Bolshemurashkinsky District

Bolshemurashkinsky District (Большемура́шкинский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Bolshemurashkinsky Municipal District. It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is 658.6 km2. 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