Arapovo is a selo (a larger village) in Bogorodsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Region, located 60 kilometers southwest of Nizhny Novgorod and 20 kilometers west of Bogorodsk; it is the administrative center of the Arapovo Rural Council, which, besides the selo itself, includes the villages of Vorontsovo, Pobedikha, Sannikovo, Timonino, and Shuklino. The selo has a school, an orphanage, a prayer house, and a library.
History
According to one version, the selo took its name from the surname of a landowner, Mikhaylo Arapov, who was granted the lands, as first mentioned in a charter of grant dating from 1606.
People associated with Arapovo
- Hieromartyr Ioann Bystrov, persecuted by the authorities, changed several parishes, and the last place of his ministry was the church of the selo of Arapovo