Kaluga
Sign in to saveKaluga (, ) 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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Key facts
- 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
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- History
- Demographics
- Administrative and municipal status
- Economy
- Transportation
- Climate
- Notable people
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Partner cities
- Gallery
- References
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- External links
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").