The first issue of the newspaper Kostroma Provincial Vedomosti was published on January 8, 1838. The first newspapers are not lik …
The Cathedral of the Epiphany-Anastasiain Monastery is the oldest in Kostroma. It was built in 1559. One of the biggest donors wa …
The stars in Kostroma have been watched for a long time. “Kostromskaya Kulibin”, merchant Alexander Krasilnikov back in the 1820s …
Architect Kaleria Gustavovna Torop was born in Kostroma on March 2, 1917. For a long time she left her hometown - studied in Mosc …
The inventor Ivan Dmitrievich Zvorykin was born on January 26, 1870 in the city of Murom, Vladimir province. He belonged to the sa …
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Fedor Vasilyevich Chizhov was born in Kostroma on February 27, 1811. The family of his father, a …
Artist Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev was born on February 23, 1878. In 1922, the writer Yevgeny Zamyatin visited his Petrograd apa …
Writer Alexei Feofilaktovich Pisemsky was born on March 10, 1820 in the estate of Ramenskoye Chukhlom district of Kostroma provinc …
In the evening of October 7, 1834, Emperor Nicholas I arrived in Kostroma from Yaroslavl. In an open wheelchair, he drove to the I …
On March 17, 1781, Catherine II approved the plan for the city of Kostroma and other cities of the Kostroma governorship. The Emp …
The war with Napoleon was coming to an end, when the son Eutychios was born in the family of the local father, Peter's father. The …
On May 1, 1928, a monument to Vladimir Lenin (Ulyanov) was opened in Kostroma. How many sculptural images of the leader stood in …
On May 14, 1767, Russian Empress Catherine II arrived in Kostroma. The young lady recently carried out a coup. It has only been f …
May 20, 1913 in Kostroma laid a monument to the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov. That day, Kostroma received material e …
June 10, 1847 in Kostroma opened the Mariinsky orphanage. It was a difficult time. Manufactures have gone bankrupt, and mechanica …
Russian naval commander Pavel Alexandrovich Pereleshin was born on June 27, 1820 in the estate of Shchetinino, Kostroma province. …
Poet Julia Valerianovna Zhadovskaya was born on June 29, 1824. In the life of Julia Zhadovskaya everything was against her. She w …
“Long before the pier, when against the background of blue wooded distances, white Kostroma bell towers gently appear and ... you …
People's Artist of the USSR Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin was born on July 13, 1923 in the village of Rameshki Chukhlom district of K …
The road bridge across the Volga in Kostroma was opened on September 12, 1970. While the main modes of transport were horse and r …
On November 7, 1899, a state telephone station was opened in Kostroma. For its placement bought the former house of merchants Dur …
November 13, 1870 solemnly consecrated Kostroma water supply. Before that, water was drawn directly from the Volga and other rive …
Friends! If you are in Kostroma for the first time, in addition to a sightseeing tour of the city, I highly recommend you to visit …
On December 16, 1866, the Charter of the New Kostroma Linen Manufactory was approved. We know how much the document has been in S …
