Lukoyanovsky District

Lukoyanovsky District (Лукоя́новский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Lukoyanovsky Municipal District. It is located in the south of the oblast. The area of the district is 1890.7 km2. Its administrative center is the town of Lukoyanov. Population: 32,384 (2010 Census); The population of Lukoyanov accounts for 46.2% of the district's total population.

History
The district was established in 1929.

Notable residents

 * Nikolay Urvantsev (1893–1985), Soviet geologist and explorer, born in Lukoyanov
 * Valery Taliev (1872–1932), botanist and evolutionary biologist, born in Lukoyanov