Gaginsky District

Gaginsky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Gaginsky Municipal District. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Gagino. Population: 12,444 (2010 Census); The population of Gagino accounts for 31.3% of the district's total population.

History

The district was established in 1929.

Notable residents

• Lomakino, the birthplace of Andrey Vlasov (1901–1946), a Soviet Red Army general and collaborator with Nazi Germany during World War Two, is located within the district.

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