Kaluga - Kaluga

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Kaluga
OblastKaluga
Residents
341.892 (2017)
height
190 m
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Kaluga

Kaluga (Russian: Калу́га) is a russian City on the Oka. It is the capital of the oblast Kaluga and is located about 190 km southwest of Moscow.

background

The city of Kaluga originated in the 14th century as a border fortress of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Under the tsar Peter I. Several factories emerged and the city developed into a trading city. End of the 19th century. founded K. E. Ziolkowski a physics institute, he started building simple rockets. A few decades later that was sputnik the first artificial satellite, and the city of Kaluga has been known as the “cradle of Russian cosmonautics” ever since.

Kaluga developed into a research and industrial location after the Second World War. The settlement of several automobile companies has also contributed to this. Are to be mentioned VW, Renault and Mitsubishi and suppliers like Continental.

getting there

By plane

  • 1 Kaluga "(Grabtsevo)Kaluga Kaluga Kaluga (IATA: KLF): regional airport, mostly charter.

By train

  • 2  Kaluga 1 (Вокзал «Калуга-1») Kaluga 1 in the Wikipedia encyclopediaKaluga 1 in the Wikimedia Commons media directoryKaluga 1 (Q4210370) in the Wikidata database
  • 3  Kaluga 2 (Вокзал «Калуга-2») Kaluga 2 in the Wikipedia encyclopediaKaluga 2 in the Wikimedia Commons media directoryKaluga 2 (Q4210373) in the Wikidata database

By bus

In the street

  • Kaluga is on the M3, it comes from Moscow (190 km) and continues to follow Bryansk (200 km).
  • The Р133 connects Kaluga with Tula (100 km).

By boat

mobility

Map of Kaluga

Tourist Attractions

Gostinny Dwor
Kosmas and Damian
  • 1  State Museum of Cosmonautics (Государственный музей истории космонавтики имени К. Э. Иолковского). State Museum of Cosmonautics in the Wikipedia encyclopediaState Museum of Cosmonautics in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsState Museum of Cosmonautics (Q4146892) in the Wikidata database.named after K.E. Ziolkowski. Kaluga is known as the "cradle of Russian space travel".
  • 2  Carrier sheet «Восток», л. Академика Королева, 2. Carrier sheet «Восток» in the encyclopedia WikipediaCarrier “Восток” in the media directory Wikimedia Commons.On June 21, 1973, in the K.E. Tsiolkovsky Park named the duplicate of a real "Vostok" missile with a size of 38 m placed near the Cosmonaut Museum.
  • 3  Stone bridge over the Berezuiska gorge (Каменный мост (Калуга)). Stone bridge over the Berezuiska Gorge in the Wikipedia encyclopediaStone bridge over the Berezuiska Gorge in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsStone bridge over the Berezuiska Gorge (Q4211282) in the Wikidata database.The bridge was built in 1777 in the classical style. It is 160 m long, up to 20 m high and consists of 150 stone arches.
  • 4  Гостиный Двор (Gostinny Dwor) (Lenin Street). 18th century building,
  • 5  Church of Kosmas and Damian
  • 6  Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God (Храм Тихвинской иконы в Козлово, erected in 1886)
  • 7  Fine Arts Museum (Калужский музей изобразительных искусств) Museum of Fine Arts in the Wikipedia encyclopediaMuseum of Fine Arts in the Wikimedia Commons media directoryMuseum of Fine Arts (Q24703419) in the Wikidata databaseMuseum of Fine Arts on FacebookMuseum of Fine Arts on Instagram
  • 8  Historical Museum Kaluga (Калужский областной краеведческий музей, Local history museum) Historical Museum Kaluga in the encyclopedia WikipediaKaluga Historical Museum in the Wikimedia Commons media directoryKaluga History Museum (Q32362763) in the Wikidata database
  • 9  Памятник 600-летию Калуги (Monument 600 years of Kaluga)

activities

shop

1  Торговый комплекс XXI (Калуга XXI Век), ул. Кирова, 1. E-mail: . Shops, cinema, restaurant.

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health

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