult to access and prior permission or arrangements may be necessary.

The plant's reactor components were never installed: after the project was cancelled, unused heating-plant parts were diverted to the nuclear reactors of the Tomsk facility. The site's premises were meanwhile rented out to private firms, among them a distillery. In 2019 the unfinished building and a 32,600 m² plot sold for 42.6 million roubles, half the starting auction price.