Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Location
- near Knyazhevo Chuhlomskogo
- Length
- 354 km (220 mi)
- Basin size
- 16,000 square kilometres (6,200 mi )
- Average
- 85 m /s (3,000 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- Volga → Caspian Sea
- River system
- Volga
- Left
- Vocha , Mezenda , Vyoksa , Tyobza , Shacha
- Right
- Shugoma , Svetitsa , Selma , Monza , Obnora
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Kostroma (Russian: Кострома́) is a river in the European part of Russia. It flows through the Kostroma and Yaroslavl Oblasts, and becomes a left tributary of the Volga, which it enters at the Gorky Reservoir, at the city of Kostroma.
Prior to the flooding of the Gorky Reservoir in 1955-1957, the Kostroma River flowed into the Volga within the city limits of Kostroma. The Ipatiev Monastery stands at the old confluence of the Kostroma and the Volga.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kostroma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.