[citation needed] With the construction of Novogorkovsky Oil Refinery, which started operations on August 18, 1958,[9]) a new settlement was built a few kilometers to the northwest of the old village of Kstovo, on the high ground between the Volga and the Kudma Rivers.

[3] Kstovo's main industrial zone is located south of the town, on the southern side of the Kudma River.

Although commuter trains from Nizhny Novgorod's Myza terminal stop not far from both the Old and the New Kstovo, the stations are not particularly conveniently located.

Throughout most of the town's history, commuter trains were fairly slow and only ran two or three times a day, and thus were popular mostly with retirees and other persons eligible for free or discount fares.

There are also shuttle buses from Kstovo's Lenina Square to the Mega shopping mall in Fedyakovo, in the western part of Kstovsky District.

Nizhny Novgorod Technological University offers evening classes in Kstovo for the students studying in its distance education chemical engineering program.

[19] Nizhny Novgorod Military Engineering College, founded in 1801 in St. Petersburg and moved in 1960 to Kaliningrad, received its current name in 1995, when it was transferred to Kstovo.

[citation needed] Indoor water park Atoll was opened in February 2015 in Kstovo's Lenin Square.

The Church of Our Lady of Kazan in Old Kstovo was built in the late 19th century, closed during the Soviet era, when its building was used for a printshop, and re-opened in the early 1990s.

Finally, the Church of Our Lady of Vladimir, technically located in the village of Vishenki, is the closest to most of the city's residential neighborhoods.