Kstovo is a Russian town, the administrative center of the Kstovo District of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

The town is located on the bank of the Cheboksary water reservoir, 29 km to the southeast of Nizhny Novgorod.

It has a railway station.

The town with the population of 66 989 people (as of 2013) takes the area of 64 sq.km.

History of Kstovo

It was first recorded as the Kstovsky Village in the early 15th century.

It was Kstovo Village from 1818, an industrial settlement from 1954 and became a town in 1957.

Architecture and Sights

The Veliki Vrag Village in the vicinity of Kstovo harbors the Kazan Church of the Mother of God built in 1792.

Not far from Kstovo there is an archaeological monument: 18 early man sites of the Mesolithic, Neolithic and the Bronze Ages.