Kostroma Governorate
1796–1929 unit of Russia
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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.
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| Kostroma Governorate Костромская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| 1796–1929 | |||||||||
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| Kostroma Governorate within the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Kostroma | ||||||||
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• Established | 1796 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1929 | ||||||||
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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)
