Volodarsk is a town and the administrative center of Volodarsky District

Volodarsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Volodarsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is an administrative district , one of the 47 in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia....

 of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: The oblast is crossed by the Volga River. Apart from Nizhny Novgorod's metropolitan area, the biggest city is Arzamas...

, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Seyma River (Oka

Oka River

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's tributary

Tributary

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) 50 kilometres (31.1 mi) west of Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod

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. Population:

The village of Seyma on the Seyma River was first mentioned in the 15th century. Seyma's branch settlement of Olgino was renamed Volodarsk in 1920, after V. Volodarsky

V. Volodarsky

V. Volodarsky was a Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician. He was assassinated in 1918.-Early years:Moisei Markovich Goldstein V. Volodarsky was a Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician. He was assassinated in 1918.-Early years:Moisei Markovich Goldstein V. Volodarsky was...

, a Russian revolutionary. In 1932, Volodarsk was granted urban-type settlement

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status, which absorbed the original village of Seyma.

Town status was granted to it in 1956.