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ABOUT KALUGA

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Museum of the History of Austronautics and Planetarium

Teatralnaya Square and the street

St. Georges Cathedral

Gostiny Dvor

Kamenny Bridge

Monument to the 600th anniversary of Kaluga 

Kaluga is one of the oldest cities in the Russia. It is more than 600 years old. The founding date of the city is considered to be 1371.
Kaluga is the administrative center of the Kaluga Region of the Russian Federation.
The city of Kaluga is located in the center of the European part of Russia, southwest of Moscow. Kaluga is a major transport hub.
Travel time from Moscow:
by car-up to 2 hours
by high-speed train-2.5 hours
by bus-2.5 hours
There is an airfield capable of receiving transport and passenger planes and helicopters of any type.
The population of Kaluga: about 400 thousand people
Kaluga's economy:
The basis of the city's economy is the automotive industry, mechanical engineering and metalworking, food and light industry, electric power industry, construction materials industry. Industrial production holds a leading place in the structure of the economic complex of the Kaluga region. The city of Kaluga is characterized by the functions of a regional center with the highest industrial potential in the region.
Kaluga's attractions:
Kaluga's attractions are cosmonautics, merchant city architecture and Russian old churches. Those who are interested in these themes must go here. Kaluga is often called the cradle of astronautics, its name is closely associated with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the founder of space flights. He lived here most of his life. In 1967, the State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics was opened, the first in the world and the largest in Russia, created with the direct participation of Sergei Korolev, Yuri Gagarin and other cosmonauts of the USSR.