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Kstovo — Refinery

Refinery · Kstovo · recorded strikes: 3

Refinery

Region: Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Capacity: 17 Mt/yr

Coordinates: 56.1000, 44.1608

Share of refining: 5.2% of what the project tracks

To the Ukrainian border: ~800 km as the crow flies

Status: operational (as of 10 Oct 2026)

Strikes: 3

Days offline in a year: 75 days

Kstovo: refinery. Capacity is 17 Mt a year, 5.2% of the refining this project tracks, ranked 6th of 40 refineries on the map. 3 strikes recorded, from 4 Nov 2025 to 26 Aug 2026; that puts it 13th of 41 for its type. Under the project’s recovery model it has been out of action for 75 days in the past 12 months and is back in service. The Ukrainian border is about 800 km away in a straight line.

The map has 8 objects in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast; 6 of them have been struck.

Strike history

• 26 Aug 2026dronesNight of 26 August: the LUKOIL-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery in Kstovo (Nizhny Novgorod region) was hit by drones again — local residents reported a series of explosions followed by a large fire, and a column of thick smoke over the plant was caught on video. The Russian side has not acknowledged a strike on the plant: the defence ministry reported 27 drones shot down over the region, and the governor said nothing about damage to any enterprise. Ukraine's General Staff had not separately confirmed this target at the time of collection — its last claim against the plant was for the night of 2 July, when the AVT-6 primary distillation unit was hit. The refinery can process about 17 million tonnes a year and is one of the four largest in Russia. The basis here is reporting by Ukrainian outlets and monitoring channels; there is no official confirmation from either side so far. · 143 days after the previous
• 5 Apr 2026Repeat strike on the refinery in Kstovo. · 152 days after the previous
• 4 Nov 2025Attack on the «Lukoil» refinery in Kstovo (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast).

Nearby

• Nizhny Novgorod (residential buildings) — Other site · 27 km
• Surovatikha (ICBM elimination centre) — Space / rockets · 40 km
• Dalneye Konstantinovo-5 (NIISK) — Space / rockets · 43 km
• Dzerzhinsk (residential buildings) — Other site · 46 km
• Dzerzhinsk — Plant / MIC · 52 km
• Vladimir (residential buildings) — Other site · 233 km

Project sources: en.wikipedia.org · 2025 Russian fuel crisis · en.wikipedia.org · Petroleum industry in Russia · en.wikipedia.org · List of ship losses during the Russo… · en.wikipedia.org · Sinking of the Moskva · en.wikipedia.org · Ukrainian attacks on the Russian shadow… · united24media.com · how many russian oil refineries has… · www.twz.com · ukraine claims scores of russian ships…