Vetluzhsky District

Vetluzhsky District (Ветлу́жский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Vetluzhsky Municipal District. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of the district is 2992.4 km2. Its administrative center is the town of Vetluga. Population: 16,330 (2010 Census); The population of Vetluga accounts for 54.8% of the district's total population.

History
The district was established in 1929.

Notable residents

 * Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov (1880–1918), military officer, born in the village of Burdukovo, near Vetluga
 * Aleksey Pisemsky (1821–1881), novelist and dramatist, lived his first ten years at Vetluga
 * Vasily Rozanov (1856–1919), writer and philosopher, born in Vetluga
 * Viktor Rozov (1913–2004), dramatist and screenwriter, received primary education at Vetluga from 1918