Kostroma Governorate (Russian: Костромская губерния, romanized: Kostromskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1929. Its administrative center was in the city of Kostroma.
Administrative division
Kostroma Governorate consisted of 12 uyezds (their administrative centres in brackets):
- Buysky Uyezd (Buy)
- Varnavinsky Uyezd (Varnavino)
- Vetluzhsky Uyezd (Vetluga)
- Galichsky Uyezd (Galich)
- Kineshemsky Uyezd (Kineshma)
- Kologrivsky Uyezd (Kologriv)
- Kostromskoy Uyezd (Kostroma)
- Makaryevsky Uyezd (Makaryev)
- Nerekhtsky Uyezd (Nerekhta)
- Soligalichsky Uyezd (Soligalich)
- Chukhlomskoy Uyezd (Chukhloma)
- Yuryevetsky Uyezd (Yuryevets)
History
Demographics
| Language | Native speakers | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | 1,381,376 | 99.7% |
| Mari | 2,001 | 0.1% |
| Other languages | 3.638 | 0.2% |
| Total | 1,387,015 | 100.00 |
References
- ^ "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897. Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей" [The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897]. www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
- William Henry Beable (1919), "Governments or Provinces of the Former Russian Empire: Kostroma", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook – via Open Library
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