Gaginsky District

Gaginsky District (Га́гинский райо́н) 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 1064.2 km2. 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 People
Birthplace of Andrey Vlasov (1901-1946), a Soviet Red Army general and collaborator with Nazi Germany during World War Two.