Vetluzhsky District (russian: Ветлу́жский райо́н) is an administrative district (
raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...
), one of the
forty in
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (russian: link=no, Нижегородская область, ''Nizhegorodskaya oblast''), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,310,5 ...
,
Russia
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.
[Order #3-od] Municipally, it is incorporated as Vetluzhsky Municipal District.
[Resolution #670] It is located in the north of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
is the
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of
Vetluga
Vetluga (russian: Ветлу́га) is a town and the administrative center of Vetluzhsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Vetluga River. Population:
History
It was founded in 1636 and granted town st ...
.
Population: 16,330 (
2010 Census);
The population of Vetluga accounts for 54.8% of the district's total population.
History
The district was established in 1929.
Notable residents
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Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov
Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov (russian: Михаи́л Арте́мьевич Муравьёв) ( – July 11, 1918) was a Russian officer who changed sides during the time of the Civil War.
He was born in a village of Burdukovo, near Vetluga ...
(1880–1918), military officer, born in the village of Burdukovo, near Vetluga
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Aleksey Pisemsky
Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky (russian: Алексе́й Феофила́ктович Пи́семский) () was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whos ...
(1821–1881), novelist and dramatist, lived his first ten years at Vetluga
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Vasily Rozanov
Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov (russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Рóзанов; – 5 February 1919) was one of the most controversial Russian writers and important philosophers in the symbolists' of the pre-revolutionary epoch ...
(1856–1919), writer and philosopher, born in Vetluga
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Viktor Rozov (1913–2004), dramatist and screenwriter, received primary education at Vetluga from 1918
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Districts of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
States and territories established in 1929
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