Zelyony Gorod is a urban locality (a resort settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

 under the administrative jurisdiction of the city of oblast significance

City of federal subject significance

City of federal subject significance is an umbrella term used to refer to a type of an administrative division of a federal subject of Russia which is equal in status to a district but is organized around a large city; occasionally with surrounding rural territories.According to the 1993...

 of Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...

, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

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, Russia

Russia

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, located in a forested area to the southeast of Nizhny Novgorod and surrounded by the territory of Kstovsky District

Kstovsky District

Kstovsky District is an administrative and municipal district in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Itsadministrative center is the town of Kstovo. Population: -Geography:...

. Population:

The forested area around the settlement is a surviving part of a much larger forest area that existed here centuries ago. Geographically, it is located
Nizhny Novgorod and Kstovo

Kstovo

Kstovo is a town and the administrative center of Kstovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, southeast of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: -History:...

, and is bounded roughly by Highway M-7 and Pavlovo

Pavlovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

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-Royka-Zeletsino railway from the north and the Kudma River

Kudma River

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in the south.

Many resort facilities and children's summer camps, originally built by the Soviet state or labor unions, are located in the settlement.

As of 2007, an upscale single-family housing development is being built on the southern outskirts of Zelyony Gorod (the Rassvet area), near the Kudma River.