Kostroma Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
1. Nikolai Ivanovich Smirnov (1917)
Soviet Admiral
Nikolai Ivanovich Smirnov was a Soviet Navy Admiral and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Smirnov was born in a peasant family and graduated from an agricultural institute. He...
2. Viktor Kress (1948)
Russian Politician
Viktor Melkiorovich Kress is the governor of Tomsk Oblast Russia. Both his parents were ethnic Germans. Kress was born into a peasant family with five brothers and a sister.
3. Valery Shantsev (1947)
Russian Politiican
Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev born 29 June 1947 in Susanino Kostroma Oblast is the governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast since August 2005 when he replaced Gennady Khodyrev. He was previously the...
4. Vladimir Kostrov (1935)
Russian Poet
Vladimir Andreyevich Kostrov is a Russian poet. He is also a professor at the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow. He has been awarded the State Award of Russia...
5. Alexander Zinoviev (1922)
Russian Writer
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev was a prominent Russian logician and dissident writer of social critique. Born to a poor provincial family he distinguished himself in the Second World War and later...