Kostroma

There are about 288 000 people living in Kostroma, though the city is not considered to be a large one. The ethnical structure is quite simple: the Kostroma’s population is generally Russian. The language people use in everyday life is mostly Russian but there is one particularity about the pronunciation: Kostroma’s inhabitants do pronounce the letter {o} distinctly which is unusual of Central Russia’s way to pronounce words.
Kostroma is also famous for a number of prominent people who lived and acted in Kostroma. During the time of Polish-Lithuanian intervention in the beginning of the 18th century Kostroma played a prominent role in the formation of people's volunteer corps leaded by Minin and Pozharsky. Another representative of Kostroma, peasant Ivan Susanin took the enemies to thick woods and deadly swamps, where he met his death, but where the enemy troops vanished, too.