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Kaluga

Kaluga (, ) is a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, Russia. It stands on the Oka River southwest of Moscow. Its population was 337,058 at the 2021 census.

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Kaluga is a Russian city located southwest of Moscow on the Oka River that serves as the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, a region in western Russia. With a population of over 337,000 people as of 2021, it is a significant urban center in the area.

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Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census: 324698
Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census_rank: 55th
Russian inhabited locality.established_date: 1371
Russian inhabited locality.established_title: First mentioned
Russian inhabited locality.postal_codes: 248xxx
Russian inhabited locality.dialing_codes: 4842
Russian inhabited locality.website: https://www.kaluga-gov.ru
Russian inhabited locality.pushpin_map: Russia Kaluga Oblast#Russia#European Russia#Europe
Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Kaluga
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Калуга
Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline: Kaluga city, nowadays (collage).jpg
Russian inhabited locality.image_caption: Space museum, Rocket Vostok, House store of Rakov, Kaluga from a birds-eye view, Trolleybus, corner of Moskovskaya and Dostoyevskogo st.
Russian inhabited locality.image_flag: Flag of Kaluga.svg
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa: Coat of Arms of Kaluga.svg
Russian inhabited locality.holiday: Second Saturday of September
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Kaluga Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_inhabloc_jur: City of Kaluga
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1: Kaluga Oblast

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History
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Administrative and municipal status
Economy
Transportation
Climate
Notable people
Twin towns – sister cities
Partner cities
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Kaluga (, ) is a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, Russia. It stands on the Oka River southwest of Moscow. Its population was 337,058 at the 2021 census.

Kaluga's most famous resident, the space travel pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, worked there as a school teacher from 1892 to 1935. The Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga is dedicated to his theoretical achievements and to their practical implementations for modern space research, hence the motto on the city's coat of arms: , Kolybélʹ kosmonávtiki ("The Cradle of Space-Exploration").

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