Naberezhnye Chelny is a large Russian city in the northeastern part of Tatarstan, on the left bank of River Kama and the Nizhnekamsk Reservoir. River banks are connected with a dike, which a highway and a railway road run over.

Naberezhnye Chelny is the main city of the million-strong polycentric Naberezhny Chelny agglomeration and the center of the Nizhnekamsk territorial and production complex.

Besides, it is the second largest city of Tatarstan as regards population. The city with the population of 526 750 people (as of 2016) takes the area of 171 km². Its population consists of the Tatars (47,42 percent), Russians (44,87 percent), Chuvashs (1,95 percent), Ukrainians (1,31 percent), Bashkirs (1,16 percent), and others.

Naberezhnye Chelny is a large industrial center on the Kama River. It specializes in mechanical engineering, power industry, the construction industry, food and processing industry. The city's key enterprise is the Kama Car Factory, which provides nearly three quarters of the whole amount of industrial output of Naberezhnye Chelny.

Naberezhnye Chelny is a large railway, highway and aviation hub, as well as a well-known Kama river port on. It has the international airport of Begishevo

The federal "Volga" Highway M7 E 22 Moscow — Vladimir — Nizhny Novgorod — Kazan — Naberezhnye Chelny — Ufa (approaches to the cities of Izhevsk and Perm) runs through the city.

Museums and Galleries

The State Museum of the City History;

the State Museum of KAMAZ Construction;

the Naberezhnye Chelny Art Gallery was founded in 1980 as a branch of the Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts;

the Ecology and Environmental Protection Museum;

E. V. Fyodorov Art Gallery;

Vladimir Vysotsky Memorial Museum;

the Cultural and Educational Centre "Subway"