Kostroma State University (Russian: Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Костромской государственный университет» (КГУ)) is a public university in Kostroma, the capital city of Kostroma Oblast in Russia.

[2] On November 1, 1931, the State Planning Committee of the RSFSR approved the proposal to open a textile institute in Kostroma.

[3] On July 26, 1932, the People's Commissariat of Light Industry appointed V. G. Bobrov as director of the Kostroma Textile Institute.

The building of the former diocesan school, then occupied by land management, forestry, reclamation and flax technical schools (15 Dzerzhinskogo), was allocated for the future institute.

As part of the merger, higher budgets invested in the new university.