Central Russia
Kostroma Oblast
Kostromskoy District

Kostroma

Kostroma is the capital city of , and a stop on '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.
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  • Type: City with 266,000 residents
  • Description: city in the center of European Russia
  • Also known as: “Kostromna”
  • Postal code: 156000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fire lookout tower in Kostroma and Guard house, Kostroma.

Photo: WASD, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Museum
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum.

University
The Marshal Semyon Timoshenko Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense is a military university in Kostroma training officers for service in the Russian NBC Defense Troops of the Russian Ground Forces.

Kostroma

Latitude
57.7679° or 57° 46′ 5″ north
Longitude
40.9269° or 40° 55′ 37″ east
Population
266,000
Elevation
109 metres (358 feet)
Inception
1152
IATA airport code
KMW
United Nations Location Code
RU KMW
Open location code
9H92QW9G+5Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 148901123
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
543878
Wiki­data ID
Q2592
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Satellite Map

Discover Kostroma from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kostroma” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kostroma”
  • 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: “Kostroma”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “קוסטרומה”
  • Hindi: “कोस्त्रोमा”
  • Hungarian: “Kosztroma”
  • Ido: “Kostroma”
  • Inari Sami: “Kostroma”
  • Indonesian: “Kostroma”
  • Irish: “Kostroma”
  • Italian: “Kostroma”
  • Japanese: “コストロマ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಸ್ಟ್ರೋಮ”
  • Kirghiz: “Кострома”
  • Korean: “코스트로마”
  • Ladin: “Kostroma”
  • Latin: “Costroma”
  • Latvian: “Kostroma”
  • Lithuanian: “Kostroma”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kostroma”
  • Macedonian: “Кострома”
  • Malay: “Kostroma”
  • Marathi: “कोस्ट्रोमा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kostroma”
  • Mingrelian: “კოსტრომა”
  • Moksha: “Кострома”
  • Mongolian: “Кострома”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kostroma (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kostroma”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kostroma”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kostroma”
  • Norwegian: “Kostroma”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kostroma”
  • Ossetian: “Кострома”
  • Persian: “کوستروما”
  • Polish: “Kostroma”
  • Portuguese: “Costroma”
  • Portuguese: “Kostroma”
  • Pushto: “کوسټروما”
  • Romanian: “Kostroma”
  • Russian: “Кострома”
  • Russian: “Кострома́”
  • Scots: “Kostroma”
  • Serbian: “Кострома”
  • Silesian: “Kostroma (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Kostroma”
  • Sinhala: “කොස්ට්‍රෝමා”
  • Slovak: “Kostroma”
  • Slovenian: “Kostroma”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوستروما”
  • Spanish: “Kostroma”
  • 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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