I've never been to Nizhny, but if it's a typical industrial suburb, "sprightly" and "colorful" are not the words to describe it. "Grim" is probably too much. But the writer is using loose, colorful travel-journalism language. Haven't you ever noticed that whenever a British journalist describes a foreign country, it's always "grim"?
--- Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
wrote:
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> I am sitting in a spartan hotel room in a grim
> industrial suburb of
> Nizhny Novgorod.
>
> ^^^^^^^
>
> CB: "grim" ? Sounds like leftover anti-Soviet
> language.
>
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