an urban-type settlement and center of Nau Raion, Leninabad Oblast, Tadzhik SSR. Railroad station on the Kha-vast-Kokand line, 36 km southwest of the city of Leninabad. Population, 10,000 (1972). Nau has plants producing experimental agricultural and cotton-ginning machinery, reinforced-concrete goods, and asphalt concrete, as well as a flour-milling combine. The settlement also has a theater of Uzbek music and drama.