<p>A refrigerator (1) is provided with: a cold storage compartment (20) defined and formed by a thermally insulating wall and having an open front face; a vertically extending cold air discharge duct (30) provided on the inner end-side inner wall surface (20a) of the cold storage compartment (20) at the center thereof in the left-right direction thereof and having formed therein a cold air discharge passage (31) through which cold air is caused to flow; and a cold air discharge opening (32) for discharging the cold air, which has flowed through the cold air discharge passage (31), into the cold storage compartment (20). The cold air discharge passage (31) has an elliptical cross-sectional shape.</p>
