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Kostroma is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian towns, it is located at the confluence of the Volga and Kostroma Rivers. Population:
Kostroma is a city in Russia.
Kostroma may also refer to:
- Kostroma Oblast, a federal subject of Russia
- Kostroma River, a river in Kostroma and Yaroslavl Oblasts, Russia
- Kostroma (inhabited locality), several inhabited localities in Russia
- Kostroma Airport, an airport in the city of Kostroma, Russia
- Kostroma (deity), a Slavic goddess
- Kostroma (cattle), a Russian cattle breed
- Kostroma (horse), thoroughbred racehorse
- Russian submarine Kostroma (B-276), Russian Sierra-class submarine
Kostroma is an East Slavic fertility goddess. Her name is derived from костёр (kosteor), Russian word for bonfire.
The rites of Semik were devoted to her. During this festival a disguised girl or a straw figure portrayed Kostroma. First, a scarecrow was honored and revered. Then, participants of the rite mourned the death of Kostroma, and burned or tore the scarecrow. Rituals with Kostroma were aimed at improving soil fertility.
The scarecrow of Kostroma is part of East Slavic folklore.
Category:Slavic goddesses Category:Fertility goddesses
Kostroma (foaled 1986 in Ireland) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who competed successfully in Ireland as well as in the United States, where she set a world record for a mile and an eighth on turf at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.
Kostroma is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Urban localities- Kostroma, a city in Kostroma Oblast;
- Kostroma, Belgorod Oblast, a selo in Prokhorovsky District of Belgorod Oblast
- Kostroma, Kamchatka Krai, a selo in Karaginsky District of Kamchatka Krai
- Kostroma, Sverdlovsk Oblast, a village in Kostinsky Selsoviet of Alapayevsky District in Sverdlovsk Oblast
Usage examples of "kostroma".
All the nobility, for fifty versts around, including Prince Paul and the chief families of Kostroma, were invited.
He'd been counting on the confusion to get his Cinnabars out of Kostroma City.
For what seemed forever he'd been focused on the relative location of three points: Kostroma, the Princess Cecile, and the Bremse pursuing her.
For what seemed forever hed been focused on the relative location of three points: Kostroma, the Princess Cecile, and the Bremse pursuing her.
She hadn't really killed a hundred Alliance soldiers on Kostroma with single shots to the head, snapping the rounds off every time a target offered.
Ireland had never harmed him at the Academy, and if he wanted to scrape acquaintance now with the Hero of Kostroma, well, that wasn't a terrible crime.
It was as bad as the mob of water taxis that had greeted Adele when she stepped off the transport that brought her to Kostroma.