| Post: | Governor |
| Body: | Kostroma Oblast |
| Insignia: | Coat of arms of Kostroma Oblast.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 125px |
| Insigniacaption: | Coat of arms of Kostroma Oblast |
| Incumbent: | Sergey Sitnikov |
| Seat: | Kostroma |
| Incumbentsince: | 13 April 2012 |
| Termlength: | 5 years |
| Formation: | 1991 |
The Governor of Kostroma Oblast (Russian: Губернатор Костромской области) is the head of government of Kostroma Oblast, a federal subject of Russia.
The position was introduced in 1991 as Head of Administration of Kostroma Oblast. The Governor is elected by direct popular vote for a term of five years.
| Portrait | Governor | Tenure | Party | Election | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valery Arbuzov (born 1939) | 14 December 1991[1] – 5 January 1997 | Independent | |||
| 2 | Viktor Shershunov (1950–2007) | 5 January 1997 – 20 September 2007[2] | 1996----2000----2005 | |||
| United Russia[3] | ||||||
| — | Yury Tsikunov[4] (born 1947) | 20 September 2007 – 25 October 2007 | Independent | |||
| 3 | Igor Slyunyayev (born 1966) | 25 October 2007[5] – 13 April 2012 | United Russia | 2007 | ||
| – | Sergey Sitnikov (born 1963) | 13 April 2012 – 28 April 2012 | Independent | 2012----2015----2020 | ||
| 4 | 28 April 2012 – 15 May 2015 | |||||
| — | 15 May 2015 – 15 October 2015 | |||||
| (4) | since 15 October 2015 | |||||