Major historic touns include Kostroma, Sharya, Nerekhta, Galich, Soligalich, an Makaryev. Textile industries hae been developit thare syne the early 18t century. The oblast wis detached frae Yaroslavl Oblast in 1944.
The govrenor o the oblast wis Viktor Shershunov frae 1997 till his daith in a caur crash on September 20, 2007. As o 2011, Igor Slyunyayev is the govrenor.
Frae c. 300 CE the whole current aurie o Kostroma wi exception the aurie east o River Unzha wis pairt o historical Finno-Ugric fowk' lands, lik the Merya fowk an thair loose tribal confederation. Thare wur at least 109 Merya settlements locatit in the aurie o which the maist important belaw mentioned tradin centers an important hill fortresses wur later recordit bi the Roushies as thay foondit touns in the late 9t tae 12t centuries.
The main industrial sectors include the fuel, chemical an petrochemical, forest, woodwirkin (lummer, plywood, chipbuird, feebrebuird, an furnitur), pulp an paper, fuid (alcoholic beverages an starch), licht (linen, hemp, an jute faibrics; cleidin, shuin, an knittit guids), biggin material, pouer an ingineerin excavators, machine tuils, an equipment for the textile, chemical, fuid, an widwirkin industries.[12]
The jewelry tred began developin in Kostroma in the 19t century. Engravin, siller niello (siller wi black engravin), an ornaments wi coloured gless an enamel insets are some ensaumples o the airt. The lairgest centre o the jewelry industry is the veelage o Krasnoe-on-Volga.
Agriculture is ane o Kostroma Oblast's maist important sectors. Rye, wheat, baurley, an aits are grown here, an beekeepin an plant cultivation are expandin. Traditional flax cultivation an processin is revivin. Housomeivver, agricultur in the region is mainly orientit towards livestock fermin, e.g., beef an dairy cattle, pigs, sheep, an poutrie. Agricultural land occupees 940,000 hectares in the Oblast, includin 26,400 hectares allottit tae individual ferms an 551,000 hectares o cropland.[12]
Oblast is bund tae ither Roushie regions bi roads, railroads (6-7 oors frae Moscow) an air routes. Kostroma Airport serves tae let fowk flee regularly inside Oblast an unregularly tae Moscow.
23,194 fowk wur registered frae admeenistrative databases, an coud no declare an ethnicity. It is estimatit that the proportion o ethnicities in this group is the same as that o the declared group.[16]
↑Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", No. 20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г. (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).
↑Госстандарт Российской Федерации. №ОК 024-95 27 декабря 1995 г. «Общероссийский классификатор экономических регионов. 2. Экономические районы», в ред. Изменения №5/2001 ОКЭР. (Gosstandart of the Russian Federation. #OK 024-95 December 27, 1995 Russian Classification of Economic Regions. 2. Economic Regions, as amended by the Amendment #5/2001 OKER. ).
↑"Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 Juin 2011. Retrieved 19 Januar 2019.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
↑Offeecial ootthrou the Roushie Federation accordin tae Airticle 68.1 o the Constitution o Roushie.
Костромская областная Дума. Закон №300-4-ЗКО от 24 апреля 2008 г. «Устав Костромской области», в ред. Закона №464-4-ЗКО от 13 апреля 2009 г. «О внесении поправок в Устав Костромской области». Вступил в силу по истечении десяти дней после дня официального публикования. Опубликован: "СП — нормативные документы", №66 (1314), 30 апреля 2008 г. (Kostroma Oblast Duma. Law #300-4-ZKO of April 24, 2008 Charter of Kostroma Oblast, as amended by the Law #464-4-ZKO of April 13, 2009 On Amending the Charter of Kostroma Oblast. Effective as of the date ten days after the official publication date.).