10 Sights in Kostroma, Russia (with Map and Images)

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 Operation Uranus of November 1942 to the assaults on East Prussia, Königsberg and Manchuria.

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The monument to Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich and peasant Ivan Susanin is a monument erected in Kostroma in 1851 in honor of the legendary feat during the Time of Troubles. The author of the monument is the sculptor V. I. Demut-Malinovsky. The monument was located in the center of the city, in the middle of Susaninskaya Square. It was destroyed in 1918-1928. In 1967, a monument to Ivan Susanin by the sculptor N. A. Lavinsky was erected in Kostroma.

Wikipedia: Памятник Ивану Сусанину (RU)

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.

Wikipedia: Церковь Ильи Пророка из села Верхний Березовец (RU)

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.

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The Church of the Savior of the Miraculous Image on Zaprudnya (Spaso-Zaprudnenskaya) is an Orthodox church of the Kostroma diocese on the northern outskirts of Kostroma, on the right bank of the Zaprudnya River, a tributary of the Kostroma. Built in 1754, it was not closed in Soviet times.

Wikipedia: Церковь Спаса на Запрудне (RU)

The Borschov House in Kostroma is an architectural monument of the classical era, one of the largest estates in the city of the first quarter of the XIX century, which has an extremely important urban planning significance in the development of the center. Architect N. I. Metlin.

Wikipedia: Дом Борщова (RU)

The youth 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.

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The building of the former guardhouse in Kostroma is an architectural monument of the late classicism (Empire) era, one of the sights of the city, which is part of the architectural ensemble of Susaninskaya Square. The architect is P. I. Fursov.

Wikipedia: Гауптвахта (Кострома) (RU)

The Church of the All-Merciful Savior from the village of Fominskoye is an exhibit of the Kostroma Museum of Wooden Architecture, a former parish summer church built in the village of Fominskoye, Kostroma Region, in 1712.

Wikipedia: Церковь Всемилостивого Спаса из села Фоминское (RU)

The fire tower is an outstanding architectural monument of the classical era in Kostroma, one of the sights of the city, the main decoration of the central Susaninskaya Square. The architect is Pyotr Fursov.

Wikipedia: Пожарная каланча (Кострома) (RU)