Kostroma Governorate () 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 + Population by spoken language in Kostroma Governorate (1897) Language Native speakers Percentage Russian1,381,37699.7% Mari2,0010.1% Other languages3.6380.2% Total 1,387,015 100.00
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