Tonshayevsky District (russian: Тонша́евский райо́н) is an administrative district (
raion
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), one of the
forty
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Though the word is related to "four" (4), the spelling "forty" replaced "fourty" in the course of the 17th century and is now the standard form.
In mathematics
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in
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (russian: link=no, Нижегородская область, ''Nizhegorodskaya oblast''), is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localiti ...
,
Russia
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.
[Order #3-od] Municipally, it is incorporated as Tonshayevsky Municipal District.
[Resolution #670] It is located in the northeast of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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is the
urban locality (a
work settlement) of
Tonshayevo.
Population: 20,219 (
2010 Census);
The population of Tonshayevo accounts for 22.6% of the district's total population.
History
The district was established in 1929.
Transportation
The
Altsevo peat narrow gauge railway
The Altsevo peat railway is located in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1962, and has a total length of and a track gauge of .
Current status
The Altsevo peat railway was constructed in 1962 in the Tonshayevsky D ...
is located in the
work settlement of
Pizhma, closed in 2015.
The
Pizhemskaya narrow gauge railway
The Pizhemskaya narrow gauge railway (''russian: link=no, Пижменская узкоколейная железная дорога, Pizhemskaya uzkokoleynaya zheleznaya doroga'') is a narrow-gauge railway in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, buil ...
is located in the
work settlement of
Pizhma.
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Districts of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
States and territories established in 1929