Lukoyanov

Lukoyanov lies near the upper reaches of the Tyosha, in the country between the Oka and the Sura. A settlement grew here in the sixteenth century around a mill associated with Ivashka Lukoyanov. The village passed through several owners before becoming an economic village administered by the state in the eighteenth century. Catherine II's administrative reforms made it a district town of the Nizhny Novgorod governorship in 1779.