Kaluga
Kaluga is the capital of Kaluga Oblast, with a population of some 340,000, known as the "Russian Cradle of Space Exploration".| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kaluga.2012, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Kaluga.2012, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 334,000 residents
- Description: town and administrative center of Kaluga Oblast in central Russia
- Also known as: “Kalyga”
Photo: Cyrios, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Soul Train, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Svetlov Artem, CC BY 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Space History Museum and Tsiolkovsky memorial house (Kaluga).
Space History Museum
Museum
Photo: Errabee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration.
Tsiolkovsky memorial house (Kaluga)
Museum
Photo: NVO, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tsiolkovsky memorial house (Kaluga) is a museum.
Kaluga Regional Drama Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Борис Мавлютов, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kaluga Regional Drama Theatre is a Russian theatre in Kaluga. One of the oldest operating drama theaters of Russia.
Kaluga
- Categories: city or town, big city, and locality
- Location: Kaluga Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.5101° or 54° 30′ 36″ northLongitude
36.2598° or 36° 15′ 35″ eastPopulation
334,000Elevation
208 metres (682 feet)Inception
1371IATA airport code
KLFUnited Nations Location Code
RU KLFOpen location code
9G6RG765+2WOpenStreetMap ID
node 246459003OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kaluga” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kaloega”
- Arabic: “كالوغا”
- Armenian: “Կալուգա”
- Asturian: “Kaluga”
- Azerbaijani: “Kaluqa”
- Bashkir: “Калуга”
- Basque: “Kaluga”
- Belarusian: “Калуга”
- Bengali: “কালুগা”
- Bulgarian: “Калуга”
- Catalan: “Kaluga”
- Cebuano: “Kaluga”
- Chechen: “Калуга”
- Chinese: “卡卢加”
- Chinese: “卡盧加”
- Chuvash: “Калуга”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kaluga”
- Croatian: “Kaluga”
- Czech: “Kaluga”
- Danish: “Kaluga”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kaluga”
- Dutch: “Kaloega”
- Eastern Mari: “Калуга”
- Eastern Mari: “Калуго”
- Erzya: “Калуга ош”
- Esperanto: “Kaluga”
- Estonian: “Kaluga”
- Finnish: “Kaluga”
- French: “Kalouga”
- Galician: “Kaluga”
- Georgian: “კალუგა”
- German: “Kaluga”
- Greek: “Καλούγκα”
- Gujarati: “કાલુગા”
- Hebrew: “קלוגה”
- Hindi: “कालूगा”
- Hungarian: “Kaluga”
- Ido: “Kaluga”
- Inari Sami: “Kaluga”
- Indonesian: “Kaluga”
- Interlingue: “Kaluga”
- Irish: “Kaluga”
- Italian: “Kaluga”
- Japanese: “カルーガ”
- Kannada: “ಕಲೂಗಾ”
- Kirghiz: “Калуга”
- Komi: “Калуга”
- Korean: “칼루가”
- Ladin: “Kaluga”
- Latin: “Caluga”
- Latvian: “Kaluga”
- Lithuanian: “Kaluga”
- Luxembourgish: “Kaluga”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Kaluga”
- Macedonian: “Калуга”
- Malagasy: “Kaluga”
- Malay: “Kaluga”
- Maltese: “Kaluga”
- Marathi: “कालुगा”
- Mingrelian: “კალუგა”
- Moksha: “Калуга”
- Mongolian: “Калуга”
- Northern Frisian: “Kaluga (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Kaluga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaluga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaluga”
- Norwegian: “Kaluga”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kaluga”
- Ossetian: “Калугæ”
- Persian: “کالوگا”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kaluga”
- Polish: “Kaługa”
- Portuguese: “Kaluga”
- Pushto: “کالوګا”
- Romanian: “Kaluga”
- Russian: “Калуга”
- Russian: “Калу́га”
- Scots: “Kaluga”
- Serbian: “Калуга”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kaluga”
- Sicilian: “Kaluga”
- Silesian: “Kaługa”
- Sinhala: “කලුගා”
- Slovak: “Kaluga”
- Slovenian: “Kaluga”
- South Azerbaijani: “کالوقا، روسیه”
- South Azerbaijani: “کالوقا”
- Spanish: “Kaluga”
- Swahili: “Kaluga”
- Swedish: “Kaluga”
- Tagalog: “Kaluga”
- Tajik: “Калуга”
- Tajik: “Колуго”
- Talysh: “Kaluga”
- Talysh: “Kaluqa”
- Tamil: “கலுகா”
- Tatar: “Калуга”
- Telugu: “కలుగా”
- Thai: “คาลูกา”
- Turkish: “Kaluga”
- Twi: “Kaluga”
- Udmurt: “Калуга”
- Ukrainian: “Калуга”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kaluga”
- Urdu: “کالوگا”
- Uzbek: “Kaluga”
- Veps: “Kalug”
- Vietnamese: “Kaluga”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kaluga”
- Welsh: “Kaluga”
- Western Frisian: “Kalûga”
- Western Panjabi: “کلوگا”
- Wu Chinese: “卡卢加”
- Yue Chinese: “卡盧加”
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