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Kstovo is a town and the administrative center of Kstovsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, 22 kilometers (14 mi) southeast of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast.
The village of Kstovo was mentioned as early as the 14th century.
With the construction of Novogorkovsky Oil Refinery, which started operations on August 18, 1958) 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.
Since then, the western part of the town centered on the original
village of Kstovo, and, still quite rural in character, has been
commonly referred to as the Old Kstovo (Staroye Kstovo), while the newer eastern part, built in the 1950s and still expanding, is known as the New Kstovo (Novoye Kstovo).
As the New Kstovo expanded over the years, it completely or partially displaced several smaller villages.
Kstovo was granted urban-type settlement status in 1954 and town status in 1957.The town has a puppet theater, a Palace of Culture, a public library, and an active chess
club. The movie theater was popular with the residents during the
Soviet era, but closed down after the advent of home video. Part of its
premises were used by an Eldorado electronics store for a few years in
the early 2000s.
Indoor water park
Atoll was opened in February 2015 in Kstovo's Lenin Square.
This is the
first facility of this kind in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, and is intended
to serve the entire Nizhny Novgorod metropolitan area.