10 Sights in Kostroma, Russia (with Map and Images)
Here you can find interesting sights in Kostroma, Russia. Click on a marker on the map to view details about the sight. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 10 sights are available in Kostroma, Russia.
List of cities in Russia Sightseeing Tours in Kostroma1. А. М. Василевскому
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky was a Soviet career-officer in the Red Army who attained the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943. He served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (1942-1945) and Deputy Minister of Defense during World War II, and as Minister of Defense from 1949 to 1953. As the Chief of the General Staff from 1942 to 1945, Vasilevsky became involved in planning and coordinating almost all the decisive Soviet offensives in World War II, from the Stalingrad counteroffensive of November 1942 to the assaults on East Prussia, Königsberg and Manchuria.
2. Памятник Ивану Сусанину
The monument to Tsar Mikhail Fedorovic and peasant Ivan Susanin was erected in Kostroma in 1851 to commemorate legendary feats during turbulent times. The author of the monument is sculptor V. I. Demut-Malinovsky. The monument is located in the center of the city, in the center of Susaniskaya Square. It was destroyed in 1918-1928. In 1967, a monument to sculptor N. A. Lavinsky's Ivan Susanen was erected in Kostroma.
3. Ильинская церковь
The Church of the Prophet Elijah in the village of Verkhniy Berezovets in the Soligalichsky district of the Kostroma region is a wooden parish two-story summer church and one of the exhibits at the Kostroma Museum of Wooden Architecture. There are two churches in the same building at the same time: the "warm" intercession church on the first floor and the "cold" prophet Elijah church on the second floor.
4. Ипатьевский монастырь.
The Ipatiev Monastery, sometimes translated into English as Hypatian Monastery, is a male monastery situated on the bank of the Kostroma River just opposite the city of Kostroma. It was founded around 1330 by a Tatar convert, Prince Chet, whose male-line descendants include Solomonia Saburova and Tsar Boris Godunov, and is dedicated to St. Hypatios of Gangra.
5. Дом Борщова
Borshchov’s house in Kostroma is a monument of architecture of the era of classicism, one of the largest estates in the city of the first quarter of the 19th century, which has an extremely important urban planning value in the development of the center. Architect N. I. Metlin.
6. Московская застава.
Young mountain is a street in the historical center of Kostroma. It connects Susaninskaya Square and May 1, going down from the monument to Ivan Susanin to the Volga River. Basically retained historical development, which is of considerable interest.
7. Храм Апостола и Евангелиста Иоанна Богослова
The Church of the Holy Apostle and the Evangelist John the Theologian is the Orthodox Church, built in 1687 in the city of Kostroma. Located near the Ipatievsky Monastery, in Ipatievskaya Sloboda on the street named after the writer Evgeny Zetrov.
8. Гауптвахта
The building of the former guard room in Kostroma, an architectural monument from the late classical (imperial) era, is one of the city's landmarks and is part of the Susanenskaya Square complex. The architect is P. I. Fursov.
9. Пожарная каланча
Fire Kalancha in Kostroma is an outstanding monument of architecture of the era of classicism, one of the sights of the city, the main decoration of the Central Susaninskaya Square. Architect P. I. Fursov.
10. Спасо-Преображенский кафедральный собор Костромской и Ярославской епархии
The Main Transfiguration Church is the cathedral of Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church Yaroslavl and Kostroma Parish, located in Kostroma City on the right bank of Volga River, No.4 Volga River Street.
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