What is "balakhna"

Balakhna is a town and the administrative center of Balakhninsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, north of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 33,500 (1968).

Balakhna is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.

• Balakhna, a town in Balakhninsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast; administratively incorporated as a town of district significance

• Balakhna, Ivanovo Oblast, a village in Furmanovsky District of Ivanovo Oblast
• Balakhna, Lipetsk Oblast, a selo in Ksizovsky Selsoviet of Zadonsky District of Lipetsk Oblast
• Balakhna, Perevozsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a village in Ichalkovsky Selsoviet of Perevozsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
• Balakhna, Tula Oblast, a village in Shakhtersky Rural Okrug of Bogoroditsky District of Tula Oblast