Kostroma
Kostroma is the capital city of Kostroma Oblast, and a stop on Russia's Golden Ring circuit. It is a historic city, founded in the 12th century, and served as a sort of northern retreat for the powerful in Muscovy when threatened by southern and western invaders.
- City with about 265,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 110 metres (360 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code KMW
- …is also known as “Kostromna”
- …dates from 1152
- Description: city in the center of European Russia
- Postal code: 156000
Places of Interest
Highlights include Military Academy and Fire lookout tower in Kostroma.
Military Academy
University
The Marshal Semyon Timoshenko Nuclear, Biological and…
Kostroma
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Latitude
57.7679° or 57° 46′ 5″ north
Longitude
40.9269° or 40° 55′ 37″ east
UN/LOCODE
RU KMW
Open location code
9H92QW9G+5Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kostroma” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kostroma”
- Amharic: “ኮስትሮማ”
- Arabic: “كوستروما”
- Armenian: “Կոստրոմա”
- Asturian: “Kostromá”
- Azerbaijani: “Kostroma”
- Bashkir: “Кострома”
- Basque: “Kostroma”
- Belarusian: “Кастрама”
- Bengali: “কস্ট্রোমা”
- Bulgarian: “Кострома”
- Catalan: “Kostromà”
- Cebuano: “Kostroma (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Kostroma”
- Chechen: “Кострома”
- Chinese: “科斯特罗马”
- Chinese: “科斯特羅馬”
- Chuvash: “Кострома”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kostroma”
- Croatian: “Kostroma”
- Czech: “Kostroma”
- Danish: “Kostroma”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kostroma”
- Dutch: “Kostroma”
- Eastern Mari: “Кострома”
- Erzya: “Кострома ош”
- Esperanto: “Kostroma”
- Estonian: “Kostroma”
- Finnish: “Kostroma”
- French: “Kostroma”
- Georgian: “კოსტრომა”
- German: “Kostroma”
- German: “Кострома (ru:)”
- Greek: “Κοστρομά”
- Gujarati: “કોસ્ટ્રોમા”
- Hausa: “Kostroma”
- Hebrew: “קוסטרומה”
- Hindi: “कोस्त्रोमा”
- Hungarian: “Kosztroma”
- Ido: “Kostroma”
- Inari Sami: “Kostroma”
- Indonesian: “Kostroma”
- Irish: “Kostroma”
- Italian: “Kostroma”
- Japanese: “コストロマ”
- Javanese: “Kostroma”
- Kannada: “ಕೊಸ್ಟ್ರೋಮ”
- Kazakh: “Кострома”
- Kirghiz: “Кострома”
- Korean: “코스트로마”
- Ladin: “Kostroma”
- Latin: “Costroma”
- Latvian: “Kostroma”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Costroma”
- Lithuanian: “Kostroma”
- Luxembourgish: “Kostroma”
- Macedonian: “Кострома”
- Malay: “Kostroma”
- Marathi: “कोस्ट्रोमा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kostroma”
- Mingrelian: “კოსტრომა”
- Moksha: “Кострома”
- Mongolian: “Кострома”
- Northern Frisian: “Kostroma”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kostroma”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kostroma”
- Norwegian: “Kostroma”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kostroma”
- Oromo: “Kostroma”
- Ossetian: “Кострома”
- Panjabi: “ਕੋਸਤਰੋਮਾ”
- Persian: “کوستروما”
- Polish: “Kostroma”
- Portuguese: “Costroma”
- Portuguese: “Kostroma”
- Pushto: “کوسٹروما”
- Pushto: “کوسټروما”
- Romanian: “Kostroma”
- Russian: “Кострома́”
- Scots: “Kostroma”
- Serbian: “Кострома”
- Silesian: “Kostroma (mjasto)”
- Silesian: “Kostroma”
- Sinhala: “කොස්ට්රෝමා”
- Slovak: “Kostroma”
- Slovenian: “Kostroma”
- Somali: “Kostroma”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوستروما”
- Spanish: “Kostromá”
- Swahili: “Kostroma”
- Swedish: “Kostroma”
- Tagalog: “Kostroma”
- Tajik: “Кострома”
- Talysh: “Kostroma”
- Tamil: “கொஸ்ட்ரோமா”
- Tatar: “Кострома”
- Telugu: “కోస్ట్రోమా”
- Thai: “คอสโตรมา”
- Turkish: “Kostroma”
- Udmurt: “Кострома”
- Ukrainian: “Кострома”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kostroma”
- Urdu: “کوستروما”
- Uzbek: “Kostroma”
- Veps: “Kostrom”
- Vietnamese: “Kostroma”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kostroma”
- Welsh: “Kostroma”
- Western Frisian: “Kostroma”
- Western Mari: “Кострома”
- Wu Chinese: “科斯特罗马”
- Yue Chinese: “科斯特羅馬”
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