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Founded: 1944
Governor: Viktor Andreevich Shershunov (elected on December 22, 1996, re-elected December 24, 2000)
Federation Council Representatives: Vasily Mikhailovich Duma (executive, term expires December 2010); Andrei Leonidovich Khazin (legislative, term expires December 2005)
Duma deputy: Yevgeny Alexandrovich Trepov (Kostroma district)(United Russia)
Population: 737,500 (2002 census)
Capital: Kostroma (population 279,400), 372 km from Moscow
Federal district: Central
Economic region: Central
Time zone: Moscow, GMT +3, EST +8
Geography: Kostroma is located in central European Russia and shares a border with Ivanovo, Yaroslavl, Volgograd, Kirov, and Nizhny Novgorod regions. Most of the area is a plain with some slight elevation in the center of the territory. The Volga river and its tributaries the Kostroma, Uzhnya and Vetluga flow through the region.
Urban population: 67%, Rural population: 33%
Ethnic make-up:
Economy: Since forests cover 75% of the region, important timber and woodworking industries have developed. Traditionally, Kostroma was a center of jewelry- making and these traditions continue.
Contact information
Governor
Viktor Andreevich Shershunov
15 Ulitsa Dzerzhinskogo
Kostroma 156006
Tel.: +7 (494) 231 34 72; 231 70 90
Fax: +7 (494) 231 33 95
Email: info@kos-obl.kmtn.ru; shershunov@kos-obl.kmtn.ru
Chairman of the Duma
Valery Petrovich Izhitsky
2 Ploshad Sovetskaya
Kostroma 156000
Tel.: +7 (494) 231 62 52
Fax: +7 (494) 231 21 73
Email: duma_onf@kmtn.ru
Press service contact
Nina Alexandrovna Molokova
15 Ulitsa Dzerzhinskogo
Kostroma 156006
Tel/Fax: +7 (494) 231 31 32
Email: ushanov@kos-obl.kmtn.ru
Representative to the Government of the Russian Federation
Gennady Petrovich Pilipenko
19 Novy Arbat, office 1811-1813
Moscow 103025
Tel.: +7 (495) 203 45 98
Fax: +7 (495) 203 41 69
last updated December 1, 2005
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