Culture, Recreation and Sports
Kstovo's best known sporting venue is The World Academy of Sambo, which has hosted many national and international Sambo wrestling competitions. Its origins go back to 1964, when the first local Sambo club was formed. In October 1976, a Sambo School building was opened on the western edge of the city; in 1995, in time for the Sambo World Cup, a new, taller building was constructed next to it, the facility becoming known as the "World Academy of Sambo".
The town also has a puppet theater, a palace of culture, a public library, and an active chess club.
The movie theater (originally named "Saturn", then "50 Let VLKSM" (i.e., "50 Years' Anniversary of Komsomol", and finally "Rus'"), was popular with the citizens during the Soviet era, but closed down after the advent of VCRs and DVDs. Part of its premises were used by an Eldorado electronics store for a few years in the early 2000s.
The spiritual needs of the Christians of the town are served by three Orthodox churches in the city and immediately adjacent villages. The Church of Our Lady of Kazan in the Old Kstovo was built in the late 19th century, closed during the Communist era, when its building was used for a printshop, and re-opened and augmented in the early 1990s.
Another Church of Our Lady of Kazan is located in the village of Velikiy Vrag, just northeast of the city; it was built in 1792 and is now protected as a heritage site, owned by the federal government. Finally, the small Church of St.Vladimir in Vishenki village, just south of the city line, is the closest to most of the city's residential neighborhoods.
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