Kostroma has an amazing history of its education and formation, since ancient times. Woods of Zavolzhjie rich with natural gifts, have involved in the end of XI century of the slavic colonists who have selected for creation of the settlement a place where the river Kostroma flows intoVolga, and nature was full of valuable fur-bearing animals, deposits of salt, fish and timber. About half a century Kostroma was in the settlement-landing stage status, in the middle of the same XII century, Yuri Dolgoruky, strengthening the northern borders of the Rostov-Suzdal principality, laid in this place the fortress Kostroma.