Kostroma Governorate Костромская губерния
Governorate of the Russian Empire
1796–1929
Coat of arms
Kostroma Governorate within the Russian Empire
Capital	Kostroma
History
• Established	1796
• Disestablished	1929
Preceded by Succeeded by Kostroma Viceroyalty Kostroma Okrug

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.

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)

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• 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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