Volgorechensk (Russian: Волгоре́ченск) is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, on the right bank of the Volga River, 40 kilometers (25 mi) south of Kostroma, the administrative center of the oblast.

[9] The town was founded in 1964 as a settlement for the employees of the Kostroma Power Station.

It was granted town status in 1994, and in 2005 the status of a city district.

[2] Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with two rural localities,[10] incorporated as the town of oblast significance of Volgorechensk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

[1] As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Volgorechensk is incorporated as Volgorechensk Urban Okrug.