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Sechenovsky District (russian: Се́ченовский райо́н) is an administrative district (
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), one of the
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in
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (russian: link=no, Нижегородская область, ''Nizhegorodskaya oblast''), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,31 ...
,
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.Order #3-od Municipally, it is incorporated as Sechenovsky Municipal District.Resolution #670 It is located in the southeast of the
oblast An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdom ...
. The area of the district is . Its
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is the
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(a '' selo'') of
Sechenovo Sechenovo (russian: Се́ченово) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the administrative center of Sechenovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental count ...
. Population: 15,446 ( 2010 Census); The population of Sechenovo accounts for 34.1% of the district's total population.


History

The district was established in 1929 and renamed in 1944 after
physiologist Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical ...
Ivan Sechenov Doctor Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov (russian: Ива́н Миха́йлович Се́ченов; , Tyoply Stan (now Sechenovo) near Simbirsk, Russia – , Moscow), was a Russian psychologist, physiologist, and medical scientist. The very fa ...
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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=August 2012 Districts of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast States and territories established in 1929 __NOTOC__