Bolshemurashkinsky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.Order #3-od Municipally, it is incorporated as Bolshemurashkinsky Municipal District.Resolution #670 It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Bolshoye Murashkino. Population: 10,508 (2010 Census); The population of Bolshoye Murashkino accounts for 52.9% of the district's total population.
History The district was established in 1929.
Notable residents
Avvakum (1620/21 in Grigorovo – 1682), protopope of the Kazan Cathedral who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church Sergei Vaganov (born 1985 in Bolshoye Murashkino), football player
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