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Kostroma

Kostroma (, ) is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian cities, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Volga and Kostroma. In the 2021 census, the population is 267,481.

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Kostroma is a historic city in Russia that serves as the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, situated where the Volga and Kostroma rivers meet. As part of the Golden Ring—a group of culturally significant Russian cities—it had a population of about 267,000 as of the 2021 census.

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Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Kostroma
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Кострома
Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline: Kostroma. Fire Tower P7140241 2640.jpg
Russian inhabited locality.image_caption: Fire-observation watchtower in Kostroma (1825-1828)
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position: right
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa: Coat of Arms of Kostroma.svg
Russian inhabited locality.image_flag: Flag of Kostroma (Kostroma Oblast).svg
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Kostroma Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_city_jur: city of oblast significance of Kostroma
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1: Kostroma Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of2: Kostromskoy District
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat: City
Russian inhabited locality.urban_okrug_jur: Kostroma Urban Okrug
Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of1: Kostroma Urban Okrug
Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of2: Kostromskoy Municipal District
Russian inhabited locality.leader_title: Head
Russian inhabited locality.leader_name: Yuri Zhurin
Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census: 268742

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Wikidata facts

Population: 267481
Area: 144.5
Elevation: 110
Official website: www.gradkostroma.ru
Image: Ipatiev02.jpg
Dialing code: 4942

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Commons category: Kostroma
inception: 1152-00-00
Commons gallery: Кострома
time of earliest written record: 1213-01-01
postal code: 156000–156029
native label: Кострома
P12749: Hanns Eisler

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History
Under the Rurikids
Under the Romanovs
During and after the Russian Revolution
Nuclear power referendum
Administrative and municipal status
Geography
Climate
Sights and landmarks
Transportation
Notable people
Twin towns – sister cities
References
Notes
Sources
External links

==History== ===Under the Rurikids=== The official founding year of the city is 1152 by Yury Dolgoruky. Since many scholars believe that early Eastern Slavs tribes arrived in modern-day Belarus, Ukraine and western Russia AD 400 to 600, Kostroma could be much older than previously thought.