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3 unusual facts about Kostroma


Aleksandra Ishimova

After childhood in her birthplace of Kostroma, Aleksandra Ishimova studied in private boarding schools in Saint Petersburg.

Prince Dimitri Romanov

After being widowed in 1989 he married Dorrit Reventlow (born 1942) in Kostroma on 28 July 1993.

Sojuzpatent

Sojuzpatent has offices in Moscow, Astrakhan, Vologda, Kirov, Kostroma, and Novosibirsk; it is the headquarters of the national group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) since its foundation in 1965.


Alexander Semyonov

Aleksandr Alekseyevich Semyonov (b. 1983), Russian footballer with FC Dynamo Kostroma

Arseny Semionov

In 1950-1970s Arseny Semionov painted enthusiastically ancient Russian city of Pskov, Staritsa, Izborsk, Torzhok, Suzdal, Staraya Ladoga, Kostroma.

Kostroma Moose Farm

It is located near the village of Sumarokovo in Krasnoselsky District of Kostroma Oblast, some 25 km east of the city of Kostroma.

Menshikov Tower

The church was initially built in 1707 to order of Alexander Menshikov by Ivan Zarudny assisted by Domenico Trezzini, a team of Italian-Swiss craftsmen from Ticino and Freyburg cantons and Russian stonemasons from Kostroma and Yaroslavl.

Mezha

Mezha River (Unzha) is a river in the Kostroma Oblast, tributary of the Unzha River.

Mongol invasion of Rus'

Thereupon Batu Khan divided his army into smaller units, which ransacked fourteen cities of modern-day Russia: Rostov, Uglich, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Kashin, Ksnyatin, Gorodets, Galich, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yuriev-Polsky, Dmitrov, Volokolamsk, Tver, and Torzhok.

Nikolsk, Vologda Oblast

There are no railroads around Nikolsk and the closest railway stations with regular passenger service are Kotlas in Arkhangelsk Oblast and Sharya in Kostroma Oblast.

Theotokos Fyodorovskaya

As soon as he was cured of palsy, Pleshkov commissioned Gury Nikitin, the most famous wall-painter of 17th-century Russia, who hailed from Kostroma, to paint a copy of the miraculous icon.

Yaroslavl Oblast

Yaroslavl Oblast was created on March 11, 1936, it included most of the former Yaroslavl Governorate added with a big part of the foremer Kostroma Governorate, along with the City of Kostroma itself, and Pereslavl-Zalessky of the Vladimir Governorate.

In 1719 after a new administrative reform territories of the modern oblast were separated between the Yaroslavl and Uglich Provinces of the Saint Petersburg Governorate and Pereslavl and Kostroma Provinces of the Moscow Governorate.


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